Final Report Summary - AUTOSPAR (Development of an automatic harvesting system for white and violet asparagus)
Major achievements of the project
After two years of developments, testing and optimisations the AUTOSPAR prototype reached precompetitive status. During project activities the following objectives have been achieved:
1. a robust and powerful driven vehicle carrying all subsystems of the AUTOSPAR harvesting machine;
2. the motion mechanism (cross transfer table) for moving the detection system along the dam during scanning and for moving the two mechanical harvesting tools to the positions for asparagus harvesting;
3. two mechanical harvesting tools: the cutting device and the lifting device have been developed to be used fully automatically in the harvesting machine. The harvesting sequence is determined by the control programme;
4. the asparagus detection system, which consists of an illumination system, a light shield, cameras for image production and a program for image processing;
5. finally, the control program which is a link between the image processing and the mechanics of the AUTOSPAR prototype.
All functions, movements etc are controlled by this programme.
During the project, some dissemination material has been produced in the format of flyers, posters and videos. Most of the material is available in English, German, Dutch, Spanish and Romanian language. The AUTOSPAR partners are happy to send out information and to organise demonstrations on interest. For this the coordinator of the project Biozoon GmbH should be contacted.
Project website: http://www.biozoon.de(si apre in una nuova finestra)
After two years of developments, testing and optimisations the AUTOSPAR prototype reached precompetitive status. During project activities the following objectives have been achieved:
1. a robust and powerful driven vehicle carrying all subsystems of the AUTOSPAR harvesting machine;
2. the motion mechanism (cross transfer table) for moving the detection system along the dam during scanning and for moving the two mechanical harvesting tools to the positions for asparagus harvesting;
3. two mechanical harvesting tools: the cutting device and the lifting device have been developed to be used fully automatically in the harvesting machine. The harvesting sequence is determined by the control programme;
4. the asparagus detection system, which consists of an illumination system, a light shield, cameras for image production and a program for image processing;
5. finally, the control program which is a link between the image processing and the mechanics of the AUTOSPAR prototype.
All functions, movements etc are controlled by this programme.
During the project, some dissemination material has been produced in the format of flyers, posters and videos. Most of the material is available in English, German, Dutch, Spanish and Romanian language. The AUTOSPAR partners are happy to send out information and to organise demonstrations on interest. For this the coordinator of the project Biozoon GmbH should be contacted.
Project website: http://www.biozoon.de(si apre in una nuova finestra)
