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The SWEEPER Project -

Sweet Pepper Harvesting Robot

 

The world's most advanced sweet pepper harvesting robot, developed in a consortium including BGU researchers, was introduced recently at the Research Station for Vegetable Production at St. Katelijne Waver in Belgium.
SWEEPER is designed to operate in a single stem row cropping system, with non-clustered fruits and little leaf occlusion. Preliminary test results showed that by using a commercially available crop modified to mimic the required conditions, the robot currently harvests ripe fruit in 24 seconds with a success rate of 62 percent.

The BGU team spearheaded efforts to improve the robot's ability to detect ripe produce using computer vision, and has played a role in defining the specifications of the robot's hardware and software interfaces, focusing on supervisory control activities.

The BGU team includes Prof. Yael Edan, director of the ABC Robotics Initiative and a member of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management; Prof. Ohad Ben-Shahar of the Department of Computer Science and founding director of the Interdisciplinary Computational Vision Laboratory.

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