2P1-C03 Development of Tomato Harvesting Robot : The 1st Report: Development of Housing of Robot and Image Processing System for Tomato Recognition

Abstract

This paper presents study of about a robot which is able to harvest tomatoes. To harvest the farm products such as tomatoes is performed by farmers now. So many farmers have problem that much cost and time are spent. Therefore, to solve this problem, we develop the robot that performs tomato harvesting by visual recognition in this study. And the purpose of image processing, to recognize a flesh tomato by using HSV conversion and search the optimal value of hue, saturation, value experimentally. In addition, our laboratory will take part in a tomato harvesting robot competition held in Kyushu Institute of Technology in December 2015.