Fruit quality control by surface analysis using a bio-inspired soft tactile sensor
Pedro Ribeiro,Susana Cardoso,Alexandre Bernardino,Lorenzo Jamone,Pedro Ribeiro,Susana Cardoso,Alexandre Bernardino,Lorenzo Jamone
The growing consumer demand for large volumes of high quality fruit has generated an increasing need for auto-mated fruit quality control during production. Optical methods have been proved successful in a few cases, but with limitations related to the variability of fruit colors and lighting conditions during tests. Tactile sensing provides a valuable alternative, although it comes with the need ...
