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- Title
Development of a Visual Servo System for Robotic Fruit Harvesting.
- Authors
Bulanon, Duke M.; Burr, Colton; DeVlieg, Marina; Braddock, Trevor; Allen, Brice
- Abstract
One of the challenges in the future of food production, amidst increasing population and decreasing resources, is developing a sustainable food production system. It is anticipated that robotics will play a significant role in maintaining the food production system, specifically in laborintensive operations. Therefore, the main goal of this project is to develop a robotic fruit harvesting system, initially focused on the harvesting of apples. The robotic harvesting system is composed of a six-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) robotic manipulator, a two-fingered gripper, a color camera, a depth sensor, and a personal computer. This paper details the development and performance of a visual servo system that can be used for fruit harvesting. Initial test evaluations were conducted in an indoor laboratory using plastic fruit and artificial trees. Subsequently, the system was tested outdoors in a commercial fruit orchard. Evaluation parameters included fruit detection performance, response time of the visual servo, and physical time to harvest a fruit. Results of the evaluation showed that the developed visual servo system has the potential to guide the robot for fruit harvesting.
- Subjects
FRUIT harvesting; ROBOTICS; FOOD production; PERSONAL computers; COMPUTER vision
- Publication
AgriEngineering, 2021, Vol 3, Issue 4, p840
- ISSN
2624-7402
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/agriengineering3040053