Abstract
Over the past decade, there have been increasing attempts to integrate robotic harvesting technology into agricultural scenarios to reduce growing labour costs and increase crop yields. In this paper, we demonstrate a prototype harvesting robot for picking watermelons in greenhouses. For robotic harvesting, we design a dedicated end-effector for grasping fruits and shearing pedicels, which mainly consists of a flexible gripper and a cutting device. The improved YOLOv5s–CBAM is employed to locate the watermelon fruits with 89.8% accuracy on the test dataset, while the K-means method is used to further refine the segmentation of the watermelon point cloud in the region of interest. Then, the ellipsoid is fitted with the segmented fruit point cloud to obtain the lowest point of the ellipsoid as the grasping point. A series of tests conducted in a laboratory simulation scenario proved that the overall harvesting success rate was 93.3% with a positioning error of 8.7 mm when the watermelon was unobstructed. The overall harvesting success rate was 85.0% with a positioning error of 14.6 mm when the watermelon was partially obscured by leaves.
Funder
the National key R&D Program of China
Subject
Agronomy and Crop Science
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