Design and performance evaluation of a novel end-effector with integrated gripper cum cutter for harvesting greenhouse produce

Kolhalkar, Nilesh R.; Krishnan, V.; Pandit, Anupama Arjun; Somkuwar, R. G.; Shaaikh, Jahier A.

doi:10.19101/ijatee.2021.874507

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“…Most commonly, UGV is used as a device for fruit harvesting. It can be a claw that picks apples from trees (Chen et al, 2021b) and is controlled by AI or carefully designed scissors used for precise grape harvesting (Kolhalkar et al, 2021).…”

Section: Current Application Of Vehiclesmentioning

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Smart Fruit Growing Through Digital Twin Paradigm: Systematic Review and Technology Gap Analysis

Apeinans,

Litavniece,

Kodors

et al. 2023

Engineering Management in Production and Services

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This article provides a systematic review of innovations in smart fruit-growing. The research aims to highlight the technological gap and define the optimal studies in the near future moving toward smart fruit-growing based on a systematic review of literature for the period 2021–2022. The research object is the technological gap until the smart fruit-growing. The research question of the systematic review was related to understanding the current application of vehicles, IoT, satellites, artificial intelligence, and digital twins, as well as active studies in these directions. The authors used the PRISMA 2020 approach to select and synthesise the relevant literature. The Scopus database was applied as an information source for the systematic review, completed from 10 May to 14 August 2022. Forty-three scientific articles were included in the study. As a result, the technology gap analysis was completed to highlight the current studies and the research trends in the near future moving toward smart fruit-growing. The proposed material will be useful background information for leaders and researchers working in smart agriculture and horticulture to make their strategic decisions considering future challenges and to optimise orchard management or study directions. Considering the current challenges, authors advise paying attention to decision-making, expert, and recommendation systems through the digital twin paradigm. This study will help the scientific community plan future studies optimising research to accelerate the transfer to new smart fruit-growing technologies as it is not sufficient to develop an innovation, but it must be done at the appropriate time.

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Section: Current Application Of Vehiclesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Fruit Growing Through Digital Twin Paradigm: Systematic Review and Technology Gap Analysis

Apeinans,

Litavniece,

Kodors

et al. 2023

Engineering Management in Production and Services

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Design and Prototyping of an Interchangeable and Underactuated Tool for Automatic Harvesting

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In the field of precision agriculture, the automation of sampling and harvesting operations plays a central role to expand the possible application scenarios. Within this context, this work presents the design and prototyping of a novel underactuated tool for the harvesting of autonomous grapevines. The device is conceived to be one of several tools that could be automatically grasped by a robotic manipulator. As a use case, the presented tool is customized for the gripper of the robotic arm mounted on the rover Agri.Q, a service robot conceived for agriculture automation, but it can be easily adapted to other robotic arm grippers. In this work, first, the requirements for such a device are defined, then the functional design is presented, and a dimensionless analysis is performed to guide the dimensioning of the device. Later, the executive design is carried out, while the results of a preliminary experimental validation test are illustrated at the end of the paper.

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Design and performance evaluation of a novel end-effector with integrated gripper cum cutter for harvesting greenhouse produce

Cited by 2 publications

References 23 publications

Smart Fruit Growing Through Digital Twin Paradigm: Systematic Review and Technology Gap Analysis

Smart Fruit Growing Through Digital Twin Paradigm: Systematic Review and Technology Gap Analysis

Design and Prototyping of an Interchangeable and Underactuated Tool for Automatic Harvesting

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