Study On Semi-automatic Robot For Apple Bagging

With the development of society, people's standard of living is improved continually, and so the quality of goods is regarded as an important thing. Fruit, as a necessary part in people's life, can provide a lot of nutrition element for the body. Among the kinds of fruits, apple has the call. And the sales volume of apple is increasing in the recent years. In order to improve the quality of apple, the apple bagging technology is used in many places. This technology can avoid the pollution of pesticide and injurant to the fruit, and it is one of the important measures to produce non-pollution apple. The application of this technology can solve the problem of fruit quality and pollution, and it has highly practical value in production.Aiming at the characteristic of bagging technology, the semi-automatic robot for apple bagging is designed, which mainly contains two parts, supporting part and bagging part. The supporting mechanism has an arc paw, controlled by the aerodynamic force and vacuum system, to enlarge inside of the bag maximally, improving the working efficiency and realizing the full automation of the supporting process. The bagging mechanism uses special manual flex pole to approach. and bag Fruit exactly.The control system of the supporting mechanism in this robot uses 51-series single-chip microcomputer. All the parts can work at the same time and also can correspond with each other. Real-time control and working speed had been improved greatly. The working speed reaches to 3-4 apples per minute.