1A1-Q05 Development of Autonomous Movable Fruit Growing Plantroid(Robotics and Mechatronics in Agriculture)

Abstract

Recently, plant factories have been studied and developed. In these cultivation systems, however, it is not easy to maintain optimal environment for each individual plant. We propose a cultivation system using Plantroids which are robotized plant pots. A Plantroid moves automatically to an optimal environment for each individual plant based on sensory information of each plant and the surrounding environment. This paper describes development of a fruit growing Plantroid which moves autonomously to a sunny area based on generation voltage of solar cells equipped on the robot.