• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1993년도 Proceedings of International Conference for Agricultural Machinery and Process Engineering
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• pp.820-829
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• 1993

We have developed an agricultural hydraulic robot to operate in the agricultural field. Using the robot, automatic harvesting experiments of watermelon were done. The results are as follows. First, the gripper should be modified its finger. Second, the manipulator and the gripper should be known precisely about dynamic characteristics of them in order to control adequately. Therefore, a new gripper was manufactured on trial by modifying its finger, and in order to known dynamic characteristics of the manipulator and the new gripper, the system identification was carried out with experiments.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.449-456
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• 2003

A robot system was developed to pick desired colony. This robot system consisted of an image acquisition process which acquires the image information of colony, an illumination device which irradiates the object once when it gets the image of it, a picking head, a replicating head, a bed for fixing well-plates, and a sterilization device of sterilizing pin stained with colony. Picking pins were washed in an ultrasonic wave washing for takes ten seconds. Picking pins were dipped for sterilizing in alcohol for ten seconds. The time for resterilizing picking pins in a heater was five seconds. This performance test resulted 100% success rate for both the colony picking and the colony replication process. Considering the procedure in which 8 pins were smeared by colony, picked on a well plate, and sterilized as one cycle, the system could carry out one cycle in 110 seconds. It took about 138 minutes to pick around 600 colonies.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.399-408
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• 2000

This study is final focused on developing fruit harvesting robot can distinguish fruit type and status accurately. Multi-joint robot is able to discriminate tree shape and select mature fruit by image processing. The multi-joint robot consists of (a) rotating base, (b)turning first joint-arm, (c)rotating and turning second joint-arm, (d)rotating and turning third joint-arm, (e)rotating and turning last joint and (f)picker hand. The operational ranges of the robot are: horizontal 860~2,220mm, vertical 1,440~2,260mm, 270 degrees’rotation angle, 90 or 270 degrees’turning angle. The robot weighs 330kg. The multi-joint robot was designed in high accuracy and efficiency by getting as close as the movements of human arms and waist.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1993년도 Proceedings of International Conference for Agricultural Machinery and Process Engineering
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• pp.830-839
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• 1993

Agricultural hydraulic robot which was reported in Part Ⅰ had been developed . The robot satisfied performance to intend before development. For actual use, however, it have been necessary to reduce manipulator weigh and to simplify construction of hydraulic control valve. Then, working stress of manipulator link and pressure fluctuation of hydraulic circuit were measured. Step and frequency response tests were done subject to amplitude of reference voltage of 0.1 , 0.3 , 0.5 and 1.0v. and delivery pressure of 3.5 and 5.0MPa. Working stress were about 25% comparing with fatigue strength, Thus, mass of manipulator might be reduce to 30 %. In hydraulic control system, virtual natural frequency of 6.5Hz is produced from the combination of drain passage area shortage of servovalve. Further , because of passage area shortage , working pressure at both side of cylinder was acted on. This phenomenon prevent utilize effectively engine power. Then, control valve for new model was p oposed.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 2000년도 THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY ENGINEERING. V.II
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• pp.307-312
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• 2000

This study was carried out to develop an automatic grafting system suitable for fruit-vegetable seedlings. The study consisted of two research sections: 1) development of a medium-sized, low-cost automatic grafting system for cooperative farms and commercial seedlings production company, and 2) commercializing research for prototype development based on the above concepts. The grafting robot developed in this research can be described as follows, a. Developed grafting robot can cover the whole operations for grafting scion and rootstock, only if operator provides scion and rootstock tray. b. Five seedlings can be grafted at one time, and about 1,200 seedlings can be grafted in one hour. c. The success ratio of mechanical grafting scion and rootstock with ceramic pin bonding provided by the holder is more than 95% when the conditions of seedlings are satisfied. d. The grafting efficiency has improved over 10 times compared with manual work, and the grafting cost generated 44% savings.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.439-448
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• 2003

An image processing algorithm was developed for a robot system which was used in gene study. The robot system achieved a job of colony picking. The colony included DNA of an organism. The robot picked up the colony in petri-dish, which included the cultivated colony in medium, by a picking pin, and moved the colony to wellplates. The vision system consisted of an image acquisition system which acquired the image information of colony, an illumination device which irradiated the object once when it got the image of it, a computer and so on. The image processing algorithm distinguished the colony and detected colony positions. Performance test of the developed algorithm showed that the distinguishing success rate of colony and detecting success rate of colony positions were over 96%.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
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• pp.638-647
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• 1996

Robot manipulators for harvesting fruits must be controlled to track the desired path of end-effector to avoid obstacles under the consideration of collision free area and safety path. This paper presents a robot path control algorithm to secure a collision free area with the recognition of work environments. The flexible space, which does not damage fruits or branches of tree due to their flexibility and physical properties , extends the workspace. Now the task is to control robot path in the extended workspace with the consideration of collision avoidance and velocity limitation at the time of collision concurrently. The feasibility and effectiveness of the new algorithm for redundant manipulators were tested through simulations of a redundant manipulator for different joint velocities.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.444-450
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• 2011

Environmental change, labor shortage, and international trade politics make agricultural automation ever more important. The automation demands the highest technology due to the nature of agriculture. In this paper, autonomous pesticide spray robot system has been developed for rose farming in the glass house. We developed drive platform, navigation/localization system, atomization spray system, autonomous, remote, and manual operation system, and monitoring system. The robot will be a great contribution to automation of hazardous labor-demanding chore of pesticide control in glass houses.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.318-325
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• 2019

최근, 스마트 농업에 대한 관심이 증가함에 따라 농업 자동화 및 로봇에 대한 연구개발이 증가하고 있다. 스마트 온실에서 사용되는 로봇은 작업 특성과 생육 환경이 고려되어야 한다. 이를 위해 스마트 온실의 환경 분석을 통해 개발되어진 방제 로봇들을 대상으로 하였다. 본 논문은 스마트 온실에 적용 가능한 방제 로봇의 요구조건을 고려한 평가방법에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 로봇의 요구조건을 통하여 성능 및 품질 평가 기준을 수립하고 시험을 실시하였다. 로봇관련 표준을 참고하여 방제 로봇의 요구 기능과 목표를 도출하였다. 로봇의 성능을 위해 주행과 작업 능력 시험을 실시하였다. 주행시험은 로봇의 주행성능에 대한 시험을 실시하였고 작업능력은 방제성능에 대한 시험을 실시하였다. 로봇의 품질을 위해 내구성 시험을 실시하였다. 시험결과를 통하여 스마트 온실 로봇에게 요구되는 지표들을 도출할 수 있었다. 이를 통해 스마트 온실에 적용하기 위한 다양한 로봇들의 평가 기준이 될 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.415-420
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• 2000

It is very difficult to mechanize tomato harvesting because identifying a target tomato which is partly covered by leaves and stalks is not easy. This research was conducted to develop tomato harvesting robot which can identifying a target tomato, determining its dimensional position, and harvesting it in a limited time. Followings were major findings in this study. The first visual system of the robot was composed of two CCD cameras, however, which could not detect tomato not placed on the center of lens and partly covered by leaves or stalks. Secondary visual device, combined with two cameras and pan tilting was designed which could decreased the positioning errors within $\pm$10mm but still not enough for covered tomato by any obstacles. Finally, laser detector was added to the visual system that could reduce the position detecting errors within 10mm in X-Y direction and 5mm in Z direction for the covered tomatoes.