Eco-design of a mobile agriculture robot based on classical approach and FEM creteria

Abstract

Mobile robotics is a necessity in today’s world. The elaboration of this robot is going through several stages, the major one is related to the design and more often the design that respects the environment "Eco-design". The objective of this contribution is to design an ecological mobile agriculture robot dedicated to the tasks of automatic and localized maintenance of the cultivation of strawberries inside greenhouses. The agricultural robot is composed of a mobile platform based on four driven wheels, a stereo camera vision system to detect rows and locate strawberry plants, a pump system coupled to two manipulator arms with nozzles and a laser telemeter to measure and map the environment. The energy autonomy necessary for the operation of the robot is ensured by an on-board battery, rechargeable via a photovoltaic charging station. It is why in this paper that we will use the classical design approach because of its simplicity. This approach is based on several steps from the elaboration and the technical specifications of the robot to the presentation of the CAD model and giving the final prototype.