Seminar: Autonomous Soft Fruit Harvesting: Challenges and Lessons, 27th May, 1p

When: Thursday 27th of May, 1pm AEST

Where: This seminar will be presented at the Rose Street Seminar area (J04) and also streamed online, RSVP here.

Speaker: Jasper Brown

Title: Autonomous Soft Fruit Harvesting: Challenges and Lessons

Abstract:
Autonomous harvesting has been demonstrated for many tree crop varieties, with some even at the point of commercialisation. However less common crops, such as plums, remain unaddressed. Plums are a type of soft fruit, and as such require careful motion planning to avoid scratches and stem pull out, which is complicated by mixed hard and soft obstacles. This results in a range of robotics challenges when adapting existing harvesting techniques to soft fruit. In this seminar I will present some of the approaches taken and lessons learned when building and testing a robotic fruit harvesting development platform which must overcome these challenges.

Bio:
Jasper received a Bachelor degree in Mechatronic Engineering (Hons 1) from the University of Sydney, Australia. He is currently a final stage PhD student at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics where his research interests include robotic crop interaction and grasping, active perception, and machine learning within agriculture.