State-of-the-art robotic grippers, gras** and control strategies, as well as their applications in agricultural robots: A review

B Zhang, Y **, carrying and placing of objects are the fundamental capabilities and common
operations for robots and robotic manipulators. Grippers are the most essential components …

Intelligent robots for fruit harvesting: Recent developments and future challenges

H Zhou, X Wang, W Au, H Kang, C Chen - Precision Agriculture, 2022 - Springer
Intelligent robots for fruit harvesting have been actively developed over the past decades to
bridge the increasing gap between feeding a rapidly growing population and limited labour …

Soft grippers for automatic crop harvesting: A review

E Navas, R Fernández, D Sepúlveda, M Armada… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agriculture 4.0 is transforming farming livelihoods thanks to the development and adoption
of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and robotics, traditionally …

Agricultural robots for field operations: Concepts and components

A Bechar, C Vigneault - Biosystems Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
This review investigates the research effort, developments and innovation in agricultural
robots for field operations, and the associated concepts, principles, limitations and gaps …

Machine vision systems in precision agriculture for crop farming

E Mavridou, E Vrochidou, GA Papakostas, T Pachidis… - Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Machine vision for precision agriculture has attracted considerable research interest in
recent years. The aim of this paper is to review the most recent work in the application of …

Harvesting robots for high‐value crops: State‐of‐the‐art review and challenges ahead

CW Bac, EJ Van Henten, J Hemming… - Journal of field …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This review article analyzes state‐of‐the‐art and future perspectives for harvesting robots in
high‐value crops. The objectives were to characterize the crop environment relevant for …

Agricultural robots for field operations. Part 2: Operations and systems

A Bechar, C Vigneault - Biosystems engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
This part of our review of the research, developments and innovation in agricultural robots
for field operations, focuses on characteristics, performance measures, agricultural tasks …

Design and control of an apple harvesting robot

Z De-An, L Jidong, J Wei, Z Ying, C Yu - Biosystems engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
A robotic device consisting of a manipulator, end-effector and image-based vision servo
control system was developed for harvesting apple. The manipulator with 5 DOF PRRRP …

Robots in agriculture: State of art and practical experiences

JJ Roldán, J del Cerro, D Garzón-Ramos… - Service …, 2018 - books.google.com
The presence of robots in agriculture has grown significantly in recent years, overcoming
some of the challenges and complications of this field. This chapter aims to collect a …

Vision-based control of robotic manipulator for citrus harvesting

SS Mehta, TF Burks - Computers and electronics in agriculture, 2014 - Elsevier
The main contribution of this paper is in the development of vision-based estimation and
control system for robotic fruit harvesting and rigorous stability analysis to guarantee …