Trends in Robotic Sensor Technologies for Fruit Harvesting: 2010-2015

Zujevs, Andrejs; Osadčuks, Vitālijs; Ahrendt, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2015.12.378

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“…The literature contains some proposals to automatize these tasks [34][35][36]. These proposals consider different types of robots (ground mobile and rail robots), sensors (mainly, RGB and 3D cameras and laser scanners) and effectors (manipulators and graspers).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Robots in Agriculture: State of Art and Practical Experiences

Roldán¹,

Cerro²,

Garzón‐Ramos³

et al. 2018

Service Robots

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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 complete and recent state of the art about the application of robots in agriculture. The work addresses this topic from two perspectives. On the one hand, it involves the disciplines that lead the automation of agriculture, such as precision agriculture and greenhouse farming, and collects the proposals for automatizing tasks like planting and harvesting, environmental monitoring and crop inspection and treatment. On the other hand, it compiles and analyses the robots that are proposed to accomplish these tasks: e.g. manipulators, ground vehicles and aerial robots. Additionally, the chapter reports with more detail some practical experiences about the application of robot teams to crop inspection and treatment in outdoor agriculture, as well as to environmental monitoring in greenhouse farming.

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“…In Ref. [36], the authors review the modern sensor systems used in semi or fully automated robotic harvesting. Their research shows how the integration of several kinds of technologies and sensor fusion can improve the precision in fruit recognition and localization activities.…”

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Robots in Agriculture: State of Art and Practical Experiences

Roldán¹,

Cerro²,

Garzón‐Ramos³

et al. 2018

Service Robots

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“…Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) as an important part of ITS can effectively reduce the risk of workers in hazardous operations [6], help increase production efficiency and deal with the lack of labor due to the aging of the population [7]. A variety of agricultural robots, including grazing [8], farmingfarming [9], fruit [10] collection, and sorting [11] robots, have been applied.…”

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confidence: 99%

Efficiency Analysis and Improvement of an Intelligent Transportation System for the Application in Greenhouse

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In view of the future lack of human resources due to the aging of the population, the automatic, Intelligent Mechatronic Systems (IMSs) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) have broad application prospects. However, complex application scenarios and limited open design resources make designing highly efficient ITS systems still a challenging task. In this paper, the optimal load factor solving solution is established. By converting the three user requirements including working distance, time and load into load-related factors, the optimal result can be obtained among system complexity, efficiency and system energy consumption. A specialized visual navigation and motion control system has been proposed to simplify the path planning, navigation and motion control processes and to be accurately calculated in advance, thereby further improving the efficiency of the ITS system. The validity of the efficiency calculation formula and navigation control method proposed in this paper is verified. Under optimal conditions, the actual working mileage is expected to be 99.7%, and the energy consumption is 83.5% of the expected value, which provides sufficient redundancy for the system. In addition, the individual ITS reaches the rated operating efficiency of 95.86%; in other words, one ITS has twice the ability of a single worker. This proves the accuracy and efficiency of the designed ITS system.

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“…Similarly, various sensors have been developed for automation in agricultural industrialization. (6) In the automatic production of agricultural products, it is considered very important to measure the moisture status of crops and soil, and conventionally, various systems for measuring soil moisture have been developed. (7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12) As described above, the technology for measuring the water condition has become one of the very important issues as industrialization and automation spread in various fields.…”

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confidence: 99%

Pursuing a Possibility of Fabricating Moisture Measurement Devices Using Microwaves Passing through Materials ?Proposition of Measuring Quantity of Water Level Using Microwaves Passing through the Water Tank as the First Step of Development?

Akimoto¹,

Maruyama²,

Miyagawa³

et al. 2019

Sensors and Materials

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In recent years, an increasing number of sensors are being required in various industrial or automated production techniques. In particular, the need for moisture measurement is high, but a noncontact high-precision moisture sensor has not been put to practical use. Therefore, in this research, we focused on a moisture sensor that transmits microwaves and tested two methods for evaluation and verification. In the experiment, the water in the water tank was measured using radio waves of 2.4 GHz. As a result, although measurement could not be performed with high accuracy using the received signal strength, measurement using the propagation delay time was highly accurate. This result will provide an index for the application of moisture sensors using microwaves in the future.

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Trends in Robotic Sensor Technologies for Fruit Harvesting: 2010-2015

Cited by 52 publications

References 35 publications

Robots in Agriculture: State of Art and Practical Experiences

Robots in Agriculture: State of Art and Practical Experiences

Efficiency Analysis and Improvement of an Intelligent Transportation System for the Application in Greenhouse

Pursuing a Possibility of Fabricating Moisture Measurement Devices Using Microwaves Passing through Materials ?Proposition of Measuring Quantity of Water Level Using Microwaves Passing through the Water Tank as the First Step of Development?

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