Design of automatic strawberry harvest robot suitable in complex environments

Abstract

Strawberries are an important cash crop that are grown worldwide. They are also a labour-intensive crop, with harvesting a particularly labour-intensive task because the fruit needs careful handling. This project investigates collaborative human-robot strawberry harvesting, where interacting with a human potentially increases the adaptability of a robot to work in more complex environments. The project mainly concentrates on two aspects of the problem: the identification of the fruit and the picking of the fruit.