Optimized Design of Robotic Arm for Tomato Branch Pruning in Greenhouses

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Ma, Yuhang

作者： Ma, Yuhang;Chen, Liping;Feng, Qingchun;Sun, Yuhuan;Guo, Xin;Zhang, Wanhao;Wang, Bowen;Chen, Liping;Feng, Qingchun;Guo, Xin;Chen, Liping

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关键词： agricultural robot; tomato pruning; manipulator; structural optimization

期刊名称：AGRICULTURE-BASEL （ 影响因子：3.6； 五年影响因子：3.6 ）

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年卷期： 2024 年 14 卷 3 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Aiming at the robotic pruning of tomatoes in greenhouses, a new PRRPR configuration robotic arm consisting of two prismatic (P) joints and three revolute (R) joints was designed to locate the end effector to handle randomly growing branches with an appropriate posture. In view of the various spatial posture of the branches, drawing on the skill of manual pruning operation, we propose a description method of the optimal operation posture of the pruning end effector, proposing a method of solving the inverse kinematics of the pruning arm based on the multi-objective optimization algorithm. According to the spatial distribution characteristics of the tomato branches along the main stem, the robotic arm structure is compact and the reachable space is maximized as the objective function, and a method of optimizing the key geometric parameters of the robotic arm is proposed. The optimal maximum length of the arm's horizontal slide joint was determined to be 953.149 mm and the extension maximum length of its telescopic joint was 632.320 mm. The verification test of the optimal structural parameter showed that the optimized robotic arm could reach more than 89.94% of the branches in the pruning target area with a posture that meets the pruning requirements. This study is supposed to provide technical support for the development of a tomato pruning robot.

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