Eventos Anais de eventos
COBEM 2017
24th ABCM International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Robotic Platform with Passive Suspension to Be Applied on Soybean Crops: Initial Results
Submission Author:
Vitor Akihiro Hisano Higuti , SP , Brazil
Co-Authors:
Vitor Akihiro Hisano Higuti, andres eduardo baquero velasquez, Mateus Valverde Gasparino, Gustavo Capalbo de Oliveira, Caio Ian Alher Carrasco, José Carlos Risardi, Daniel Magalhães, Marcelo Becker, Débora Marcondes Bastos Pereira Milori
Presenter: Mateus Valverde Gasparino
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2017.COB17-1647
Abstract
The main objective of this work is to present the development and characteristics of a robotic platform to be applied on a soybean crop, which has the goal of inspecting and detecting diseases in soybean crops, either in an autonomous or semi-autonomous way. This paper describes the design process of the robotic platform, showing final images of the robot drawings; its main characteristics, including calculations used to define such characteristics; and the embedded devices, which consists of the necessary electronics to control the motors, the sensors used to navigate in the crop, and the processing unit. Also, some initial tests are presented to determine if a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensor and a Microsoft Kinect could be used to detect a soybean plant in any growth stage of the plant. For the design of the robotic platform, the growth process and the main characteristics (row spacing, space between plants of the same crop row and plant height) of the soybean crops, in Brazil, are exhibited
Keywords
Precision Agriculture, Mobile robot, mechanical design
