Kinematics analysis for five DOF Fresh Fruit Bunch harvester

Authors

  • Helena Anusia James Jayaselan
  • Wan Ishak Wan Ismail

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25165/ijabe.v3i3.226

Keywords:

kinematics, Degrees of Freedom, harvesters, manipulators, denavit and hartenberg, Fresh Fruit Bunch

Abstract

The existing mechanized oil palm harvester is claimed to be unsuccessful due to its inefficiency to harvest Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB).  It takes a lot of time compared to the conventional harvesting method, using human power.  Therefore a study was carried out using Denavit and Hartenberg (D-H) approach to automate the five Degrees of Freedom (DOF) harvester manipulator.  The general objective was to reduce the number of workers required for harvesting as well as to provide comfortable ergonomic for the operator of oil palm harvester.  The D-H’s convention was used for selecting frames of reference in robotics application which has become the standard way of representing robots and modeling their motions.  In this study, the forward kinematics and inverse kinematics were used to deduce joint angles variables while the conventional Jacobian was used for motion velocity computation.  The formulated inverse equations were tested manually on the harvester with given locations to obtain deduced joint angles.  The results were θ1=129.64°, θ3=180°, θ4=90°, which were quite accurate.  Thus, the kinematics analysis of harvester arm automation was done successfully.

 

Keywords: kinematics, Degrees of Freedom, harvesters, manipulators, denavit and hartenberg, Fresh Fruit Bunch

 DOI: 10.3965/j.issn.1934-6344.2010.03.001-007 

Citation: Helena Anusia James Jayaselan, Wan Ishak Wan Ismail. Kinematics analysis for five DOF Fresh Fruit Bunch harvester.  Int J Agric & Biol Eng, 2010; 3(3): 1

Author Biographies

Helena Anusia James Jayaselan

Department of Biology and Agriculture, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

Wan Ishak Wan Ismail

Department of Biology and Agriculture, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

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Published

2010-09-13

How to Cite

Jayaselan, H. A. J., & Ismail, W. I. W. (2010). Kinematics analysis for five DOF Fresh Fruit Bunch harvester. International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 3(3), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.25165/ijabe.v3i3.226

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2010): IJABE

Section

Power and Machinery Systems

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