Development of Picking Robot in Greenhouse Horticulture

Abstract

Abstract: This paper describes development and experiments of a picking robot for sweet peppers in greenhouse horticulture. This picking robot has an image processing system with a parallel stereovision, a camera positioning system to follow the sweet pepper by visual feedback control, and a cutting device. A prototype robot system has been made and is introduced. Experiments of the prototype prove that performance of the cutting system depends on recognition of fruits of sweet peppers. Consequently, the robot has ability for picking sweet peppers.