Next week (27/6-1/7), we will present at theIEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics in Seattle (USA). It is one of the most important conferences on mechatronics and intelligent systems, including robotics, automation, industrial electronics and other relevant areas, and it’s with great honour for the team of authors and the project itself to share that our paper is one of six finalists for the “Best Paper Award”.
Earlier this year, the paper “Low-cost, accurate robotic harvesting system for existing mushroom farms” was submitted by TWI Hellas and the University of Essex and accepted by AIM 2023. The publication was made possible with the meticulous work of Panagiotis Mavridis and Nikos Mavrikis from TWI Hellas and the valuable contributions of the co-authors Athanasions Mastrogeorgiou (TWI Hellas) and Panagiotis Chatzakos (AI Innovation Centre, University of Essex). For the conference, Panagiotis Mavridis and Nikos Mavrikis from TWI Hellas, the paper's main authors, will travel to Seattle and present it on June 28.
To dive deeper into the paper’s focus, the TWI Hellas team has been working on the SoftGrip machine vision system for the effective inspection and detection of white button mushrooms in mushroom farms for the past two and a half years. The system under development aims to offer highly accurate and low-cost services to estimate the mushrooms’ poses with the help of a trained and tested algorithm. This way, the soft grippers responsible for harvesting mushrooms will have all the required information to perform the picking task without affecting the mushrooms’ tender surfaces.
For the full paper, check below:
