Autonomous fruit harvester with machine vision

• Main Authors: Almendral, Kathleen Anne M., Babaran, Rona Mae G., Carzon, Bryan Jones C., Cu, Karl Patrick K., Lalanto, Jasmine M., Abad, Alexander C.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Harvesting—Computer programs; Robot vision; Electrical and Electronics; Systems and Communications
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/3259
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study presents an autonomous fruit harvester with a machine vision capable of detecting and picking or cutting an orange fruit from a tree. The system of is composed of a six-degrees of freedom (6-DOF) robotic arm mounted on a four-wheeled electric kart. The kart uses ZED stereo camera for dept...