DefinePK

Abstract

Generally, loose fruit has been neglected and many of the fruit was left to rot due to the conventional collection system that can cause back pain to workers and very time consuming process. This project is about rapid prototyping of loose fruit collection system including its robotic mechanism as well as roller picker for the collection part. Wireless controller is used to move the robot towards the loose fruit and the rolling tool with minimum pressure are rolled on the land. Arduino Mega 2560 that capable to process and execute commands that have been programmed being used as the hardware platform, whilst the Arduino software was used to develop the system architecture. Evaluation on the proposed system in terms of its movement, quantity and quality of the collections as well as stability shows that the prototype is capable to collect scattered loose fruit with average of 0.5kg/min on various ground and 0% trash and injury.