A setup of mobile robotic unit for fruit harvesting

Al-Janobi, Abdulrahman; Al-Hamed, Saad A.; Al-Suhaibani, S. A.

doi:10.1109/raad.2010.5524602

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“…The robustness of crawler and caterpillar platforms [78,79] is described by several authors, but the wheeled robots [80] are also shown as good choices due to their simplicity. All these platforms can integrate approaches such as GPS [43], odometry [50], line guidance [81], path plans [82] and manned approaches [83] as navigation strategy.…”

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“…Finally, most end-effectors are designed to operate with two fingers [44,79], since most of the grasps can be performed by them, and they are the smallest suitable mechanical architectures for grasping hand devices. In addition, grasping is commonly achieved by suction grippers [88]; for that reason, the end effectors are mainly actuated by electrical and pneumatic systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Robots in Agriculture: State of Art and Practical Experiences

Roldán¹,

Cerro²,

Garzón‐Ramos³

et al. 2018

Service Robots

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The presence of robots in agriculture has grown significantly in recent years, overcoming some of the challenges and complications of this field. This chapter aims to collect a complete and recent state of the art about the application of robots in agriculture. The work addresses this topic from two perspectives. On the one hand, it involves the disciplines that lead the automation of agriculture, such as precision agriculture and greenhouse farming, and collects the proposals for automatizing tasks like planting and harvesting, environmental monitoring and crop inspection and treatment. On the other hand, it compiles and analyses the robots that are proposed to accomplish these tasks: e.g. manipulators, ground vehicles and aerial robots. Additionally, the chapter reports with more detail some practical experiences about the application of robot teams to crop inspection and treatment in outdoor agriculture, as well as to environmental monitoring in greenhouse farming.

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Section: Ground Robotsmentioning

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Section: Ground Robotsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Robots in Agriculture: State of Art and Practical Experiences

Roldán¹,

Cerro²,

Garzón‐Ramos³

et al. 2018

Service Robots

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“…Aljanobi et al [132] used ready-made industrial manipulator having 6 DOF to harvest the dates. Hayashi et al [133] evaluated strawberry harvesting robot which consists of cylindrical manipulator, end-effector with suction device, machine vision unit, storage unit and travelling unit.…”

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Deliberation on Design Strategies of Automatic Harvesting Systems: A Survey

Bachche

2015

Robotics

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In Asia, decreasing farmer and labor populations due to various factors is a serious problem that leads to increases in labor costs, higher harvesting input energy consumption and less resource utilization. To solve these problems, researchers are engaged in providing long term and low-tech alternatives in terms of mechanization and automation of agriculture by way of efficient, low cost and easy to use solutions. This paper reviews various design strategies in recognition and picking systems, as well as developments in fruit harvesting robots during the past 30 years in several countries. The main objectives of this paper are to gather all information on fruit harvesting robots; focus on the technical developments so far achieved in picking devices; highlight the problems still to be solved; and discuss the future prospects of fruit harvesting robots.

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“…In these cases, the robots are usually expected to play an active role on the agricultural process. Among others [9] and [10] present two innovative solutions for automated harvesting, while in [11] the cutting of a specific tree is considered. In this scenario, the researchers of the Politecnico di Torino developed a novel wheeled UGV tailored on precision agriculture tasks and specifically design for monitoring and sampling of crops and soil [12][13][14].…”

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The Agri.q Mobile Robot: Preliminary Experimental Tests

Cavallone

Botta

Carbonari

et al. 2020

Mechanisms and Machine Science

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Precision agriculture is a management strategy aimed at enhancing the productivity, profitability, and sustainability of agricultural production from incorporation of technological advances primarily developed for other industries. Among them, robotics is playing a leading role for it allows monitoring with unprecedented punctuality the number of factors affecting the production processes. In this scenario the researchers at Politecnico di Torino developed an innovative unmanned ground vehicle expressly featured for accomplishment of monitoring tasks, with particular focus on the vine cultivation industry which is peculiarly strong in the region. The rover, named Agri.q, is an eight-wheeled mobile robot whose conceptual design has been already presented to the scientific community. This paper presents the first experimental results gathered on the prototype under different conditions of use, in order to illustrate the actual performance of Agri.q in its work environment.

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A setup of mobile robotic unit for fruit harvesting

Cited by 28 publications

References 11 publications

Robots in Agriculture: State of Art and Practical Experiences

Robots in Agriculture: State of Art and Practical Experiences

Deliberation on Design Strategies of Automatic Harvesting Systems: A Survey

The Agri.q Mobile Robot: Preliminary Experimental Tests

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