Abstract
AbstractRobotic fruit harvesting requires dexterity to handle delicate crops and development relying upon field testing possible only during the harvesting season. Here we focus on raspberry crops, and explore how the research methodology of harvesting robots can be accelerated through soft robotic technologies. We propose and demonstrate a physical twin of the harvesting environment: a sensorized physical simulator of a raspberry plant with tunable properties, used to train a robotic harvester in the laboratory regardless of season. The sensors on the twin allow for direct comparison with human demonstrations, used to tune the robot controllers. In early field demonstrations, an 80% harvesting success rate was achieved without any modifications on the lab trained robot.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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7 articles.
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