Design of an advanced prototype robot for white asparagus harvesting

Tourassis, Vassilios D.; Georgilas, Ioannis P.; Chatzimichali, Anna

Abstract

Agricultural workplaces are a prototypical example of unstructured and variant environments, offering a novel challenge to robotic research and automation. In this paper, a robot prototype is presented for white asparagus harvesting. White asparagus is a rather delicate vegetable with unique cultivation characteristics, which is exceptionally tiring and laborious to collect and requires specialized workers for harvesting. In this paper, we propose an integrated robotic system able to move in the field, identify white asparagus stems and collect them without damaging them. We highlight the design decisions for every module of the harvester and outline the overall architecture of the system. ©2009 IEEE.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM
• Start Date: Jul 14, 2009
• End Date: Jul 17, 2009
• Acceptance Date: Jan 9, 2008
• Publication Date: Nov 4, 2009
• Deposit Date: Sep 25, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 25, 2018
• Print ISSN: 2159-6247
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 887-892
• ISBN: 9781424428526
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/AIM.2009.5229897
• Keywords: white asparagus harvesting, robot prototype, vegetable, unique cultivation characteristics
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/992757
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/AIM.2009.5229897
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• Contract Date: Sep 25, 2018