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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…
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.…