Multi-purpose Robot for Vegetable Production (part 2)

Application to Vegetable Transplanting and Harvesting

Abstract

The objective of this research was to develop a multi-purpose intelligent robot for the vegetable production. In the previous report, outline of the robot and its application to the weed control in the hill space were reported. This report introduces the application to the vegetable transplanting and harvesting. Two types of planting finger and two types of harvesting hand were experimented. As the result of this research, it was clarified that the cabbage and spinach seedling could be transplanted by the trial made hand crossed finger type. Potherbs were harvested by a trial-made hand that has reciprocating knife. The existence of seedling and the height from the hill space could be detected by optical fiber sensor.