4 papers
Modeling Branches for Active Manipulation using Iterative Parameter Estimation
Madhav Rijal, Rashik Shrestha, Trevor Smith +1
This study presents a method for modeling diverse plant branches by iteratively estimating material parameters to support delicate branch manipulation. Branch manipulation is neces…
FloPE: Flower Pose Estimation for Precision Pollination
Rashik Shrestha, Madhav Rijal, Trevor Smith +1
This study presents Flower Pose Estimation (FloPE), a real-time flower pose estimation framework for computationally constrained robotic pollination systems. Robotic pollination ha…
Robust Flower Cluster Matching Using The Unscented Transform
Andy Chu, Rashik Shrestha, Yu Gu +1
Monitoring flowers over time is essential for precision robotic pollination in agriculture. To accomplish this, a continuous spatial-temporal observation of plant growth can be don…
Force Aware Branch Manipulation To Assist Agricultural Tasks
Madhav Rijal, Rashik Shrestha, Trevor Smith +1
This study presents a methodology to safely manipulate branches to aid various agricultural tasks. Humans in a real agricultural environment often manipulate branches to perform ag…