The invention relates to the technical field of potato harvesting, in particular to a PLP-net-based potato picking and harvesting method, which comprises the following steps: S1, moving a picking and harvesting
robot to a non-picking area; s2, identifying the potatoes to be picked up based on a PLP-net
algorithm; s3, positioning and calculating the plane position and the grabbing depth of the potatoes to be picked up; s4, making a potato grabbing strategy and sending a command to a grabbing device; s5, after grabbing is completed, whether the potato is the last potato in the area or not is judged; and S6, judging whether an unpicked area exists or not. A whole set of complete potato identification and harvesting scheme is provided, and the
automation degree and the harvesting quality of the potato harvesting process can be effectively improved; the PLP-net
algorithm is adopted to identify the potatoes, on one hand, a grabbing object and a grabbing strategy are provided for the
parallel manipulator, the grabbing accuracy and the grabbing efficiency are guaranteed, on the other hand, a basis is provided for the grading pushing device to grade the potatoes, fruit grading is directly conducted after grabbing is completed, and the harvesting efficiency and quality are improved.