An intelligent fruit picking robot
By combining flexible grippers, a passive stem-cutting device, and a buffered conveying assembly, the problem of fruit damage in mechanized harvesting is solved, achieving damage-free harvesting and conveying, and is suitable for a variety of tree fruits.
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- CHANGZHOU INST OF MECHATRONIC TECH
- Filing Date
- 2026-06-08
- Publication Date
- 2026-07-17
AI Technical Summary
Existing mechanized harvesting equipment is prone to causing fruit stems to be pulled and fruits to be scratched when harvesting fruits, which cannot meet the requirements of damage-free harvesting. In addition, the skin of fruits is damaged due to collisions and friction between fruits or with hard structures during transportation.
The system employs flexible grippers with pressure sensors to achieve non-destructive gripping, uses a passive trigger stem cutting device for impact-free cutting, and combines a Y-shaped flow guide structure, a flexible slide tube, and a buffered conveying assembly to achieve non-destructive fruit transport.
It enables non-destructive clamping and transport during fruit picking, avoiding fruit stem pulling, fruit scratches and collision damage, improving the appearance quality of the fruit, and adapting to fruit trees of different sizes and growth angles.
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