Survey of Mushroom Harvesting Agricultural Robots and Systems Design

Abstract

Mushroom harvesting, specifically mushroom picking, is a labor-intensive and time-consuming activity. This article presents a literature survey of the design and evaluation of mushroom harvesting robots and technologies to address the labor-intensive and time-consuming task of manual mushroom harvesting. We classify and look at different classes of harvesting robots and technologies from the 1970s to 2022. We present the robot's overall system and capabilities, including sensors and control systems where available. We also summarized the advantages and disadvantages of each system and the performance metrics where data are available.