DEVELOPING AUTOMATED ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR MUSHROOM HARVESTING

The objective of this proposal is to significantly improve mushroom monitoring and automate harvesting via real-time data collection using Internet of Things (IoT), image and LiDAR data analysis, Machine Learning (ML), robotics, automation, and control. There are 3 objectives: 1) Develop an IoT-based system and image processing algorithms for mushroom monitoring, prediction, and harvesting; 2) Develop a robotic mushroom harvesting system to pick mushrooms and categorize them based on quality; and 3) Integrate and validate the IoT robotic harvesting system.