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A warehousing system includes a container for storing at least one item, a first electronic (e.g. radio frequency identification (RFID)) module associated with the first container, and a controller which wirelessly communicates with first electronic module, for directing a transfer of said at least one item to and/or from said first container. The inventive system may include, for example, a hybrid retail/warehouse system which includes a facility having a shelving area, and a picking area adjacent to the shelving area, and a layout so as to minimize a picking area and a walking distance between a picking area and a shelving area.

The invention relates to an automatic grading device and application thereof for apple picking. The automatic grading device for apple picking comprises a mobile vehicle, a picking device, a grading device, a storage box and a sleeve, and the picking device is arranged above the mobile vehicle and used for picking fruits; the grading device is arranged on the top of a vehicle body and located below the picking device and used for conducting size grading on the picked fruits; the storage box is arranged in the vehicle body and used for containing the graded fruits; one end of the sleeve is connected to the picking device, the other end of the sleeve is connected to the grading device, and the picked fruits enter the grading device through the sleeve in an undamaged mode. The automatic grading device for apple picking is exquisite in conception, reasonable in structural design and convenient to use, the picking efficiency can be improved, real-time grading can be conducted, the subsequent operation procedures of conducting grading on the fruits again are omitted, and meanwhile on-site boxing can be conducted in the process of conducting grading on the fruits. The picking grading vehicle can be widely applied to multiple planting environments such as orchards and mountainous regions.

Biomass may become an important source of combustible fuel in the future. For biomass, such as switchgrass, to be economically viable as a fuel, the processes required to take the plant material from a green, growing plant in the field to an energy dense package must be efficient. A self-propelled bale picking truck simplifies and speeds bale collecting, stacking, and staging for loading onto a truck for transport over the road.

In a picking and assorting system, a control unit makes, based on a volume of buckets, a picking schedule for one batch to be picked from article racks into the buckets. If there are articles that have been loaded into the buckets based on the picking schedule for one batch but remain in trays after sorting, then a warehouse control unit causes carriers to move work-in-progress trays from work shelves to a third tray storage space.

The invention discloses a robot and a method for picking daylily. According to the invention, a navigation walking system is adopted for navigation and positioning of the robot; a fruit picking systemis adopted for mechanical picking of the daylily; an object identification and positioning system is adopted for accurate identification and positioning in picking operation; a fruit collection device is adopted for timely collection of picked daylily; and an electric source and power control device is adopted for intelligent control to all systems. Through mechanical and electrical combination,and by combination of the growth characteristics and picking requirements of the daylily for highly-efficient picking, the manner of replacing manual labor with the robot is realized. The method provided by the invention controls the picking path of the robot for picking the daylily; three-dimensional coordinates of a feature point are obtained to be fed back to the electric source and power control device, so the feasibility and accuracy of the whole picking operation are guaranteed; and picking operation of the daylily is completed, and the picked daylily is timely collected, so the pickingand collection efficiency of the daylily is improved, the number of times of handling can be effectively reduced, and the quality of picked daylily is improved.

In order to flexibly configure a picking facility so that a desired article can be correctly picked in a short time from the storage location thereof, a picking system is configured from: containers (2) which each have an open top surface and house an article, a rack (3) on casters which has an open front surface and is formed by installing shelf plates (31), on which the containers (2) are mounted, vertically in multiple tiers; a picking gate (4, 4A) which is formed by hanging horizontal crosspieces (47) each equipped with indicators (5) of picking information vertically in multiple tiers between vertical crosspieces (43); and a picking information processing device (6) which is provided with a management computer (61), a controller (62) that controls the operations of the indicators (5), a handy terminal (64) and an inspection processing terminal (66) that transmit and receive information to and from the management computer (61), and which processes picking information.

The invention relates to the field of agricultural robots, in particular to an efficient pickup and collection robot for Durio zibethinus Murr. The robot disclosed by the invention comprises a pickuprobot, wherein the pickup robot is provided with a pickup component, a collection box and a control component; the pickup component comprises a rotary table, a lifting and lowering mechanism, a translation mechanism, a Durio zibethinus Murr stalk shearing mechanism capable of flexibly regulating a working angle, and a Durio zibethinus Murr receiving mechanism capable of receiving the sheared Duriozibethinus Murr, wherein the rotary table is horizontally fixedly installed on the pickup robot; the translation mechanism is horizontally arranged on the output end of the lifting and lowering mechanism; the Durio zibethinus Murr stalk shearing mechanism and the Durio zibethinus Murr receiving mechanism both can be rotatably installed on the output end of the translation mechanism; the Durio zibethinus Murr stalk shearing mechanism is positioned just above the Durio zibethinus Murr receiving mechanism; and the control component comprises a controller. The efficient pickup and collection robot for the Durio zibethinus Murr can efficiently and automatically pick up the Durio zibethinus Murr, time and labor are saved, potential safety hazards brought in a way that a person climbs a tree topick up the Durio zibethinus Murr are eliminated, multi-angle flexible pickup can be realized, the robot disclosed by the invention has a large storage space, and working efficiency is improved.

The present invention relates to a process for producing zeaxanthin, β-carotene, or lycopene, comprising inducing mutation in a carotenoid-producing microorganism in which the base sequence of DNA corresponding to 16S ribosomal RNA is substantially homologous to the base sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 1; screening for a mutant strain having a high product proportion of zeaxanthin, β-carotene, or lycopene to the whole production amount of carotenoids to provide a microorganism producing zeaxanthin, β-carotene, or lycopene; culturing the mutant microorganism; and harvesting zeaxanthin, β-carotene, lycopene or a carotenoid mixture containing the same from the resultant culture.

The invention aims at solving the problems that an existing picking machine is low in picking efficiency, harms tree trunks and wastes manpower in the picking process, and discloses a nut picking manipulator. The nut picking manipulator comprises a sliding mechanism and a picking execution mechanism except for a rack, wherein the picking execution mechanism is formed by loading a finger-carrying disk on a rotating spindle; a freedom picking finger is arranged on the finger-carrying disk; a slide block in the sliding mechanism generates certain axial resistance under the effects of rotation of the picking execution mechanism and interaction of tree branches when the picking execution mechanism operates; when the picking execution mechanism meets with strong resistance, the slide block drives the overall picking execution mechanism to move backwards along a slide rail; the picking execution mechanism can be prevented from being blocked during operation; a slipping mechanism is used for controlling the overall execution device and the inclination angle of the slipping mechanism by controlling a hydraulic cylinder; the angle is freely adjusted and controlled between 20 degrees and 50 degrees; nut stalks are torn out by picking on the basis of manual discharging and knocking; the picking efficiency is improved; adaptive picking can be achieved; and the nut picking manipulator is simple in structure, easy to control, high in reliability and wide in application range.

The invention discloses an annular double-cutter semi-automatic cherry picking machine. A lifting supporting mechanism is arranged on a movable platform trolley; a semi-automatic fine-adjusting and positioning mechanism comprises a parallelogram mechanism and a vertically arranged gear mechanism, one end of the parallelogram mechanism is connected with a lifting support mechanism, and the other end of the parallelogram mechanism is connected with a round frame base; an annular double-cutter mechanism is arranged on the round frame base, is connected with a crank and slider mechanism and comprises two movable blades and two fixed movable blades which are arranged in a mirror symmetry manner, and after being positioned and adjusted by virtue of the semi-automatic fine-adjusting and positioning mechanism, the movable blades are driven by the crank and slider mechanism to rotate around the axis centers of the movable blades so as to pick; and a collection flexible pipe is arranged at the lower part of the annular double-cutter mechanism, and the other end of the annular double-cutter mechanism is connected with a collection device and is used for collecting. The annular double-cutter semi-automatic cherry picking machine is simple in structure and high in automation degree, the picking and the positioning are accurate, the labor intensity is effectively reduced, the labor efficiency is improved, and the annular double-cutter semi-automatic cherry picking machine is suitable for popularization.

The invention discloses a device for assisting in manual operation of fruits, and belongs to the technical field of fruit picking. When the fruits are picked, the device for assisting in manual operation of the fruits is moved to the portion under a fruit tree through a moving assembly, the position, relative to a fixed rod, of a telescopic rod is adjusted to change the overall length of a rotating rod, and a round frame and a round frame cover on the telescopic rod are close to the fruits needing to be picked. Through a control assembly, the round frame and the round frame cover are opened, then the angle of the rotating rod is adjusted through a rotating assembly, the fruits to be picked are located between the round frame and the round frame cover, pedicels of the fruits to be picked are located between an upper blade and a lower blade, then the round frame and the round frame cover are closed through the control assembly, the upper blade and the lower blade are closed, the pedicelsof the fruits to be picked are cut off, and finally the fruits enter a collecting assembly. By the adoption of the device, the aim of rapidly and efficiently picking the fruits can be realized without damage to the fruits, meanwhile, the burden of orchard workers is reduced, and the efficiency of picking the fruits can be improved.

A conveying device capable of sequentially and efficiently picking up a plurality of randomly located rods, and conveying the picked up rod to a predetermined place, without using a complicated mechanism. A sucking unit has a nozzle attached to a robot hand, and is configured to move the nozzle close to an end of a first cylindrical portion of a rod to be picked. The nozzle is configured to hold the rod by being lifted while sucking the first portion within the nozzle.

A citrus picking machine comprises a frame 1 provided with rollers at the bottom, wherein a handle 8 is mounted on the frame 1, collecting frames 2 are mounted in the frame 1, an execution mechanism 4and a sorting mechanism 5 are also mounted on the frame, the execution mechanism 4 comprises a disc body 9, stationary shafts 10, a rotating shaft 11 and ordinary polish rods 12, the ordinary polishrod 12 and the stationary shafts 10 are alternately arranged on the circumference of the disc body 9, each stationary shaft 10 is provided with blades which are radially arranged from the central shaft, the rotating shaft 11 arranged at the axis of the disc body 9 is in a shape of a crankshaft, the rotating shaft 11 and the stationary shafts 10 cooperate to pick citrus, and the clearance between each ordinary polish rod 12 and one stationary shaft 10 is smaller than the diameter of citrus; the sorting mechanism 5 comprises a casing 13, a sponge wheel 14, a sorting wheel 15 and sponge 16, the sponge wheel 14 and the sponge 16 are arranged on the inner wall of the casing 3, a gap between every two blades of the sorting wheel 15 form a container for conveying the citrus, and small citrus outlets and large citrus outlets are sequentially arranged on the casing 13 in the rotating direction of the blades of the sorting wheel 15.

The invention discloses an automatic edible fungus picker which comprises an incoming bottle poking wheel, a main rotary part capable of rotating along the axis thereof, an outgoing bottle poking wheel and an edible fungus collecting device. A bottle support and a grasper are arranged on the main rotary part, the incoming bottle poking wheel is used for poking a container planted with edible fungi to the bottle support, the bottle support is used for bearing the container planted with the edible fungi and capable of moving up and down, and the grasper is provided with a clamp, an open and close mechanism enabling the clamp to clamp or release, and an oscillation mechanism enabling the clamp to be in oscillating motion. By actions of the main rotary part, the bottle support and the grasper, quick and efficient picking of the edible fungi is realized, fungus strains after being picked are separated thoroughly, the fungus strains are damaged smally and relatively complete, and the overall operating environment is clean.

A present disclosure relates to a shape compliant electroadhesive gripper for picking up atypical objects having various shapes, sizes, and materials, and a shape compliant electroadhesive gripper according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a body, a shape compliant module disposed on the body, rigidity of the shape compliant modules being variably controllable, and an electroadhesive module disposed on the shape compliant module.