Lightweight Design of Agricultural Manipulators Based on Particle Dampers
Harvesting is an important part of agricultural production,and is also one of the most labour-intensive opera-tions.At present,agricultural harvesting is mainly achieved by combine harvesters in large field agricultural production,but facility agriculture and cash crop harvesting still rely on manual harvesting,with low harvesting efficiency and high harvesting intensity.Based on particle damping materials,this study taked tomato picking manipulator as the research ob-ject,innovatively designed an agricultural picking manipulator,elaborated on the application position and action mecha-nism of particle damping damping materials in the agricultural manipulator,and solved the problems of complexity and softness and fragility in the process of cash crop picking.By comparing with the traditional agricultural manipulator,the results showed that the optimised agricultural manipulator had a higher fruit grasping rate of about 89%on average,with a fruit damage rate of 0.It can meet the fruit grasping requirements,reduce the finger vibration during fruit grasping,im-prove the flexibility and stability of finger rotation and reduce the fruit grasping time.The research results can provide technical reference and reference for the design of vibration reduction,damage reduction and light weight of agricultural picking robots.