Automated Harvesting
Technology Transfer

Patents
U.S. Patent #5,911,669 and international - "Vision-Based Crop Line Tracking for Harvesters”

U.S. Patent #6,336,051 and international - "Agricultural Harvester with Robotic Control”

Publications
T. Pilarski, M. Happold, H. Pangels, M. Ollis, K. Fitzpatrick, and Stentz, A., "The Demeter System for Automated Harvesting,” Proceedings of the 8th International Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, April, 1999.

M. Happold, "Methods for Cropline Following," Technical Report, CMU-RI-TR-00-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2000.

M. Ollis and Stentz, A., "Vision-Based Perception for an Autonomous Harvester," Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotic Systems, Vol. 3, September, 1997, pp. 1838 - 1844.

M. Ollis, "Perception Algorithms for a Harvesting Robot," Doctoral Dissertation, Technical Report, CMU-RI-TR-97-43, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1997.

M. Ollis and Stentz, A., "First Results in Vision-Based Crop Line Tracking," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, April, 1996, pp. 951 - 956.