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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Zhu, T., Miao, Z., Zhao, C., Chen, L. and Xiong, Y. (2025) ‘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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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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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Preprints & Working Papers

  1. 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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  2. Zhao, Q., Ge, Y., Zhao, H. and Xiong, Y. ‘Active Obstacle Separation: Vision-Language Model (VLM) Driven Clearing Decisions for Robotic Harvesting’, SSRN Electronic Journal.
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  3. Ge, Y., Zhao, Q., Sun, M., Zhao, H. and Xiong, Y. ‘Occlusion-Aware Harvesting Sequence Planning for Strawberries in Clusters Using Large Language and Vision-Language Models’, SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Patents

  1. 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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  2. 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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  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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