BACKGROUND The use of traps and other attract-and-kill devices in pest management strategies to reduce Mediterranean fruit fly populations has proved to be efficient. Nevertheless, many farmers are concerned about the effect of these devices on the trees where they are hung. Direct field observations have revealed that fruit damage is higher in trees with traps than in trees without them. This ...

İnsanların beslenmesinde kullanılan tarım ürünlerinin birçoğunun kültürü yapılmaktadır. Ancak bazı ürünler ise doğada kendiliğinden yetişmektedir. Bu suya ihtiyaç duymadığı gibi çoğu zaman tarımsal mücadele, gübreleme diğer işlemler ve uygulamalara da duymazlar. Kendiliğinden büyür, gelişir meyve verirler. tip bitkiler ya ağaçlar kendileri için en uygun yerlerde bulunurlar. Kendini korumak sarp...

The fruit and vegetable picking has posed a great challenge on the production markets during harvest season. Manual cannot fully meet rapid requirements of each market, mainly due to high labor-intensive time-consuming tasks, even aging shortage agricultural labor force in recent years. Alternatively, smart robotics can be an efficient solution increase planting areas for combination with chang...

In order to solve the problem of high missed rate camellia fruits and damage flower buds during vibratory picking, through study on biological characteristics tree, crown tree was divided into upper lower canopy at maximum diameter. A kind vibration plate type fruit picking machine designed. The structure working principle whole were described. Through analysis factors abscission, it is conclud...

Multi-robot task allocation mechanisms are de- signed to distribute a set of activities fairly amongst robots. Frequently, this can be framed as multi-criteria optimisation problem, for example minimising cost while max- imising rewards. In soft fruit farms, tasks, such picking ripe at harvest time, assigned human labourers. The work presented here explores the application multi-robot complex p...

A picking mechanism (pointing and indicating) with the cursor is essential for any direct-manipulation application. The windowing systems, under which control a direct-manipulation application runs, provide facilities that together with special utility routines allow identifying which object within the region the user is pointing at. Such picking algorithms have been widely used for selecting o...

The identification of any form of social learning, imitation, copying or mimicry presupposes a notion of correspondence between two autonomous agents. Judging whether a behavior has been transmitted socially requires the observer to identify a mapping between the demonstrator and the imitator. If the demonstrator and imitator have similar bodies, e.g. are animals of the same species, of similar...

The development of autonomous robots for agricultural applications includes motion planning, fruit picking, and collision avoidance with surrounding environments, these become challenging tasks. For harvesting applications, robust control the manipulator is needed effective robot. Several combinations Proportional(P)- Integrative(I)- Derivative(D) controllers are modelled a simulation study was...

Harvest-aid platforms are used in modern orchards to improve manual harvesting efficiency, safety, and ergonomics. Typically, workers stand at pre-set heights on a platform’s multi-level deck, each worker harvests fruits inside canopy zone that is defined by the lowest highest reach of worker’s arms. However, fruit distributions non-uniform, picking speeds vary, thus generating mismatch between...

The task of gripping has been identified as the rate-limiting step in development tree-fruit harvesting systems. There is, however, no set universally adopted ‘specifications’ with standardized measurement procedures for characterization gripper performance harvest soft tree fruit. A metrics were defined evaluation end effectors used based on (i) laboratory-based trials using termed ‘picking ar...