1A1-G04 Development of Automatic Harvest Robot of Spinach to be Eaten Raw : Design and Verification of Collection and Conveyance Unit(Robotics and Mechatronics in Agriculture)

Abstract

The automated harvesting robot has been developed ranging from grain and root vegetables. However, the robot that target soft vegetables has not been developed yet. The reason is very difficult to collect without any damages the leaves and stems of vegetables soft. The structure of the collection and transport unit of the spinach harvesting robot is designed in this paper. Mechanism that applies the oscillating crank mechanism is used in the collection unit. The design result and experimental results using the unit are shown in this paper.