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. Entries within each category are listed newest first.

Journal Articles

  1. Zhu, T., Zhao, C., Miao, Z., Zhang, W. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘Six-DoF Strawberry Harvesting Pose Selection and Adaptive Obstacle Clearing in Occluded Environments’, Advanced Intelligent Systems. Accepted for publication. Acceptance news ↗

  2. Yang, L., Hu, S., Sun, M. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘Harvesting Sequence Optimization for Clustered Strawberries Using a Fruit-Level Harvesting Difficulty Score’, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. Accepted for publication. Acceptance news ↗

  3. 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, 14, p. 102037. DOI ↗

  4. 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. DOI ↗

  5. 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’, Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture. DOI ↗

  6. Yang, N., Ji, P., Lin, S. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘PHDT-DETR: A Lightweight End-to-End Detector for On-Device Truss Tomato Detection in Greenhouses’, Smart Agricultural Technology, p. 101742. DOI ↗

  7. 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. DOI ↗

  8. 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. DOI ↗

  9. 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. DOI ↗

  10. Yang, L., Li, H., Lin, S. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘High-Tolerance Soft-Rigid Gripper for Low-Damage Robotic Strawberry Harvesting’, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 11(1), pp. 121–128. DOI ↗

  11. 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. DOI ↗

  12. 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. DOI ↗

  13. 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. DOI ↗

  14. 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. DOI ↗

  15. 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. DOI ↗

Conference Papers

  1. Li, T., Shi, H., Zhao, C. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘Vision-Based Obstacle Separation for Strawberry Harvesting in Clusters Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning’, In: 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Accepted.

  2. Miao, C., Li, T. and Xiong, Y. (2026) ‘Learning the Full Process of Strawberry Harvesting: A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Obstacle Separation, Detachment, and Placement’, In: 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Accepted.

  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.

  4. 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. DOI ↗

  5. 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. DOI ↗

Preprints & Working Papers

  1. 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. arXiv ↗

  2. 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. DOI ↗ | SSRN ↗

Patents

  1. 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. USPTO ↗

  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. USPTO ↗

  3. 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. USPTO ↗

Last updated: September 2026

Total: 15 journal articles (including 2 accepted manuscripts) • 5 conference papers • 2 preprints • 3 US patents