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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.…