Minutes of First Meeting

Thursday 11th of November
Project strawberry picking device
Ideas from meeting
• A buggy device that travels done the rows of the strawberry field using mountain bike wheels on either side of a strawberry mount in the channel
• A sensor rack (preliminary name) in front that hold a mix of colour sensors and also a lights that will map a matrix and recognise where the strawberry are in a confined area. It is also able to penetrate the vegetation in order to locate the strawberrys.
• Followed by a series of arms that will be picking up the strawberry depending if they are ripe or not.
• These arms will be holding sensors that will recognise if the fruit is ripe or not. (colour sensors)
Robotic arm
sensor
• They was an idea that the device could have a pressure or weight sensor in the container where it will notify us when the container is full prompting us to change or empty it.

(these are a brief summary of all the points we discussed )

Roles

James –
integration/ manager
Integrating the system
(helping everybody else out)

Tababi –
sensors
On arms front rack
Calibration of sensors
Price of sensors ETC
Adryan -
control developing the system
The sensors and actuator ETCs
Assan –
actuation and control
Looking at the motors and servos.
Ilute –
Actuation / Control

Action swe agreed on before next meeting.
• We would all go away and look at strawberry picking so we have a better idea of what goes into the process before next meeting