Toward Smart Tomato Greenhouse: The Fourth Tomato Harvesting Robot Competition

Takayuki Matsuo; Takashi Sonoda; Yasunori Takemura; Masanori Sato; Kazuo Ishii

doi:10.2991/jrnal.k.190829.002

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Toward Smart Tomato Greenhouse: The Fourth Tomato Harvesting Robot Competition

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Takayuki Matsuo¹^{, *}, Takashi Sonoda², Yasunori Takemura², Masanori Sato³, Kazuo Ishii⁴

¹Department of Creative Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu College, 2-20-1 Shii, Kokuraminami, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 802-0985, Japan

²Department of Integrated System Engineering, Nishinippon Institute of Technology, 1-11 Aratsu, Kanda, Miyako, Fukuoka 800-0394, Japan

³Department of Applied Information Technology, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, 536 Aba, Nagasaki, Nagasaki 851-0193, Japan

⁴Graduate School of Life Science and System Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 808-0196, Japan

^*Corresponding author. Email: matsuo@kct.ac.jp

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Takayuki Matsuo

Received 8 November 2018, Accepted 31 December 2018, Available Online 24 September 2019.

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Keywords: smart greenhouse; agriculture robot; tomato harvesting robot
Abstract: Agriculture, one of the most important industries for human life, is faced with serious problems, the shortage of workers, the falling birthrate and the aging population, global warming and natural disasters, etc. Tomato is one of the most important fruit vegetables, and most tomatoes in Japan are cultivated in the greenhouses, or large scale farms as the solution for effective production toward smart greenhouses, whereas the high temperature and high humidity, construction and management costs are big problems and technologies such as environmental control system, factory automation technology, AI, robotics are required. We had held Tomato Harvesting Robot competition from 2014 toward realization of smart tomato greenhouse aiming at promote the automated tomato harvesting to reduce the working time of harvesting. In this paper, we report on the tomato harvesting robot competition and the results mainly from the fourth competition.
Open Access: This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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Journal: Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life
Volume-Issue: 6 - 2
Pages: 138 - 142
Publication Date: 2019/09/24
ISSN (Online): 2352-6386
ISSN (Print): 2405-9021
DOI: 10.2991/jrnal.k.190829.002 How to use a DOI?
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