Conceptual design of a semi autonomous mobile robot for pepper plantation

Pepper is the king of spices and Sarawak in Malaysia is one of the largest producers in the world. In Sarawak, pepper vines are usually planted in secondary forest. The terrains of a pepper plantation can either be hilly or flat. Pepper berries are still manually harvested by human hands and ther...

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Main Author: Alexander, Gotte
Format: Final Year Project Report / IMRAD
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS 2008
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description Pepper is the king of spices and Sarawak in Malaysia is one of the largest producers in the world. In Sarawak, pepper vines are usually planted in secondary forest. The terrains of a pepper plantation can either be hilly or flat. Pepper berries are still manually harvested by human hands and there are no mechanical solutions at the moment. The purpose of conceptualizing the design of this mobile robot is to provide a more effective and fast method of harvesting pepper berries in the future. This mobile robot will be able to reduce the risk of human getting injured from harvesting the pepper berries. Axiomatic design approach is used to conceptualize this mobile robot. By using this approach the designer will be able to point out the limitation, function required and the design parameter by decomposing each function to multiple sub layers. This mobile robot implement two types of mechanism that is the active spoke system and the adjustable wheel support joint mechanism to overcome obstacles and avoid from being overturn on an uneven terrains. The conceptual mobile robot design is hypothesize to be able to adapt to the pepper plantation terrain.
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spelling unimas-45132023-12-26T08:04:01Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/4513/ Conceptual design of a semi autonomous mobile robot for pepper plantation Alexander, Gotte TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Pepper is the king of spices and Sarawak in Malaysia is one of the largest producers in the world. In Sarawak, pepper vines are usually planted in secondary forest. The terrains of a pepper plantation can either be hilly or flat. Pepper berries are still manually harvested by human hands and there are no mechanical solutions at the moment. The purpose of conceptualizing the design of this mobile robot is to provide a more effective and fast method of harvesting pepper berries in the future. This mobile robot will be able to reduce the risk of human getting injured from harvesting the pepper berries. Axiomatic design approach is used to conceptualize this mobile robot. By using this approach the designer will be able to point out the limitation, function required and the design parameter by decomposing each function to multiple sub layers. This mobile robot implement two types of mechanism that is the active spoke system and the adjustable wheel support joint mechanism to overcome obstacles and avoid from being overturn on an uneven terrains. The conceptual mobile robot design is hypothesize to be able to adapt to the pepper plantation terrain. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS 2008 Final Year Project Report / IMRAD NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/4513/1/Conceptual%20Design%20of%20a%20Semi%20Autonomous%20Mobile%20Robot%20for%20Pepper%20Plantation%20%2824pgs%29.pdf text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/4513/7/Alexander%20Gotte.pdf Alexander, Gotte (2008) Conceptual design of a semi autonomous mobile robot for pepper plantation. [Final Year Project Report / IMRAD] (Unpublished)
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Alexander, Gotte
Conceptual design of a semi autonomous mobile robot for pepper plantation
title Conceptual design of a semi autonomous mobile robot for pepper plantation
title_full Conceptual design of a semi autonomous mobile robot for pepper plantation
title_fullStr Conceptual design of a semi autonomous mobile robot for pepper plantation
title_full_unstemmed Conceptual design of a semi autonomous mobile robot for pepper plantation
title_short Conceptual design of a semi autonomous mobile robot for pepper plantation
title_sort conceptual design of a semi autonomous mobile robot for pepper plantation
topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/4513/
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