Date of Award
6-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Publisher
Santa Clara : Santa Clara University, 2021.
Departments
Mechanical Engineering; Computer Science and Engineering
First Advisor
Christopher Kitts
Abstract
RoboCrop is a payload system that attaches to an existing modular drivetrain to support the agriculture industry with their primary challenge of labor shortages. ARC: RoboCrop features three degrees of freedom as an XYZ Cartesian robot and is intended specifically for pruning strawberry flowers. The image bay camera attached to RoboCrop’s frame identifies the strawberry flowers, communicates their XYZ coordinates, and then the Cartesian robot moves to the desired locations. The snipping toolhead is interfaced at the bottom of the Z-stroke and performs the snipping process. RoboCrop has a proven success rate of at least 70% of flowers pruned in a single workspace.
Recommended Citation
Bucher, Steven; Ikeda, Krissy; Broszus, Brooke; Gutierrez, Alejandro; and Low, Ariana, "Adaptive Robotic Chassis (ARC): RoboCrop A Smart Agricultural Robot Toolset" (2021). Interdisciplinary Design Senior Theses. 69.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/idp_senior/69