Underactuated robotics in aerospace and agricultural engineering

Abstract

Intelligent manufacturing and robotics are hot topics all over the world. This paper introduced our researches on underactuated robotics, intelligent management, and the applications in the aerospace on-orbit assembly and agricultural engineering.

Intelligent Robotics for Smart Agriculture

“…In order to improve the level of fruit harvesting automation, a new intelligent tomato picking robotics system for smart agriculture is developing. The tomato picking robotics system realizes autonomous navigation by machine vision, recognizes and spatially locates tomatoes through machine vision, and manipulates the end effector by the articulates underactuated mechanical arm for carry out the picking process of tomatoes to achieve intelligent picking by adsorb tomatoes, clamp and cut tomatoes handles [4][5][6].…”

“…Fruit and vegetable picking robots, transplanting robots and grafting robots have begun to enter the application stage. The Dutch van Henten et al developed a 7-DoFs (degrees of freedom) cucumber picking robot that uses multiple spectra to identify cucumbers, whose recognition rate could be up to 80% and the picking cycle was about 45 second [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Japan Hayashi et al…”