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Robotic Pollination of Apples in Commercial Orchards
Ranjan Sapkota, Dawood Ahmed, Salik Ram Khanal +4
This research presents a novel, robotic pollination system designed for targeted pollination of apple flowers in modern fruiting wall orchards. Developed in response to the challen…
Design, Modeling, and Control of a Low-Cost and Rapid Response Soft-Growing Manipulator for Orchard Operations
Ryan Dorosh, Justin Allen, Zixuan He +10
Tree fruit growers around the world are facing labor shortages for critical operations, including harvest and pruning. There is a great interest in developing robotic solutions for…
Machine Vision-Based Crop-Load Estimation Using YOLOv8
Dawood Ahmed, Ranjan Sapkota, Martin Churuvija +1
Labor shortages in fruit crop production have prompted the development of mechanized and automated machines as alternatives to labor-intensive orchard operations such as harvesting…
Design, Integration, and Field Evaluation of a Robotic Blossom Thinning System for Tree Fruit Crops
Uddhav Bhattarai, Qin Zhang, Manoj Karkee
The US apple industry relies heavily on semi-skilled manual labor force for essential field operations such as training, pruning, blossom and green fruit thinning, and harvesting.…
An autonomous robot for pruning modern, planar fruit trees
Alexander You, Nidhi Parayil, Josyula Gopala Krishna +7
Dormant pruning of fruit trees is an important task for maintaining tree health and ensuring high-quality fruit. Due to decreasing labor availability, pruning is a prime candidate…
The Use of Agricultural Robots in Orchard Management
Qin Zhang, Manoj Karkee, Amy Tabb
Book chapter that summarizes recent research on agricultural robotics in orchard management, including Robotic pruning, Robotic thinning, Robotic spraying, Robotic harvesting, Robo…