Mechatronic system for automatic harvesting of cucumbers

摘要

The two main goals of this research are the development of a harvesting robot and the improvements brought in the present high-wire cultivation cucumber plant system. The mobile robot consists of a vehicle for course positioning of the robot, a manipulator and an end-effector. Aspects like working time, number of robots in a standard 2-ha cucumber nursery, and technologies used to detect, classify and locate the cucumber within its environment will also be discussed in this paper.