Robotics of Fruit Harvesting: A State-of-the-art Review

Sarig, Y.

doi:10.1006/jaer.1993.1020

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“…Other automated solutions studied for specific cultural operations are represented by the work of (Tillet & Hague, 1999) for the automatic hoe control; the works of (Tillet et al, 2002;Åstrand & Baerveldt, 2002) for the inter-row raking and tilling for weed control in sugar beet; the works of Tian et al (1999), Paice et al (1995), Tillet et al (1998) for precision spraying devoted to weed control and crop treatment; the work of Blasco et al (2002) for weed control implemented with electrical discharges. Final fields of study for automated applications in the field are represented by robotic solutions for harvesting, as illustrated by the works of Monta et al (1995), Sarig (1993), Sanders (2005) and Peterson et al (1999), and mapping yield and fruit quality (Quiao et al, 2005). It is worth noting that most studies in literature deal with one specific agricultural operation for which automated solutions are studied and presented.…”

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Robotics for Improving Quality, Safety and Productivity in Intensive Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities

Belforte¹,

Aimonino²

2006

Industrial Robotics: Programming, Simulation and Applications

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Section: State Of the Art Of Robotic Studies In Agriculturementioning

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Robotics for Improving Quality, Safety and Productivity in Intensive Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities

Belforte¹,

Aimonino²

2006

Industrial Robotics: Programming, Simulation and Applications

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“…Robotics has limitations in P&P operations due to the difficulty in achieving gripper solutions capable of manipulating fragile and heterogeneous fresh fruit and vegetables. Sarig (1993) reviewed state-of-the-art of robotics in harvesting, pointing out the necessities to optimize R&D work required for the realization of robotic harvesting. Achievements in fruit and vegetable handling have been found in picking harvesting systems for products such as: strawberries (Hayashi et al, 2010), cucumbers (Van Henten et al, 2009), tomatoes (Monta et al, 1998a,b;Ceccarelli et al, 2000), aubergines (Hayashi et al, 2002), apples (Setiawan et al, 2004), chicories (Foglia and Reina, 2006), and oranges (Muscato et al, 2005).…”

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Review. Technologies for robot grippers in pick and place operations for fresh fruits and vegetables

Blanes

Mellado

Ortíz

et al. 1970

Span. j. agric. res.

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Robotics has been introduced in industry to replace humans in arduous and repetitive tasks, to reduce labour costs and to ensure consistent quality control of the process. Nowadays robots are cheaper, can work in hostile and dirty environments and they are able to manipulate products at high speed. High speed and reliability and low robot gripper costs are necessary for a profitable pick and place (P&P) process. However, current grippers are not able to handle these products properly because they have uneven shapes, are flexible and irregular, have different textures and are very sensitive to being damaged. This review brings together the requirements and phases used in the process of manipulation, summarises and analyses of the existing, potential and emerging techniques and their possibilities for the manipulation of fresh horticultural products from a detailed study of their characteristics. It considers the difficulties and the lack of engineers to conceive of and implement solutions. Contact grippers with underactuated mechanism and suction cups could be a promising approach for the manipulation of fresh fruit and vegetables. Ongoing study is still necessary on the characteristics and handling requirements of fresh fruit and vegetables in order to design grippers which are suitable for correct manipulation, at high speed, in profitable P&P processes for industrial applications.Additional key words: food manipulation; horticulture grasp; postharvest science and technology; robotic product handling. ResumenRevisión. Tecnologías en garras robotizadas para operaciones de coger y dejar productos hortofrutícolas frescos La robótica ha sido introducida en la industria para reemplazar a los humanos en tareas arduas y repetitivas, reducir mano de obra y para asegurar una calidad constante de los procesos. Actualmente los robos son más baratos, capaces de manipular productos a alta velocidad y de trabajar en ambientes hostiles. Por tanto, los robots pueden trabajar en operaciones de "coger y dejar" (pick & place, P&P) con frutas y hortalizas frescas. Para un proceso rentable de P&P, son necesarias una alta velocidad y fiabilidad, así como un bajo coste de los sistemas de agarre. Este artículo de revisión recopila las necesidades y fases empleadas en el proceso de manipulación, reuniendo y analizando las técnicas existentes, potenciales y emergentes y sus posibilidades de aplicación para la manipulación de productos hortofrutícolas frescos a partir del estudio detallado de sus características. Considera las dificultades y la falta de ingenieros para concebir e implementar soluciones. Los autores proponen las alternativas más prometedoras para acometer este difícil problema y consideran la necesidad de seguir estudiando las características de frutas y vegetales frescos y las necesidades de manipulación. Las garras de contacto con mecanismos infra-actuados y ventosas o agarrar el producto sin contacto pueden ser las alternativas más prometedoras para manipular frutas y vegetales frescos. Es necesario continuar e...

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“…While this unfortunate outcome cannot be blamed solely on the failure of machine vision to handle the challenges posed by the unconstrained and unstructured agricultural environment, it is undeniable that successful machine vision is critical for achieving high detection rates of ripe fruit in real time. The challenge of developing a cost-effective robotic system for fruit picking has been taken up by researchers at several places in the world [1][2][3].…”

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A Review on Apple Detection Methods for Harvesting Robot

Joshi¹

2017

IJMUE

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Nowadays robot is used to harvest fruit from trees.One major difficulty in developing system for selectively harvest fruits is to define the location, size and ripeness of individual fruits. These provisions are required to guide a mechanical arm towards the object. The computer vision approaches used to recognize a fruit depends on four basic features i.e. intensity, colour, shape and texture. In this paper, a review of different approaches to recognize and locate the apples is presented.

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Robotics of Fruit Harvesting: A State-of-the-art Review

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Robotics for Improving Quality, Safety and Productivity in Intensive Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities

Robotics for Improving Quality, Safety and Productivity in Intensive Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities

Review. Technologies for robot grippers in pick and place operations for fresh fruits and vegetables

A Review on Apple Detection Methods for Harvesting Robot

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