Rajkishan Arikapudi
University of California, Davis, University of California System
Papers
9
Total Citations
138
H-Index
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About
Rajkishan Arikapudi is a pioneering researcher in agricultural robotics, with a focused specialization in robotic fruit harvesting systems and precision orchard automation. His work addresses one of agriculture's most pressing challenges: mechanizing the labor-intensive manual harvesting of fresh-market crops such as strawberries and tree fruits. Arikapudi has made significant contributions to the design and evaluation of robotic harvesting architectures, most notably through his investigations into telescoping and Cartesian arm systems for tree-fruit harvesting, exploring how geometric constraints and fruit reachability can be optimized without complex multi-degree-of-freedom manipulators. His widely cited 2022 study on strawberry harvest-aiding collaborative robots (39 citations) demonstrated real-world field viability for crop-transport co-robots, directly supporting picker efficiency and reducing physical burden. Complementing this, his research on orchard tree digitization, radio-signal-based fruit localization, and structural-geometric modeling has provided foundational tools for precision harvesting systems. With a cumulative citation record spanning nearly a decade of publications, Arikapudi's body of work offers both theoretical rigor and practical innovation, making him a valuable reference for researchers and engineers working at the intersection of robotics, horticulture, and sustainable food systems.
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- 4A Study of Fruit Reachability in Orchard Trees by Linear-Only Motion16 citations · 2016
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- 6Orchard tree digitization for structural-geometrical modeling10 citations · 2015
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- 8Model-based assessment of robotic fruit harvesting cycle times2 citations · 2014
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