Robotic Harvesting Technology for Fruit Vegetables in Protected Horticultural Production
S. Hayashi, T. Ota, K. Kubota, K. Ganno and N. Kondo
Book of Abstract. Information & technology for sustainable fruit & vegetable production, The 7th Fruit, Nut and Vegetable Production Engineering Symposium, 12-16 September 2005, Monpellier, France. Page 61
2005
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Robotic Harvesting Technology for Fruit Vegetables in Protected Horticultural Production
In large-scale greenhouse production, technological developments can reduce production costs; mechanization of crop maintenance and harvesting is one desirable way to accomplish this. In this context, we have developed three types of harvesting robot. Our prototype strawberry-harvesting robot could judge maturity and make basic harvesting movements. Our eggplant-harvesting robot achieved a harvesting rate of 29.1%, averaging 43.2 seconds per fruit. The stereoscopic vision system of our tomato harvesting robot could detect individual fruit, and detected the closest ripened tomato with an accuracy of approximately 85%.