Design, Modeling, and Control of a Low-Cost and Rapid Response Soft-Growing Manipulator for Orchard Operations
Ryan Dorosh,Justin Allen,Zixuan He,Christopher Ninatanta,Jack Coleman,Jack Spieker,Ethan Tuck,Jordan Kurtz,Qin Zhang,Matthew D. Whiting,Jiecai Luo,Manoj Karkee,Ming Luo,Ryan Dorosh,Justin Allen,Zixuan He,Christopher Ninatanta,Jack Coleman,Jack Spieker,Ethan Tuck,Jordan Kurtz,Qin Zhang,Matthew D. Whiting,Jiecai Luo,Manoj Karkee,Ming Luo
Tree fruit growers around the world are facing labor shortages for critical operations, including harvest and pruning. There is a great interest in developing robotic solutions for these labor-intensive tasks, but current efforts have been prohibitively costly, slow, or require a reconfiguration of the orchard in order to function. In this paper, we introduce an alternative approach to robotics us...
