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VISION-GUIDED FLEXIBLE ROBOTS FOR HARVESTING THE INTERIOR OF TREE CROPS

Objective

The goal of this project is to address the technical hurdle on how to harvest crops inside the tree canopywith the following three objectives: 1) Design and develop a novel flexible robot with cameras and necessary harvesting accessories, 2) Design and develop computer vision models to detect and localize harvesting targets and obstacles, and 3) Assess our to be developed technologies in engineered and real-life harvesting environments.

Investigators
Sheng, J.
Institution
The Regents of University of California
Start date
2023
End date
2025
Funding Source
Nat'l. Inst. of Food and Agriculture
Project number
CALW-2022-11471
Accession number
1031001
https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/1031001.html