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Rohit Menon

4 accepted papers

2024

HortiBot: An Adaptive Multi-Arm System for Robotic Horticulture of Sweet Peppers

IROS 2024poster

Horticultural tasks such as pruning and selective harvesting are labor intensive and horticultural staff are hard to find. Automating these tasks is challenging due to the semi-structured greenhouse workspaces, changing environmental conditions such as lighting, dense plant growth with many occlusio…

Cited by 8SourceScholar
2023

Graph-Based View Motion Planning for Fruit Detection

IROS 2023poster

Crop monitoring is crucial for maximizing agricultural productivity and efficiency. However, monitoring large and complex structures such as sweet pepper plants presents significant challenges, especially due to frequent occlusions of the fruits. Traditional next-best view planning can lead to unstr…

Cited by 13SourcecodeScholar
2023

NBV-SC: Next Best View Planning Based on Shape Completion for Fruit Mapping and Reconstruction

IROS 2023poster

Active perception for fruit mapping and harvesting is a difficult task since occlusions occur frequently and the location as well as size of fruits change over time. State-of-the-art viewpoint planning approaches utilize computationally expensive ray casting operations to find good viewpoints aiming…

Cited by 26SourceScholar
2023

Viewpoint Push Planning for Mapping of Unknown Confined Spaces

IROS 2023poster

Viewpoint planning is an important task in any application where objects or scenes need to be viewed from different angles to achieve sufficient coverage. The mapping of confined spaces such as shelves is an especially challenging task since objects occlude each other and the scene can only be obser…

Cited by 8SourcecodeScholar