Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 06, 2021 - June 08, 2021
Reentry agriculture in Japan is faced with serious problems, which are the shortage of workers, the falling birthrate and the aging population, global warming and natural deserter and so on. The solution to these problems is to build a farm management system using the Internet of Things (IoT) and to automated farm work using autonomous robot. Every year, the Tomato harvesting competition is held by Kyushu Institute of Technology in December with the goal of developing agri-robots.
In this research, we investigate an autonomous fruit harvesting robot with the aim of reducing the labor burden of farmers. In this paper, we report on hardware improvements, development of autonomous algorithms, and experiments result using the classical PID control as a control algorithm for the rail linear motion.
