A Review on Apple Detection Methods for Harvesting Robot

Abstract

Nowadays robot is used to harvest fruit from trees.One major difficulty in developing system for selectively harvest fruits is to define the location, size and ripeness of individual fruits. These provisions are required to guide a mechanical arm towards the object. The computer vision approaches used to recognize a fruit depends on four basic features i.e. intensity, colour, shape and texture. In this paper, a review of different approaches to recognize and locate the apples is presented.