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most citedAutonomous Sweet Pepper Harvesting for Protected Cropping Systems

266 citations · 431 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.RO2020

A Heteroscedastic Likelihood Model for Two-frame Optical Flow

Timothy Farnworth, Christopher Renton, Reuben Strydom +2

Machine vision is an important sensing technology used in mobile robotic systems. Advancing the autonomy of such systems requires accurate characterisation of sensor uncertainty. V…

cs.RO2018★ 9 cited

A Sweet Pepper Harvesting Robot for Protected Cropping Environments

Chris Lehnert, Chris McCool, Inkyu Sa +1

Using robots to harvest sweet peppers in protected cropping environments has remained unsolved despite considerable effort by the research community over several decades. In this p…

cs.CV2018★ 8 cited

Fruit Quantity and Quality Estimation using a Robotic Vision System

M. Halstead, C. McCool, S. Denman +2

Accurate localisation of crop remains highly challenging in unstructured environments such as farms. Many of the developed systems still rely on the use of hand selected features f…

cs.CV2018★ 23 cited

A Rapidly Deployable Classification System using Visual Data for the Application of Precision Weed Management

David Hall, Feras Dayoub, Tristan Perez +1

In this work we demonstrate a rapidly deployable weed classification system that uses visual data to enable autonomous precision weeding without making prior assumptions about whic…

cs.RO2017

In-Field Peduncle Detection of Sweet Peppers for Robotic Harvesting: a comparative study

Chris Lehnert, Chris McCool, Tristan Perez

Robotic harvesting of crops has the potential to disrupt current agricultural practices. A key element to enabling robotic harvesting is to safely remove the crop from the plant wh…

cs.RO2017★ 1 cited

Lessons Learnt from Field Trials of a Robotic Sweet Pepper Harvester

Christopher Lehnert, Christopher McCool, Tristan Perez

In this paper, we present the lessons learnt during the development of a new robotic harvester (Harvey) that can autonomously harvest sweet pepper (capsicum) in protected cropping…

cs.RO2017★ 266 cited

Autonomous Sweet Pepper Harvesting for Protected Cropping Systems

Chris Lehnert, Andrew English, Chris McCool +2

In this letter, we present a new robotic harvester (Harvey) that can autonomously harvest sweet pepper in protected cropping environments. Our approach combines effective vision al…

cs.RO2017★ 124 cited

Peduncle Detection of Sweet Pepper for Autonomous Crop Harvesting - Combined Colour and 3D Information

Inkyu Sa, Chris Lehnert, Andrew English +4

This paper presents a 3D visual detection method for the challenging task of detecting peduncles of sweet peppers (Capsicum annuum) in the field. Cutting the peduncle cleanly is on…