5 accepted papers
In this paper, a novel prototype for harvesting table-top grown strawberries is presented, that is minimalist in its footprint interacting with the fruit. In our methodology, a smooth trapper manipulates the stem into a precise groove location at which a distant laser beam is focused. The tool reach
In this paper, a novel prototype for hanging produce harvesting is presented, that is productive, versatile, and robust. In our methodology, the robot-mounted tube approaches, and eventually surrounds the produce of interest at the entry side, that can be as small as the produce diameter, plus a sma…
In this paper, we present a novel grasp planning algorithm for unknown objects given a registered point cloud of the target from different views. The proposed methodology requires no prior knowledge of the object, nor offline learning. In our approach, the gripper kinematic model is used to generate…
Steerable wheeled mobile robots are able to perform arbitrary three-dimensional (3-D) planar trajectories, only after initializing the steer joint vector to the proper values. These robots employ fully steerable conventional wheels. Hence, they have higher load carrying capacity than their holonomic
Non-holonomic omnidirectional mobile robots have higher load carrying capacity than their holonomic counterparts. Once the steer joint configuration is initialized, they can perform arbitrarily complex three-dimensional trajectories in the plane of motion and, as such, are more suitable for industri