The Virtual Prototype Design and Simulation of Litchi Fruit Flexible Picking Manipulator

Author

Fengying, Xu ; Guolong, Liu ; Xiangjun, Zhou ; Zhen, Chen ; Ce, Xu

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Key Technol. on Agric. Machine & Equip., South China Agric. Univ., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

19-20 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

1919

Lastpage

1921

Abstract

Litchi fruit mechanized flexible picking could effectively solve the issue of the labor shortage at harvest time, and achieve high efficiency of harvesting fruit without injury, which have an important prospects of development and application. This paper designed a PP-RRR manipulator with S-joints DOF. By applying CAD graphic method, analyzed the structure size of manipulator in the height of 1-3 meters and the tree crown width of 4 meters in the flexible picking of litchi cluster-shaped fruit, built its mechanism and the virtual prototype model, in order to provide a technical support for the industrialization development of litchi harvesting intelligent equipment.

Keywords

CAD; agricultural products; control engineering computing; industrial manipulators; production engineering computing; virtual prototyping; CAD graphic method; Litchi fruit mechanized flexible picking manipulator; Litchi harvesting intelligent equipment; PP-RRR manipulator; industrialization development; virtual prototype design; virtual prototype simulation; Computers; Distributed control; Monitoring; flexible picking; manipulator; mechanism design; simulation; virtual prototype;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Distributed Control and Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (CDCIEM), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changsha

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-278-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4350-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDCIEM.2011.383

Filename

5748196