4 papers
Tree-SLAM: semantic object SLAM for efficient mapping of individual trees in orchards
David Rapado-Rincon, Gert Kootstra
Accurate mapping of individual trees is an important component for precision agriculture in orchards, as it allows autonomous robots to perform tasks like targeted operations or in…
MOT-DETR: 3D Single Shot Detection and Tracking with Transformers to build 3D representations for Agro-Food Robots
David Rapado-Rincon, Henk Nap, Katarina Smolenova +2
In the current demand for automation in the agro-food industry, accurately detecting and localizing relevant objects in 3D is essential for successful robotic operations. However,…
MinkSORT: A 3D deep feature extractor using sparse convolutions to improve 3D multi-object tracking in greenhouse tomato plants
David Rapado-Rincon, Eldert J. van Henten, Gert Kootstra
The agro-food industry is turning to robots to address the challenge of labour shortage. However, agro-food environments pose difficulties for robots due to high variation and occl…
Semantics-Aware Next-best-view Planning for Efficient Search and Detection of Task-relevant Plant Parts
Akshay K. Burusa, Joost Scholten, David Rapado Rincon +3
Searching and detecting the task-relevant parts of plants is important to automate harvesting and de-leafing of tomato plants using robots. This is challenging due to high levels o…