Tomato fruit and pedicel recognition using 3D camera for tomato harvesting robot

Abstract

In this paper, we propose the method of tomato fruit and pedicel recognition method using 3D camera for tomato harvesting robot. Recognition method is constructed by 2 parts; tomato fruits detection and tomato pedicel detection. To avoid detecting stem and pedicel of neighbor fruit, we propose a robust estimation method in pedicel direction calculation. We evaluated the proposed method in the greenhouse with real tomato trees, experimental result shows its robustness.