and harvesting manipulators used in agriculture. Design/methodology/approach A research was performed on papers that … advantageous to obtain a higher reach. The harvesting manipulators were used for three types of fruits: strawberries, tomatoes and …

Purpose A harvesting robot is developed as part of kiwifruit industry automation in New Zealand. This kiwifruit … harvester is currently not economically viable, as it drops and damages too many kiwifruit in the harvesting task due to the … harvesting. Furthermore, the Covid pandemic and resulting border restrictions have dramatically reduced seasonal imported labour …

In standard models of spatial harvesting, the resource is distributed over the complete domain and the agent is able to … control the harvesting activity everywhere all the time. In some cases though, it is more realistic to assume that the …. In this case, the agent faces a combined travelling–and–harvesting problem. We scrutinize this type of a two …

In standard models of spatial harvesting, the resource is distributed over the complete domain and the agent is able to … control the harvesting activity everywhere all the time. In some cases though, it is more realistic to assume that the …. In this case, the agent faces a combined travelling-and-harvesting problem. We scrutinize this type of a two …