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Dispatching and Routing of Robotic Crop-transport Aids for Fruit Pickers using Mixed Integer Programming
Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org
Citation: 2012 Dallas, Texas, July 29 - August 1, 2012 121338247.(doi:10.13031/2013.41895)Authors: Stavros George Vougioukas, Yiannis Spanomitros, David Slaughter
Keywords: Robots, distributed, harvesting, interaction, routing, optimization
Fruit and vegetable harvesting are strongly affected by labor shortages. Prototype robotic harvesters have not yet evolved to commercial products, mainly for technological and economic reasons. An alternative scenario is to reduce the number of required pickers, by increasing each pickers overall efficiency. This could be achieved by utilizing teams of robots that transport the harvested produce to unloading stations, thus reducing or eliminating workers non-productive walking times.
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