Aerial pruning mechanism, initial real environment test

摘要

In this research, a pruning mechanism for aerial pruning tasks is tested in a real environment. Since the Aerial Pruning Robot will prune tree branches close to electrical power lines, some experiments related with wireless communication and pruning performance were conducted. The experiments consisted of testing the communication between two XBee RF modules for monitoring purposes as well as the speed control of the circular saw used for pruning tree branches. Results show that both the monitoring and the pruning tasks were successfully done.