Edan, Y., T. Flash, I. Shmulevich, Y. Sarig, U.M. Peiper. 1990.
An algorithm defining the motions of a citrus picking robot.
Journal of Agriculture Engineering Research 46: 259-273. DOI: 10.1016/S0021-8634(05)80131-3
Edan, Y., T. Flash, U.M. Peiper, I. Shmulevich, Y. Sarig. 1991.
Near-minimum-time task planning algorithm for fruit-picking robots.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation (1): 48-56. DOI: 10.1109/70.68069
Cardenas-Weber, M., R. Stroshine, K. Haghighi, Y. Edan. 1991.
Melon material properties and finite element analysis of compression with application to robot gripping.
Transactions of the ASAE 34(3): 920-929. DOI: 10.13031/2013.31750
Edan, Y., K. Haghighi, R. Stroshine, M. Cardenas-Weber. 1992.
Robot gripper analysis: Finite element modeling and optimization.
Applied Engineering in Agriculture 8(4): 563-570. DOI: 10.13031/2013.26105
Edan, Y., B.A. Engel, G.E. Miles. 1993.
Intelligent control system simulation of an agricultural robot.
Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems 8: 267-284. DOI: 10.1007/BF01257998
Edan, Y., G.E. Miles. 1993.
Design of an agricultural robot for harvesting melons.
Transactions of the ASAE 36(2): 593-603. DOI: 10.13031/2013.28377
Edan, Y., G. E. Miles. 1994. Systems engineering of agricultural robot design.
IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 24(8): 1259-1264. DOI: 10.1109/21.299707
Edan, Y. 1995.
Design of an autonomous agricultural robot.
The International Journal of Applied Intelligence 5(1): 41-50, Special Issue on Autonomous Systems. Invited paper. DOI: 10.1007/BF00872782
Edan, Y., G.E. Miles, T. Flash, I. Wolf, J. Grinspun, U.M. Peiper. 1996.
The robotic melon harvester.
Service Robot 2(1): 10-15. Invited Paper. 1997 Award for Excellence.
Edan, Y., V. Rogozin, T. Flash, G.E. Miles. 2000.
Robotic Melon Harvesting.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 16(6): 831-834. DOI: 10.1109/70.897793
Rogozin, V., Y. Edan, T. Flash. 2001.
A real-time trajectory modification algorithm.
Robotica 19: 395-405.
Bechar, A., Y. Edan. 2003.
Human-robot collaboration for improved target recognition of agricultural robots.
Industrial Robot 30(5): 432-436. Special Issue on Food Industry and Farming. Invited Paper. DOI: 10.1108/01439910310492194
Shapiro, A., E. Korkidi, A. Rotenberg, G. Furst, H. Namdar, B. Sapir, M. Mishkin, O. Ben-Shahar, Y. Edan. 2008.

A robotic prototype for spraying and pollinating date palm trees.

DOI: 10.1115/ESDA2008-59208

Shapiro, A., Korkidi, E., Demri, A., Riemer, R., Edan, Y. Ben-Shahar, O. 2009.
Toward Elevated Agrobotics: An Autonomous Field Robot for Spraying and Pollinating Date Palm
Trees. Special Issue on Agricultural Robotics.
Journal of Field Robotics 26 (6-7): 572-590. DOI: 10.1002/rob.20299
Bernstein, R., O. Ben-Shahar, A. Shapiro, Y. Edan. 2010.
Grape clusters and foliage detection algorithms for autonomous selective vineyard sprayer.
Intelligent Service Robotics 3(4): 233-243. Special Issue on Agricultural Robots. DOI: 10.1007/s11370-010-0078-z
K. Kapach, E. Barnea, R. Mairon, Y. Edan, O. Ben-Shahar. 2012.
Computer Vision for Fruit Harvesting Robots - State of the Art and Challenges Ahead.
Int. J. of Computational Vision and Robotics 3(1/2): 4-34. DOI: 10.1504/IJCVR.2012.046419
Bac, C.W., van Henten, E.J., Hemming, J., Edan, Y. 2014.
Harvesting robots for high-value crops: state-of-the-art review and challenges ahead.
Journal of Field Robotics 31(6): 888–911. (2013) DOI: 10.1002/rob.21525
Berenstein, R., Hočevar, M., Godeša, T., Edan, Y., Ben-Shahar, O. 2015.
Distance-Dependent Multimodal Image Registration for Agriculture Tasks
Sensors 15: 20845-62. DOI: 10.3390/s10.3390/s150820845
Vitzrabin, E., Y. Edan. 2016.
Adaptive thresholding with fusion using a RGBD sensor for red sweet pepper detection.BioSystems Engineering 146: 45-56. Special Issue: Advances in Robotic Agriculture for Crops. DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2015.12.002
Eizicovits, D., B. van Tuijl, S. Berman, Y. Edan. 2016.
Integration of perception capabilities in gripper design using graspability maps
BioSystems Engineering 146: 98-113. Special Issue: Advances in Robotic Agriculture for Crops. DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2015.12.016
Vitzrabin, E., Y. Edan. 2016. Changing Task Objectives for Improved Sweet Pepper Detection for Robotic Harvesting. Robotics Automation Letters 1(1): 575-584. Doi: 10.1109/LRA.2016.2523553. ICRA, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2016.2523553
Adamides, G., C. Katsanos , Y. Parmet, G. Christou, M., Xenos, T. Hadzilacos, Y. Edan. 2017. HRI usability evaluation of interaction modes for a teleoperated agricultural robotic sprayer. Applied Ergonomics 62:237-246. DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2017.03.008
Adamides, G. , C. Katsanos , I. Constantinou, G. Christou, M., Xenos, T. Hadzilacos, Y. Edan. 2017. Design and development of a semi-autonomous agricultural vineyard sprayer: human-robot interaction aspects. Journal of Field Robotics 34(8): 1407-1426. DOI: 10.1002/rob.21721
Bernstein, R.® Y. Edan. 2017. Human-robot collaborative site-specific sprayer. Journal of Field Robotics 34(8): 1519–1530. DOI: 10.1002/rob.21730
Berenstein, R., Y. Edan. 2018.Automatic Adjustable Spraying Device for Site-Specific Agricultural Application. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science 15(2): 641-650. DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2017.2656143
Kurtser, P., Edan, Y. 2018. Statistical models for fruit detectability: spatial and temporal analyses of sweet peppers. Biosystems Engineering 171: 272-289. DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2018.04.017
B. Arad, J. Balendonck, R. Barth, O. Ben-Shahar, Y. Edan, T. Hellstrom, J. Hemming, P. Kurtser, O. Ringdahl, T. Tielen, B. van Tuijl. 2020. Development of a Sweet Pepper Harvesting Robot. Journal of Field Robotics. DOI: 10.1002/rob.21937
Arad, B., P. Kurtser, E. Barnea, B. Harel, Y. Edan, O. Ben-Shahar. 2019. Controlled lighting and illumination-independent target detection for real-time cost-efficient applications. The case study of sweet pepper robotic harvesting. Sensors 19(6): 1390. DOI: 10.3390/s19061390
Zemmour, E., P. Kurtser, Y. Edan. 2019. Automatic parameter tuning for adaptive thresholding in fruit detection. Sensors 19(9): 2130. DOI: 10.3390/s19092130
Ringdahl, O., Kurtser, P., Edan, Y. 2019. Evaluation of approach strategies for harvesting robots: Case study of sweet pepper harvesting. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications. DOI: 0.1007/s10846-018-0892-7

Other Reviewed Publications

Edan, Y., A. Bechar. 1998. Multi-purpose agricultural robot. Proceedings of the 6th IASTED (The Intl. Association of Science and Technology for Development) Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Manufacturing, July 26-29, Banff, Canada: 205-212.
Stern, H., J. Wachs®, Y. Edan. 2006. Optimal Hand Gesture Vocabulary Design Using Psycho-Physiological and Technical Factors. 7th Intl. Conf. Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Southampton, UK, April 10-12, 2006.
E.J. van Henten, C.W. Bac, J. Hemming, Y. Edan. 2013. Robotics in protected cultivation. AgriControl, Proceeding of the 4th IFAC Conference on Modelling and Control in Agriculture, Horticulture and Post Harvest Industry: 170-187. August 27-30, 2013. Espoo, Finland.
Bontsema, J., Hemming, J., Pekkeriet, E., Saeys, W., Yael, E., Shapiro, A., Hacover M., Hellström T., & Ringdahl, O. (2014). CROPS: high tech agricultural robots. International Conference of Agricultural Engineering AgEng 2014.

Chapters in Books

Edan, Y., B. Engel, G.E. Miles and U.M. Peiper. 1990.
Intelligent control of a robotic melon harvester.
Revue Automatique Productique Appliquees 3(3), 1990: 37-53. Editor: Hermes, France.
Dobrusin, Y., Y. Edan, J. Grinspun, U.M. Peiper, I. Wolf, A. Hetzroni. 1993.
Computer image analysis to locate targets for an agricultural robot.
Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Lecture notes in Computer Science 719: 775-779.
Eds: D. Chetverikov, W.G. Kropatsch. Springer Verlag, New York.Edan, Y. 1999. Invited.
Food and Agricultural Robots.
In: The Handbook of Industrial Robotics: 1143-1155, 2nd Edition. Editor: S.Y. Nof, John Wiley and Sons
Edan, Y., N. Kondo, H. Shufeng. 2009.
Automation in Agriculture. Chapter 63 pp. 1092-1128.
In: Handbook of Automation. Springer Verlag. Editor: S.Y. Nof.
Elkoby, Z.®, van Ooster, B., Edan, Y. 2014.
Simulation Analysis of Sweet Pepper Harvesting Operations, Advances in Production Management Systems Conference, APMS 2014 conference, Sept 21-24, Corsica, France. B. Grabot et al. (Eds.): APMS 2014, Part III, IFIP AICT 440, pp. 441--448. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
Edan, Y. 2018.
Advances in human-robot collaboration in agricultural robots. Robotics and automation for improving agriculture (ed. Prof John Billingsley).

Thesis

Yael Edan. M.Sc. Determination of an algorithm defining the motions of a fruit picking robot. Technion. 1988
Dima Rogozin, M.Sc., Dept. of Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science. Robotic Control of Dynamic Tasks. November 1993. (with Prof. T. Flash).
Yael Edan. Ph.D. Control and design of an intelligent agricultural robot. Purdue University. 1990
Avital Bechar, Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Human-robot collaboration methods for target recognition in unstructured environments. February 2006.
Ron Bernstein, Ph.D., Human-robot cooperation in selective spraying, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, July 2016.
Ephraim Vitzrabin, Ph.D., Dynamic local thresholding using sensor fusion, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, January 2015.
George Adamides, Ph.D., User Interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction: Application on a Semi-Autonomous Agricultural Robot Sprayer User Interface Design Specification for Human-Agricultural Robot Interaction, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, August 2016. (with Thanasis Hadzilacos).
Adi Bar, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Systems Engineering of an automatic transplanting system, March 2000.
Pini Elkabetz, M.Sc., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, System design and decision support system for site-specific sprayer, August 2008.
Yuval Oren, M.Sc., Performance analysis of human-robot collaboration in target recognition tasks, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 2008 (with Dr. A. Bechar).
Itzhak Takach, M.Sc. Switching between collaboration levels in target recognition tasks. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, December 2008 (with Dr. A. Bechar).
Dror Yashpe, M.Sc., Influence of human reaction time in human robot collaborative target recognition systems, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, December 2009 (with Dr. A. Bechar).
Liad Livne, M.Sc., Systems engineering of a robotic sprayer for greenhouses, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 2010 (with Dr. A. Bechar).
Itamar Dar. M.Sc. Image processing for a greenhouse robotic sprayer. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, September 2011 (with Dr. A. Bechar).
Ron Bernstein, M.Sc., Image processing algorithms for a selective vineyard sprayer, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 2010.
Ephraim Vitzrabin , Ph.D., Dynamic local thresholding using sensor fusion, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, January 2015.
Zohar Melamed Elkoby. M.Sc., Analysis of Human-Robot Harvesting Operations in Sweet Pepper Greenhouses. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. April 2016. (with Bert van ’t Ooster, WUR).
Kurtser, P. Ph.D. Dynamic sensing, and task planning for an autonomous harvesting robot. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. October 2018.
Ben Harel. M.Sc. Algorithms for sweet pepper color estimation. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Oct 2017. (with Y. Parmet).
Elie Zemmour. M.Sc. Adaptive thresholding algorithm for fruit detection. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Sept. 2018.
Polina Kurtser. Ph.D. Dynamic sensing and task planning for an autonomous harvesting robot. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. October 2018.
Ben Harel. Ph.D. Development of intelligent maturity classification and decision algorithms for a selective harvesting robot. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Sep 2021. (with Yisrael Parmet). Thesis.
Chen Rothschild, M.Sc., Computer vision system to count crustacean larvae, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, December 2022,(Prof. Yael Edan, Prof. Amir Sagi). Thesis, PTT.
Tohar Brenner, M.Sc, An Insect Collecting Robot: Branches Identification and Robot Motion for Improved Detection, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, February 2023, (with Prof. Yael Edan). Thesis.
Adi Yehoshua. Mobile robot’s sampling algorithms for monitoring of insects’ populations in agricultural fields M.Sc. Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. February 2023.