gtrobotics, agroindustrial robotics, Perth, WA, Western Australia, Australia

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Website - gtrobotics.net

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Proprietor - Greg Temple

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Robotic Fruit Picking Project

Published on Sep 23, 2013

Progress at the 18 month mark.

The objective of this project is to develop an ultra low cost and weight modular and adaptable fruit picking robot suited to agricultural environments. Ideally cost should be so low as to make it pointless for others to compete as well as making large scale manufacture cheap and feasible.

As a function of the modular design, a vehicle trailer with 20 or more of a refined version would be used to pick various fruit and vegetable crops. Thus far progress is looking good with preliminary software, mechanical and electronic architectures demonstrating feasibility. Pushing ahead the next stage includes refinement and preparation for full speed picking field trials.

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Autonomous mushroom picking

Published on Jun 3, 2015

Robotic mushroom picking.
So far results look promising although not at commercial reliability yet. For commercial reliability some improvements need to be made including:
1.Tweaking of twist and break movements to yield better mushroom separation on some clumped mushrooms.
2. Some fine tuning of imaging for mushroom identification and size. Occasionally it is slightly but significantly off.
3.A fixture to ensure stems are upright before cutting for clean cuts.
4.Addition of vacuum and force feedback to be slightly gentler on the mushrooms.