Development of Harvesting Robot

This book is able to help the readers to know about agricultural robotic technology, which mainly focuses on harvesting and picking. In this research has been developed a new harvesting robot arm with a flexible backbone structure for working in confined and extremely constrained spaces. Moreover, we optimized a tomato detaching process by using a newly designed gripper with a passive stem cutting function. In addition, by designing the robot we also developed ripe tomato recognition by using machine learning. This book explains the proposed continuum robot structure, gripper design, and development of the tomato recognition system. Besides that, many types of robotic technology applications have been discussed.