Publications

Welcome to the publications page of the S-H Robotics Lab. Below you can find our peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, preprints, and patents.

Journal Articles

  1. Zhu, T., Miao, Z., Zhao, C., Chen, L. and Xiong, Y. (2024) ‘Five-degree-of-freedom strawberry pose estimation using key points and oriented bounding box detection’, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 239, p. 110974.
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  2. Miao, Z., Chen, Y., Yang, L., Hu, S. and Xiong, Y. (2025) ‘A Fast Path-Planning Method for Continuous Harvesting of Table-Top Grown Strawberries’, IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics.
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  3. Wang, Y., Hu, H., Wu, S. and Xiong, Y. (2025) ‘Enhancing Weeding Efficiency: Addressing Targeting Positional Errors and Key Determinants of Cutting Efficiency in Laser Weeding Robots’, IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics.
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  4. Ji, P., Yang, N., Lin, S. and Xiong, Y. (2025) ‘EDI-YOLO: An Instance Segmentation Network for Tomato Main Stems and Lateral Branches in Greenhouse Environments’, Horticulturae, 11(10), p. 1260.
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  5. Zhu, T., Zhang, W., Miao, Z., Zhao, C. and Xiong, Y. (2025) ‘YOLOv11-SKP: an enhanced model for strawberry bounding box and key point detection in harvesting scenarios’, Engineering Research Express, 7(4), p. 045217.
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  6. Yang, L., Li, H., Lin, S. and Xiong, Y. (2025) ‘High-Tolerance Soft-Rigid Gripper for Low-Damage Robotic Strawberry Harvesting’, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 11(1), pp. 121–128.
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  7. Yang, N., Ji, P., Lin, S. and Xiong, Y. (2025) ‘PHDT-DETR: A Lightweight End-to-End Detector for On-Device Truss Tomato Detection in Greenhouses’, Smart Agricultural Technology, p. 101742.
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  8. Hu, Z., Chen, L. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘Strawberry bruise susceptibility analysis based on discrete element method coupled with finite element simulation’, Postharvest Biology and Technology, 232, p. 113964.
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  9. Hu, S., Sun, M., Zhao, C. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘Calibration-enhanced multi-view RGB-D vision for robust recognition and 3D localization of strawberries under occlusions’, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 241, p. 111221.
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  10. Sun, M., Hu, S., Zhao, C. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘Light-resilient visual regression of strawberry ripeness for robotic harvesting’, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 241, p. 111169.
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  11. Zhao, Q., Ge, Y., Zhao, H. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘Active Obstacle Separation: Vision-Language Model (VLM) Driven Clearing Decisions for Robotic Harvesting’, Smart Agricultural Technology.
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  12. Zhen, J., Ge, Y., Zhu, T., Zhao, H. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘Real-time multi-attribute quality grading of tabletop strawberries under occlusions for harvesting robots’, Smart Agricultural Technology, 14, p. 101960.
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Conference Papers

  1. Chen, Y., Miao, Z., Ge, Y., Lin, S., Chen, L. and Xiong, Y. (2024) ‘Design and Control of a Novel Six-Degree-of-Freedom Hybrid Robotic Arm’, In: 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 3597–3604.
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  2. Zhen, J.#, Ge, Y.#, Zhu, T.#, Zhao, H. and Xiong, Y. (2025) ‘Online Estimation of Table-Top Grown Strawberry Mass in Field Conditions with Occlusions’, In: 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 3040–3047.
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  3. Chen, X.#, Wang, Y.#, Yang, L., Li, H. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘Hybrid Rigid-Soft Robotic Gripper with Shape Adaptation, Uniform Force Distribution, and Self-Locking Capabilities’, In: 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Accepted.

Preprints

  1. Ge, Y.#, Zhao, Q.#, Sun, M., Zhao, H. and Xiong, Y. (2025) ‘Occlusion-Aware Harvesting Sequence Planning for Strawberries in Clusters Using Large Language and Vision-Language Models’, SSRN Electronic Journal.
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  2. Sun, M., Zhao, C., Yang, L., Liu, H., Hu, S. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘Vision-Based Early Fault Diagnosis and Self-Recovery for Strawberry Harvesting Robots’, arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.02085.
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  3. Zhao, Z., Wang, S., Miao, Z. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘HarvestFlex: Strawberry Harvesting via Vision-Language-Action Policy Adaptation in the Wild’, arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.05982.
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Patents

  1. Xiong, Y. and Chen, Y. (2025) ‘Monorail independent dual-slider synchronous belt sliding table module component with compact structure’, US Patent, 12,280,460. Filed: 22 April 2025.
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  2. Xiong, Y. (2025) ‘Harvesting method of snap-off picking gripper, and snap-off harvesting gripper’, US Patent, 12,310,288. Filed: 27 May 2025.
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  3. Xiong, Y., Yang, L., Ge, Y., Lin, S., Li, H. and Chen, L. (2025) ‘Flexible-rigid integrated gripper for harvesting fruits and vegetables in breaking-off manner and harvesting robot’, US Patent, 12,369,526. Filed: 29 July 2025.
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Last updated: March 2026
Total: 12 journal articles • 3 conference papers • 3 preprints • 3 US patents