OS22-1 Development of a Tomato Harvesting Robot

Title:	OS22-1 Development of a Tomato Harvesting Robot
Publication:	ICAROB2017
Volume:	22
Pages:	408-411
ISSN:	2188-7829
DOI:	10.5954/ICAROB.2017.OS22-1
Author(s):	Shinsuke Yasukawa, Bingh Li, Takashi Sonoda, Kazuo Ishii
Publication Date:	January 19, 2017
Keywords:	Tomato-Harvesting Robot, Agricultural Robot
Abstract:	Most of commercialized robots are for industry, and the robots for agriculture, forestry and fisheries are under developing and not commercialized yet. The reasons for the difficulty are caused by cost-efficiency of the robotization, safety ensuring of the works using robots, outdoor operations, and knowledge transfer problem from farmers to computer so on. Tomato is one of important fruit vegetables and most tomatoes are produced in the greenhouses, or large-scale farms, where the high temperature and humidity, and long harvest age force the farmers heavy works. With an aim to promote the automation of tomato harvesting, we have organized the tomato harvesting robot competition and developed a tomato harvesting robot. In this paper, we propose the system of tomato harvesting robot.
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