Design and control of a heavy material handling manipulator for agricultural robots

Sakai, Satoru; Iida, Michihisa; Osuka, Koichi; Umeda, Mikio

doi:10.1007/s10514-008-9090-y

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“…The literature provides several tools for optimization of a manipulator (Jian, Xueyan, Tiezhong, Bin, & Liming, ; Li, Liu, Li, & Li, ; Sakai et al., ; Sivaraman & Burks, ; Van Henten, Van't Slot, Hol, & Van Willigenburg, ). Systems engineering and modeling tools can help to address design issues regarding manipulation: type of arm (e.g., articulated, Cartesian), number of arms, required speed, and minimum required degrees of freedom (Edan & Miles, ).…”

Section: Future Challenges and Randd Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Harvesting Robots for High‐value Crops: State‐of‐the‐art Review and Challenges Ahead

Bac

Henten

Hemming

et al. 2014

Journal of Field Robotics

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This review article analyzes state-of-the-art and future perspectives for harvesting robots in high-value crops. The objectives were to characterize the crop environment relevant for robotic harvesting, to perform a literature review on the state-of-the-art of harvesting robots using quantitative measures, and to reflect on the crop environment and literature review to formulate challenges and directions for future research and development. Harvesting robots were reviewed regarding the crop harvested in a production environment, performance indicators, design process techniques used, hardware design decisions, and algorithm characteristics. On average, localization success was 85%, detachment success was 75%, harvest success was 66%, fruit damage was 5%, peduncle damage was 45%, and cycle time was 33 s. A kiwi harvesting robot achieved the shortest cycle time of 1 s. Moreover, the performance of harvesting robots did not improve in the past three decades, and none of these 50 robots was commercialized. Four future challenges with R&D directions were identified to realize a positive trend in performance and to successfully implement harvesting robots in practice: (1) simplifying the task, (2) enhancing the robot, (3) defining requirements and measuring performance, and (4) considering additional requirements for successful implementation. This review article may provide new directions for future automation projects in high-value crops. C 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Section: Future Challenges and Randd Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Harvesting Robots for High‐value Crops: State‐of‐the‐art Review and Challenges Ahead

Bac

Henten

Hemming

et al. 2014

Journal of Field Robotics

498

351

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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. Other robots take advantage of irrigation pipes or rails in the field [84,85] to achieve their displacement.…”

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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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“…Bonadies et al (2016), a state of the art is given on unmanned land vehicles (UAVs) used in the field of agriculture to increase efficiency, especially by reducing labor requirements. Other researchers have developed their robots to improve the harvest of several types of plants such as Van Henten et al (2002), Sakai et al (2008) and De-An et al (2011).…”

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Simulation and optimization of robotic tasks for UV treatment of diseases in horticulture

Mazar¹,

Sahnoun²,

Bettayeb³

et al. 2020

Oper Res Int J

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Robotization is increasingly used in the agriculture since the last few decades. It is progressively replacing the human workforce that is deserting the agricultural sector, partly because of the harshness of its activities and health risks they may present. Moreover, robotization aims to improve efficiency and competitiveness of the agricultural sector. However, it leads to several research and development challenges regarding robots supervision, control and optimization. This paper presents a simulation and optimization approach for the optimization of robotized treatment tasks using type-c ultraviolet radiation in horticulture. The optimization of tasks scheduling problem is formalized and a heuristic and a genetic algorithms are proposed to solve it. These algorithms are evaluated compared to an exact method using a multiagent-based simulation approach. The simulator takes into account the evolution of the disease during time and simulates the execution of treatment tasks by the robot.

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Design and control of a heavy material handling manipulator for agricultural robots

Cited by 42 publications

References 18 publications

Harvesting Robots for High‐value Crops: State‐of‐the‐art Review and Challenges Ahead

Harvesting Robots for High‐value Crops: State‐of‐the‐art Review and Challenges Ahead

Robots in Agriculture: State of Art and Practical Experiences

Simulation and optimization of robotic tasks for UV treatment of diseases in horticulture

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