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ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Structural Parameter Optimization of a Tomato Robotic Harvesting Arm: Considering Collision-Free Operation Requirements.

Chuanlang Peng, Qingchun Feng, Zhengwei Guo, Yuhang Ma, Yajun Li, Yifan Zhang, Liangzheng Gao

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Article in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Chuanlang PengCollege of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, China.
Qingchun FengCollege of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8469-2582
Zhengwei GuoIntelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China.
Yuhang MaIntelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China.
Yajun LiIntelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8465-8824
Yifan ZhangIntelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China.
Liangzheng GaoIntelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China.

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Beijing Nova Program 20220484023
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Abstract

The current harvesting arms used in harvesting robots are developed based on standard products. Due to design constraints, they are unable to effectively avoid obstacles while harvesting tomatoes in tight spaces. To enhance the robot's capability in obstacle-avoidance picking of tomato bunches with various postures, this study proposes a geometric parameter optimization method for a 7 degree of freedom (DOF) robotic arm. This method ensures that the robot can reach a predetermined workspace with a more compact arm configuration. The optimal picking posture for the end-effector is determined by analyzing the spatial distribution of tomato bunches, the main stem position, and peduncle posture, enabling a quantitative description of the obstacle-avoidance workspace. The denavit-hartenberg (D-H) model of the harvesting arm and the expected collision-free workspace are set as constraints. The compactness of the arm and the accessibility of the harvesting space serve as the optimization objectives. The Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) multi-objective genetic algorithm is employed to optimize the arm length, and the results were validated through a virtual experiment using workspace traversal. The results indicate that the optimized structure of the tomato harvesting arm is compact, with a reachability of 92.88% in the workspace, based on the collision-free harvesting criteria. This study offers a reference for structural parameter optimization of robotic arms specialized in fruit and vegetable harvesting.

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collision-freeharvesting robotrobotic armstructural parameter optimizationtomato

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