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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…
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…
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…
Design of Stickbug: a Six-Armed Precision Pollination Robot
Trevor Smith, Madhav Rijal, Christopher Tatsch +6
This work presents the design of Stickbug, a six-armed, multi-agent, precision pollination robot that combines the accuracy of single-agent systems with swarm parallelization in gr…