• DocumentCode
    3033176
  • 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
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    26 April-1 May 2004
  • Firstpage
    4448
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1050-4729
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8232-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROBOT.2004.1302418
  • Filename
    1302418