Remotely Controlled Tree Climbing Harvester
Harvesting, simplified
Created on 18th February 2024
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Remotely Controlled Tree Climbing Harvester
Harvesting, simplified
The problem Remotely Controlled Tree Climbing Harvester solves
Harvesting of fruits, involves a lot of manual labour efforts and time. There are also risks involved when a person climbs a tree, there are risks of slipping, falling. To solve these issues we have come up with a system, that involves mechanisation of the process of harvesting, especially from trees, of higher height. By implementing this project, the manual labour efforts, labour shortage issues, time issues, during harvesting can be rectified. We have considered arecanut tree for the assumptions for climbing.
Challenges we ran into
-The first challenge was about how to make a design that helps to climb the tree. The existing systems use a manual latching process to make the robot fit into the tree according to its trunk size. This issue was resolved by having a roller at the centre of the bot, and to have track at the sides, so that the robot after moving on the ground, can easing latch to the tree without human intervention
- The second challenge was about how the harvesting of fruit should be done. The fruits can be in different sides, so a single blade cannot cut all the fruit, else the vehicle should have the property to change directions to different sides, which we found hard at this stage and planned to have blades on all possible sides of the robot.
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Innovation by TKM
Business Brilliance
Technologies used