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Techniques in transporting and

sorting plants in plant factory

Presented by,
Elanchezhian Date : 2019/04/17
Master candidate
Smart farm systems Lab

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Contents
•Current trends in sorting and
transporting
•Literature review for Sorting
•Transporting
•Introduction to Automated Guided
vehicles(AGV)
•Proposed idea
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Current trends in Sorting and Transporting

• Why we need sorting and Transport?

• Harvesting using the labor force needs a lot of time and is extremely
inefficient
• More commodification

• Sorting according to the Size and Weight by image processing

• Transplanting trough Automation
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Current trends in Sorting and Transporting

Sorting technique by image processing

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Current trends in Sorting and Transporting

Transporting plants by conveyor belt

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Literature review for Sorting

Objectives :
Automated selection of high-mature
lettuce to increase the rate of
commodification and reduce the labor
force
The purpose is to realize automation.
The contents of the study are as follows.
1) Development of harvesting system for
plant for plant
2) Development of algorithm for selection
processing of lettuce for plant
3) End-effector for plant lettuce harvesting
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Literature review for Sorting

Chain code:
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Literature review for Sorting

Sorting process :
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Literature review for Sorting

Machine vision to analyze the plant growth

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Literature review for Sorting

CMOS camera Control Board

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Literature review for Sorting

Results

Multiple linear regression model

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Literature review for Sorting

Results End Effector

LM Guide

Control Valve
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Literature review for Sorting

Results
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Transporting

Transporting Device :

• Conveyor
Vertical Conveyor
Horizontal converter

• Diverter
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Transporting
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Transporting
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Introduction to Automated Guided vehicles

• An automatic guided vehicle system (AGVS) consists of one or more
computer-controlled, wheel-based load carriers (normally battery
powered) that runs on the plant or warehouse floor (or if outdoors on a
paved area) without the need for an onboard operator or driver.
• An automated guided vehicle or automatic guided vehicle (AGV) is a
mobile robot that follows markers or wires in the floor, or uses vision or
lasers.
• Replace manually operated material handling vehicles such as a lift truck
• Good response to labor shortages
• Allow employees to be reassigned to areas where they can add
value to the product
• Provide safe, efficient, cost-effective movement of materials
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Introduction to Automated Guided vehicles

Uses :
Manufacturing
– Raw material handling
– Work-in-process movement
– Parts/Tooling delivery
– Finished goods movement
– Removal of waste to recycling
Warehousing/Distribution
– Product storage and retrieval (block stack, in racking, etc.)
– Pallet handling
– Automatic truck/Trailer loading
– Material movement to support picking of mixed pallets
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Introduction to Automated Guided vehicles

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Proposed Idea

Automatic Guided
Vehicle System

Camera

Sorter and Transporter

Robot Arms

End Effector
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Thanks for your Attention!

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