ARMS robot

<p>The Agricultural Robotic Manipulator for Spectrometry (ARMS) was designed during the development of the thesis 'Design of a low-cost SCARA manipulator for agricultural monitoring robots' by Maria Rehbein Pinheiro. The goal was to develop and investigate a mobile robot that incorporates a SCARA manipulator for spectral data collection in agriculture. This manipulator should facilitate a mobile platform's ability to monitor tree crops and gather data from nearby sources, such as leaves and fruits. More specifically, the system needs to analyze its surroundings, identify targets, approach them if necessary using the mobile platform, and manoeuvre the manipulator's end effector to make contact with the fruit or leaf to collect the required data for assessing their quality. The collection and data analysis are outside of the system's spectrum, the goal is the automatically guide the sensor in the end-tool.<br>This video presents the actuation of the ARMS robot in different situations,&nbsp;such as single target approach, colour differentiation, and multiple target approach.</p>