A Study on the Optimal Grasping Angle Algorithm for Plug Seedlings Based on Machine Vision (2024)

1. Junjie Liu
2. Zhang Xiao
3. Yu Tan
4. Erjie Sun
5. Bin He
6. Guoning Ma

1. Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China
2. National Key Research and Development Program of China

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