REVIEW ARTICLE

Recent Advances in Intelligent Automated Fruit Harvesting Robots

Yanbin Hua1 , * Open Modal , ‡ Open Modal Nairu Zhang1 , ‡ Open Modal Xin Yuan1 , ‡ Open Modal Lichun Quan1 Jiangang Yang1 Ken Nagasaka2 , * Open Modal Xin-Gen Zhou3 , * Open Modal Authors Info & Affiliations
The Open Agriculture Journal 31 Aug 2019 REVIEW ARTICLE DOI: 10.2174/1874331501913010101

Abstract

Robotic harvesting offers a solution to reducing labor costs, optimizing harvest scheduling, enabling selective harvesting, and increasing operation efficiency. These attributes allow the users of robotic harvesters to maximize production efficiency and profits. This article reviews automated fruit harvesting systems of sweet pepper, tomato, apple and kiwifruit as an example to demonstrate the recent advances in intelligent automatic harvesting robots in horticulture.

Keywords: Intelligent, Efficiency, Automated fruit harvesting robot, Kiwifruit, Horticulture, Selective harvesting.
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