Author(s)

Huanlin Lv, Simeng Wu, Yu Xie, Yanqi Liao, Shenglan Zhang

School of Mechanical and Control Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin, China.

Design and make a high efficiency, low-cost citrus picking robot with STM32 chip as the main controller using tracks instead of tires, using a multi-core design, which can realize the robot walking automatically, the camera automatically looking for citrus, the image information recognized by the camera is transmitted to STM32 through the serial port, and STM32 controls the robot arm picking citrus according to the returned information, and after successful picking, the tangerine will be put into the box, and the tangerine will return to the unloading point automatically after the detection of the full box. It is more automatic, easy to operate, easy to maintain and adapt to uneven land, which can be well applied to the actual citrus planting.

Citrus Picking, Robot, Automation, Camera Recognition, Track

Lv, H.L., Wu, S.M., Xie, Y., Liao, Y.Q. and Zhang, S.L. (2022) Design of a Tracked Citrus Picking Robot. Open Access Library Journal, 9, 1-16. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1108569.