Autonomous Sweet Pepper Harvesting for Protected Cropping Systems

Autor: Lehnert, Chris, English, Andrew, McCool, Chris, Tow, Adam, Perez, Tristan
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 872-879, April 2017. doi: 10.1109/LRA.2017.2655622
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2017.2655622
Popis: In this letter, we present a new robotic harvester (Harvey) that can autonomously harvest sweet pepper in protected cropping environments. Our approach combines effective vision algorithms with a novel end-effector design to enable successful harvesting of sweet peppers. Initial field trials in protected cropping environments, with two cultivar, demonstrate the efficacy of this approach achieving a 46% success rate for unmodified crop, and 58% for modified crop. Furthermore, for the more favourable cultivar we were also able to detach 90% of sweet peppers, indicating that improvements in the grasping success rate would result in greatly improved harvesting performance.
Databáze: arXiv