Autonomous pollination of individual kiwifruit flowers: Toward a robotic kiwifruit pollinator. Issue 2 (29th January 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Autonomous pollination of individual kiwifruit flowers: Toward a robotic kiwifruit pollinator. Issue 2 (29th January 2019)
- Main Title:
- Autonomous pollination of individual kiwifruit flowers: Toward a robotic kiwifruit pollinator
- Authors:
- Williams, Henry
Nejati, Mahla
Hussein, Salome
Penhall, Nicky
Lim, Jong Yoon
Jones, Mark Hedley
Bell, Jamie
Ahn, Ho Seok
Bradley, Stuart
Schaare, Peter
Martinsen, Paul
Alomar, Mohammad
Patel, Purak
Seabright, Matthew
Duke, Mike
Scarfe, Alistair
MacDonald, Bruce - Other Names:
- Lehnert Chris guestEditor.
McCool Chris guestEditor.
Corke Peter guestEditor.
Sa Inkyu guestEditor.
Stachniss Cyrill guestEditor.
Van Henten Eldert J. guestEditor.
Nieto Juan guestEditor. - Abstract:
- Abstract: There is an increasing concern that the traditional approach of natural kiwifruit pollination by bees may not be sustainable. The alternatives are currently too costly for most growers due to high labor requirements or inefficient usage of expensive pollen. This paper presents a performance evaluation of a novel kiwifruit pollinating robot designed to provide a more efficient, reliable, and cost‐effective means of producing kiwifruit. The robot comprises a novel air‐assisted sprayer, a machine vision system employing convolution neural networks, and a flower targeting system for efficient and effective application of pollen to individual flowers. We show that this pollination system is capable of individually targeting and pollinating 79.5% of flowers at 3.5 km/hr while using comparable amounts of pollen to commercial Cambrian operators. Furthermore, flowers that were successfully pollinated at 1 km/hr grew into the first robotically pollinated kiwifruit which were comparable in quality to commercially grown kiwifruit. However, the overall fruit set was found to be well below commercial requirements and further work on increasing the overall yield is required.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of field robotics. Volume 37:Issue 2(2020)
- Journal:
- Journal of field robotics
- Issue:
- Volume 37:Issue 2(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 37, Issue 2 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0037-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 246
- Page End:
- 262
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-29
- Subjects:
- convolution neural networks -- horticulture -- kiwifruit -- machine vision -- neural networking -- orchards -- pollination -- robotics
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629.892 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1556-4967 ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1002/rob.21861 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1556-4959
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- Legaldeposit
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