Real-time Stereo Visual Servoing for Rose Pruning with Robotic Arm

Hanz Cuevas-Velasquez,Antonio-Javier Gallego,Radim Tylecek,Jochen Hemming,Bart van Tuijl,Angelo Mencarelli,Robert B. Fisher,Hanz Cuevas-Velasquez,Antonio-Javier Gallego,Radim Tylecek,Jochen Hemming,Bart van Tuijl,Angelo Mencarelli,Robert B. Fisher

The paper presents a working pipeline which integrates hardware and software in an automated robotic rose cutter. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first robot able to prune rose bushes in a natural environment. Unlike similar approaches like tree stem cutting, the proposed method does not require to scan the full plant, have multiple cameras around the bush, or assume that a stem does not...