Towards Automated Strawberry Harvesting: Identifying the Picking Point

TY - CHAP

T1 - Towards Automated Strawberry Harvesting

T2 - Identifying the Picking Point

AU - Huang, Zhuoling

AU - Wane, Sam

AU - Parsons, Simon

PY - 2017/7/20

Y1 - 2017/7/20

N2 - With the decline of rural populations across the globe, much hope is vested in the use of robots in agriculture as a means to sustain food production. This is particularly relevant for high-value crops, such as strawberries, where harvesting is currently very labour-intensive. As part of a larger project to build a robot that is capable of harvesting strawberries, we have studied the identification of the picking point of strawberries—the point that a robot hand should grasp the strawberry—from images of strawberries. We present a novel approach to identify the picking point and evaluate this approach.

AB - With the decline of rural populations across the globe, much hope is vested in the use of robots in agriculture as a means to sustain food production. This is particularly relevant for high-value crops, such as strawberries, where harvesting is currently very labour-intensive. As part of a larger project to build a robot that is capable of harvesting strawberries, we have studied the identification of the picking point of strawberries—the point that a robot hand should grasp the strawberry—from images of strawberries. We present a novel approach to identify the picking point and evaluate this approach.

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-64107-2 18

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-64107-2 18

M3 - Conference paper

SN - 978-3-319-64106-5

SP - 222

EP - 236

BT - Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

PB - Springer‐Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

ER -