1A1-A07 A Study of Automatic Harvest System of Saffron Pistil Using Image Processing(Robotics and Mechatronics in Agriculture)

Abstract

Saffron pistils are normally harvested by hand. As the amount of pistils obtained from one flower is very small, harvesting them a certain amount requires a hard task. In this paper, we discuss a system to automate harvesting saffron pistil using robot equipped with image processing unit. We introduce a mechanism and a task movement of the robot, and examine technique to detect cutting point and gripping point which are necessary for harvesting by image processing, and proposes a process to harvest based on it.