Automated system development for raspberry harvesting

-Part 1: Whole system design and Harvesting End effector mechanism development-

Abstract

Raspberry fruit contains a large amount of compounds with high health maintenance effect, so it will be a high added value product. This will save the declination of agriculture in Japan. With that back ground, we propose to automate cultivation and harvesting of raspberries. In this paper, especially, we describe our proposed automated-harvesting system.