A Design Criterion Based on Shear Energy Consumption for Robotic Harvesting Tools

Smart and precise agriculture has increasingly been developed in the last decade, and with that, the idea of optimizing the tools commonly used in this field. One way to improve these devices, particularly cutting tools conceived for harvesting purposes, is to measure the shear energy consumption re...

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Published inAgronomy (Basel) Vol. 10; no. 5; p. 734
Main Authors Navas, Eduardo, Fernandez, Roemi, Sepúlveda, Delia, Armada, Manuel, Gonzalez-de-Santos, Pablo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.05.2020
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Agricultural development
Automation
cutters
Cutting equipment
Cutting tools
Cuttings
Design
Design criteria
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Energy harvesting
Engineering
Experiments
Fruits
Grippers
Harvest
Mechanical properties
precision agriculture
Productivity
Researchers
robotic harvesting
Robots
shear energy
Sugarcane
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Summary:Smart and precise agriculture has increasingly been developed in the last decade, and with that, the idea of optimizing the tools commonly used in this field. One way to improve these devices, particularly cutting tools conceived for harvesting purposes, is to measure the shear energy consumption required for a particular plant. The aim of this research is to establish both a design criterion for cutting grippers and a quantifiable way to evaluate and classify a harvesting tool for a specific crop. This design criterion could help to minimize energy consumption in future harvesting robots, making them more energy-efficient.
ISSN:2073-4395
2073-4395
DOI:10.3390/agronomy10050734