Design and Development of platform for harvesting tomatoes

Abstract

In recent years, from agriculture away from the like of the aging population and young people, it has been a problem that the proportion of farmers has decreased. From this, although activities of the robot is expected in agriculture, when operating a robot in a real environment, it is considered that many of the problems occur. So, this research a pre-stage of the actual introduction into the field, we have developed a tomato harvesting robot toward the tomato robot competitions. In this paper we describe the development of the tomato harvest robot toward the tomato robot competitions.