Autonomous apple picking

This project is working on the design and development of an autonomous apple harvesting robot with three main subsystems -an unmanned autonomous mobile platform that navigates around a farm, a deep-learning-based apple recognition system that captures the position of the apple, and a mechanical system that uses an adaptive gripper to handle different sized and shaped fruits, as well as the capability to pick an apple off a tree without causing any damage. Research into new parallel mechanisms for this application is also being explored. This project is supported by ARC Nanocomm Hub and Thor Tech.