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Apr, 2011

Development of a Following Type Vegetable Carrier

JARQ-JAPAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY
  • Jun Aoki
  • ,
  • Hideo Kainuma
  • ,
  • Eiji Kurihara
  • ,
  • Masahiko Hayashi
  • ,
  • Kagefumi Maruno
  • ,
  • Shinichiro Kawasaki

Volume
45
Number
2
First page
145
Last page
151
Language
English
Publishing type
DOI
10.6090/jarq.45.145
Publisher
JAPAN INT RESEARCH CENTER AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

The purpose of this study was to decrease the labor demands of vegetable harvesting by automatically controlling the vegetable carrier. We developed a prototype of a carrier that had a simple mechanism, but possessed enough functions to follow a vegetable harvester smoothly. The following system automatically controlled starting, acceleration, deceleration, and steering. It was able to follow a cabbage harvester up to a running speed of 0.4 m/s in a performance test on asphalt. It could follow a Welsh onion harvester at 0.02 to 0.04 m/s while providing an effective field capacity of 0.4 to 0.6 a/person.h. The effective field capacity was equal to that of conventional work, but with 20% fewer working hours (e.g., transferring and taking the harvest out). Additionally, the worker did not need to lift the harvest, and could transfer it by moving sidewise because this carrier was able to follow the Welsh onion harvester closely. Compared to a normal carrier without a following system, this. carrier reduced the number of times and the distance the workers moved in the field.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.6090/jarq.45.145
CiNii Articles
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/130002147924
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000292995400003&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.6090/jarq.45.145
  • ISSN : 0021-3551
  • CiNii Articles ID : 130002147924
  • identifiers.cinii_nr_id : 9000022019499
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000292995400003

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