Octiva Belgium Bv

Octiva Group B.v.

Octinion Bvba

Pieter Dondeyne

Tom Coen

Dries Gielis

Jan Anthonis

Sebastiaan De Backer

An improved method and apparatus for automatically picking a fruit is described. During the clamping stage, the movement of the fingers is controlled such that a specific maximum clamping force is not exceeded. In addition, during at least a part of the removal stage, the mutual position of the fingers is controlled by the drive such that their mutual distance does not increase.

Method and apparatus for automatically picking a fruit

A device for picking fruit is provided with an optical detection means and a robot arm, fitted with a gripper mechanism. The processing unit actuates the robot arm to make the gripper mechanism move about the piece of fruit to be picked from below. Once grasped, the piece of fruit to be picked is rotated in such a way about a substantially horizontal axis that the stalk of the piece of fruit comes away from the plant.

Device for picking fruit having an improved robot arm

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Heverlee, Belgium

Pieter Dondeyne