The SWEEPER harvesting robot was shown last Wednesday, 12th of September 2018, to growers, the industry and researchers at the Research Station for Vegetable Production PSKW at St. Katelijne Waver in Belgium. A large group of almost 50 interested people followed the presentations, after which they could see the robot live in action. There was a lot of interaction between the visitors and the project consortium.
You can watch a short video report from the local TV (RTV) here:
http://www.rtv.be/artikels/proefstation-katelijne-ontwikkelt-paprikaplukrobot-a58955
Material for media and press
- A ZIP file with a collection of high-resolution photos, including the ones shown below, can be downloaded here, These may be used publically by using the reference: “Source: www.sweeper-robot.eu”.
- For videos please see the Videos section of this website.
- Sweeper flyer (PDF)
- Presentations handouts of the PSKW demo
- Introduction (Raf de Vis PSKW and Jos Balendonck, WUR)
- Software, Hardware control, control of the arm (Ola Ringdahl, UMU)
- Fruit detection, Viewpoint analysis, Maturity classification (Polina Kurtser, BGU)
- Cultivar selection, Crop management optimization, Dissemination and exploitation (Liesbet Van Herck, PSKW)
- Testing and evaluation, Pepper cutting tool, Obstacle detection, Economic simulation tool (Jochen Hemming, WUR)
- Robot performance, Sweeper results (Jos Balendonck, Jochen Hemming, WUR)
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