Publication Type : Conference Paper
Thematic Areas : Biotech
Publisher : IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Source : IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2017
Campus : Amritapuri
School : School of Engineering
Center : Biotechnology, Green Energy, Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs
Department : biotechnology, Electrical and Electronics, Sciences
Year : 2017
Abstract : One of the major challenges in agriculture is harvesting. It is very hard and sometimes even unsafe for workers to go to each plant and pluck fruits. Robotic systems are increasingly combined with new technologies to automate or semi automate labour intensive work, such as e.g. grape harvesting. In this work we propose a semi-automatic method for aid in harvesting fruits and hence increase productivity per man hour. A robotic arm fixed to a rover roams in the in orchard and the user can control it remotely using the hand glove fixed with various sensors. These sensors can position the robotic arm remotely to harvest the fruits. In this paper we discuss the design of hand glove fixed with various sensors, design of 4 DoF robotic arm and the wireless control interface. In addition the setup of the system and the testing and evaluation under lab conditions are also presented in this paper.
Cite this Research Publication : Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Bandyopadhyay, S., Gedela, V., and Rahi, M., “Hand Gesture Based Wireless Robotic Arm Control for Agricultural Applications”, in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2017