Journal of Biosystems Engineering
- Volume 23 Issue 6
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- Pages.629-634
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- 1998
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- 1738-1266(pISSN)
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- 2234-1862(eISSN)
Development of Automatic Lettuce Harvesting System for Plant Factory
식물 공장용 자동 상추 수확 시스템 개발
Abstract
Factory-style plant production system aims to produce the standardized horticultural products with high quality and cleanness. In Korea, researches for year-round leaf vegetables production system are in progress and the most of them are focused on environment control. Automating technologies for harvesting, transporting and grading need to be developed. A lettuce harvesting system applicable to the plant factory was studied. It was composed of an articulated robot with a cutter and a gripper, lettuce feeding conveyor and air blower. Success rate of the developed system was 94.7 %. The system carried out harvesting a lettuce smoothly and the harvesting time was about 6 seconds per lettuce. The results showed a feasibility of robotic lettuce harvesting.
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