A Tactile-enabled Grasping Method for Robotic Fruit Harvesting

10/18/2021
by   Hongyu Zhou, et al.
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In the robotic crop harvesting environment, foreign objects intrusion in the gripper workspace is frequently occurring and unignorable, however, rarely addressed. This paper presents a novel intelligent robotic grasping method capable of handling obstacle interference, which is the first of its kind in the literature. The proposed method combines deep learning algorithms with low-cost tactile sensing hardware on a multi-DoF soft robotic gripper. Through experimental validations, the proposed method demonstrated promising performance in distinguishing various grasping scenarios. The 4-finger independently controlled gripper presented outstanding adaptability to handle various picking scenarios. The overall performance of this work indicated great potential for solving the robotic fruit harvesting challenges.

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