Autonomous Grapevine Pruning (PIC4SeR / Yanmar)
🎬 Demo 🍇 Overview Autonomous grapevine pruning system developed within the Alta Scuola Politecnica interdisciplinary program, in collaboration with PIC4SeR (Politecnico di Torino Center for Service Robotics) and Yanmar S.P.A. The goal was to move expert pruning knowledge from human vintners into a fully autonomous perception-to-action pipeline. 🤔 Why It Is Hard Grapevine pruning requires reading 3D vine structure from images, reconstructing branching topology, and then applying domain-specific rules to decide which branches to cut. That full chain (detection → structure → decision) is what the project had to solve end-to-end. ...