Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4508596 | Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food | 2010 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
An end-effector was developed for a tomato cluster harvesting robot. This end-effector can harvest not individual fruits but a whole fruit cluster to improve the robot's harvest efficiency. Experiments for harvesting tomato clusters were conducted in a high-density plant training system. According to a harvesting algorithm, the end-effector was able to perform well, even when target peduncle orientations were not given. Although the success rate of harvesting tomato clusters was 50 %, it is considered that this rate would improve if an end-effector is used for the high-wire tomato plant training systems in Dutch systems where the node lengths of plants are long enough to loosely hold the main stems.
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Authors
Naoshi Kondo, Koki Yata, Michihisa Iida, Tomoo Shiigi, Mitsuji Monta, Mitsutaka Kurita, Hiromi Omori,