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A vision-based robotic system for precision pollination of apples
Uddhav Bhattarai, Ranjan Sapkota, Safal Kshetri +4
Global food production depends upon successful pollination, a process that relies on natural and managed pollinators. However, natural pollinators are declining due to factors such…
AgRegNet: A Deep Regression Network for Flower and Fruit Density Estimation, Localization, and Counting in Orchards
Uddhav Bhattarai, Santosh Bhusal, Qin Zhang +1
One of the major challenges for the agricultural industry today is the uncertainty in manual labor availability and the associated cost. Automated flower and fruit density estimati…
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…
Machine Vision System for Early-stage Apple Flowers and Flower Clusters Detection for Precision Thinning and Pollination
Salik Ram Khanal, Ranjan Sapkota, Dawood Ahmed +2
Early-stage identification of fruit flowers that are in both opened and unopened condition in an orchard environment is significant information to perform crop load management oper…
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…