Research Status and Development Trend of Key Technologies for Pineapple Harvesting Equipment: A Review

Fengguang He, Qin Zhang (), Ganran Deng, Guojie Li, Bin Yan, Dexuan Pan, Xiwen Luo and Jiehao Li ()
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Fengguang He: School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Qin Zhang: School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Ganran Deng: Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Zhanjiang 524013, China
Guojie Li: Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Zhanjiang 524013, China
Bin Yan: Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Zhanjiang 524013, China
Dexuan Pan: School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Xiwen Luo: Key Laboratory of Key Technology on Agricultural Machine and Equipment, Ministry of Education, College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Jiehao Li: Key Laboratory of Key Technology on Agricultural Machine and Equipment, Ministry of Education, College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China

Agriculture, 2024, vol. 14, issue 7, 1-28

Abstract: Pineapple harvesting is a key step in pineapple field production. At present, pineapple fruits are usually picked manually. With decreasing labor resources and increasing production costs, machines have been used instead of manual picking approaches in the modern pineapple industry. This paper briefly describes the basic situation of pineapple planting worldwide. Based on the degree of automation of mechanized pineapple harvesting equipment, the main structural forms, core technologies, and operation modes of semi-automatic, automatic, and intelligent pineapple harvesting equipment are summarized. The research status and existing problems of key pineapple fruit picking robots, such as fruit recognition, maturity classification, positioning, and separation of pineapple fruits, are analyzed. Considering the problems of pineapple harvesting equipment, such as difficulty entering the ground, low harvesting efficiency, low picking success rate, and fruit damage, innovative future research directions for mechanized pineapple harvesting technology are proposed, such as combining agricultural machinery and agronomical principles, integrating mechanized, automated, and intelligent technology, and developing modular designs and generalized approaches.

Keywords: pineapple; picking; robotics; recognition; research progress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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