An autonomous strawberry‐harvesting robot: Design, development, integration, and field evaluation

• Published in: Journal of field robotics Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 202 - 224
• Main Authors: Xiong, Ya, Ge, Yuanyue, Grimstad, Lars, From, Pål J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.03.2020
• Subjects: active obstacle separation; agricultural robotics; Algorithms; Barriers; Berries; cable‐driven gripper; field evaluation; Field tests; Grippers; Harvesting; Luminous intensity; Picking; Robots; Strawberries; strawberry‐harvesting robot; Vision systems

This paper presents an autonomous robot capable of picking strawberries continuously in polytunnels. Robotic harvesting in cluttered and unstructured environment remains a challenge. A novel obstacle‐separation algorithm was proposed to enable the harvesting system to pick strawberries that are loca...