Title :
A low-cost gripper for an apple picking robot
Author :
Setiawan, Achmad Irwan ; Furukawa, Tomonari ; Preston, Adam
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mech. Eng. & Manuf., New South Wales Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia
fDate :
26 April-1 May 2004
Abstract :
A special gripper has been designed to pick apples from trees in an apple orchard. It is a low cost gripper with highly capability to pick an apple without scratching its skin. The gripper has been designed in accordance to the apple orchard environment and robot specification. Furthermore, the experiments show that the gripper can complete all tasks properly. The gripper was mounted on a manipulator and tested in an indoor laboratory environment. Experimental results show that the gripper could successfully pick apples.
Keywords :
farming; grippers; manipulators; apple orchard; apple picking robot; low cost gripper; manipulator; Australia; Control systems; Costs; Grippers; Humans; Manipulators; Mobile robots; Modems; Robot sensing systems; Sensor systems;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8232-3
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.2004.1302418
