"Bee Harvest" High-Altitude Crop Collection System. This collection system is primarily designed to harvest high-altitude crops with significant economic value and high yields, aiming to address the challenges of low efficiency and difficulty associated with their collection. Taking the example of the breadfruit crops produced in Yunnan, the system is being designed.
Existing robot crop pickers mainly utilize wheeled robots for collection but tend to need help with high-altitude crops. In contrast, uncrewed aerial vehicles are susceptible to the influence of crop branches and leaves, thus leading to low harvesting efficiency. In contrast, this collection system employs the ground rail form, utilizing a single set of equipment to complete the entire crop collection within the orchard, thereby creating a "low" cost yet "high" technological content collection system. This design system comprises ground rails, elevating platforms, a mechanical claw for picking crops, a collection and sorting crop collection bin, and a conveyor belt to transport crops. Upon the completion of the ground rail deployment in the orchard, the operation trajectory is set at the back end of the system. The elevating platform coordinates with the mechanical claw and the collection bin during the operation. The mechanical claw descends, detects, and captures the crops, cuts the fruit from the stem, places it in the collection bin, and sorts the fruit by size based on its inherent structure. Once the collection weight limit is reached, the fruit is lowered and deposited into the collection box on the conveyor belt. The conveyor belt then transports the crops, completing the entire collection process.