Roberto Fergola
Control System Design and Management for Autonomous Vineyard Harvesting Robot.
Rel. Marco Vacca. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Mechatronic Engineering (Ingegneria Meccatronica), 2024
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The master thesis details the design and development of an autonomous control system for a robotic manipulator tailored to grape harvesting applications. The proposed system enables the robotic manipulator to autonomously detect, approach, grasp, cut, and deposit grapes in a designated collection zone through a fully automated operational sequence. This manipulator, offering six degrees of freedom powered by stepper motors, executes precise movements managed by a low-level control architecture centred on an STM32NUCLEO-F401RE microcontroller interfaced with EVLPOWERSTEP01 motor drivers, under the coordination of an NVIDIA Jetson Nano Orin. The system’s SPI-based communication between the NUCLEO microcontroller and motor drivers allows for seamless real-time motor command execution and parameter monitoring.
The Jetson Nano Orin leverages a vision-based detection system, incorporating a webcam to capture spatial data, enabling it to drive real-time decision-making for harvesting via multithreaded control algorithms
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