Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide an extending and sawing type walnut in-air picking device aiming at the technical problems in the prior art, and the picking of high-altitude walnut samples is realized through an unmanned aerial vehicle carrier and a picking mechanical arm.
In order to solve the problems proposed above, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
a stretching and sawing type walnut air picking device comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle carrier and a picking mechanical arm arranged on the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier, wherein a sawing and sawing picking head is arranged on the picking mechanical arm and can be driven to stretch;
a camera is arranged below the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier and used for acquiring a visual image of the position of a walnut to be picked and transmitting the visual image to a remote controller on the ground in real time; and operating a remote controller according to the visual image, and controlling the picking mechanical arm to drive the sawing picking head to carry out picking operation.
Further, the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier includes the unmanned aerial vehicle organism, connects the unmanned aerial vehicle horn of unmanned aerial vehicle organism, sets up the battery case at unmanned aerial vehicle organism top, the tip of unmanned aerial vehicle horn is provided with the brushless motor who provides power, brushless motor connects the paddle.
Further, the below of unmanned aerial vehicle organism is provided with the unmanned aerial vehicle support, the unmanned aerial vehicle support adopts the style of calligraphy of falling T structure.
Further, the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier adopts four-axis unmanned aerial vehicle, four unmanned aerial vehicle horn of fixedly connected with on the unmanned aerial vehicle organism, every the tip of unmanned aerial vehicle horn is provided with brushless motor and is connected with the paddle.
Furthermore, the picking mechanical arm comprises a lower connecting arm, an upper connecting arm and a vertical connecting arm, wherein a set of steering engine shaft and a set of steering engine are respectively arranged between the lower connecting arm and the upper connecting arm and between the upper connecting arm and the vertical connecting arm, the end of the lower connecting arm is provided with a sawing picking head, and the end of the vertical connecting arm is connected to the unmanned aerial vehicle body.
Furthermore, the sawing and picking head comprises a sawing motor bracket connected with the lower connecting arm, a sawing motor arranged on the sawing motor bracket, and a saw blade connected with the sawing motor, wherein the saw blade is used for sawing a fruit handle of a walnut to be picked.
Furthermore, a sawing motor baffle is further arranged on the sawing motor bracket.
Furthermore, the surface of saw bit still is provided with the saw bit protective housing, the saw bit protective housing adopts semi-circular casing.
Further, the unmanned aerial vehicle organism below still is provided with the control unit, be used for with remote controller wireless transmission to control the motion of picking the arm.
Further, the control unit comprises a single chip microcomputer and a Bluetooth module, and the single chip microcomputer is used for controlling the rotating angle of the steering engine; the Bluetooth module is in wireless transmission with the remote controller, receives a control signal from the remote controller, communicates with the single chip microcomputer through a serial port, and controls the picking mechanical arm to move.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
the aerial picking device provided by the invention is a remotely-controllable unmanned picking device, realizes high-altitude picking by utilizing the flexible movement of an unmanned aerial vehicle carrier and a picking mechanical arm, can transmit images in real time through a camera, feeds back the position information of walnuts, realizes accurate picking of high-altitude walnut samples, and has the advantages of simple integral structure, reliable work and easy realization.
Detailed Description
To facilitate an understanding of the invention, the invention will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. Preferred embodiments of the present invention are shown in the drawings. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete.
Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention.
Referring to fig. 1, an embodiment of the present invention provides an extending and sawing type walnut picking device in the air, including: the picking mechanical arm 2 is arranged on the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5, the picking mechanical arm 2 is provided with a sawing picking head 1 for sawing walnuts to be picked, and the sawing picking head 1 can be driven to extend.
The camera 4 is arranged below the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5 and used for acquiring visual images and position information of the positions of walnuts to be picked and transmitting the visual images to the remote controller 6 in real time. And operating the remote controller 6 according to the visual image, and controlling the picking mechanical arm 2 to drive the sawing picking head 1 to carry out picking operation.
In this embodiment, pick arm 2 is carried to 5 bottoms of unmanned aerial vehicle carriers, as saw cutting picking head 1 bear and the transmission, it saw cuts picking head 1 and can drive its extension to set up on the picking arm 2. The camera 4 is used for collecting real-time visual images, and the remote controller 6 is used for controlling the picking mechanical arm 2 to drive the sawing picking head 1 to cut the walnut fruit stem, so that the purpose of picking the walnut is achieved.
Further, referring to fig. 2, the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5 includes an unmanned aerial vehicle body 55, an unmanned aerial vehicle arm 53 connected to the unmanned aerial vehicle body 55, and a battery box 54 disposed at the top of the unmanned aerial vehicle body 55, wherein a brushless motor 52 is disposed at an end of the unmanned aerial vehicle arm 53, and the brushless motor 52 is connected to the blade.
Further, unmanned aerial vehicle support 51 is provided with in the below of unmanned aerial vehicle organism 55, unmanned aerial vehicle support 51 adopts the style of calligraphy of falling T structure, ensures to pick 2 shrink back of arm and leave the clear height with unmanned aerial vehicle support 51 bottom surface to guarantee the reliability of whole device work.
Further, unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5 adopts four-axis unmanned aerial vehicle, promptly four unmanned aerial vehicle horn 53 of fixedly connected with on the unmanned aerial vehicle organism 55, every unmanned aerial vehicle horn 53's tip is provided with brushless motor 52 and is connected with the paddle, and its quantity can be adjusted as required, guarantees the reliability and the stability of unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5 flight to guarantee the reliability of whole device work.
In this embodiment, battery case 54 is located unmanned aerial vehicle organism 55 top, is convenient for like this change the battery and does not influence the mount space of unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5 below simultaneously. Unmanned aerial vehicle support 51 is located unmanned aerial vehicle organism 55 below to ensure that unmanned aerial vehicle organism 55 is at least 30cm apart from the clear height on ground, make unmanned aerial vehicle descend more stably, and the protection paddle makes it can not contact ground because of the slope, also guarantees the reliability and the life-span of 5 work of unmanned aerial vehicle carriers. Specifically, the unmanned aerial vehicle support 51 adopts the design of two sets of symmetries, the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5 of being convenient for take off and land and hang the installation space of equipment down.
Further, referring to fig. 3, the picking mechanical arm 2 includes a lower connecting arm 23, an upper connecting arm 24 and a vertical connecting arm 25, wherein a set of steering engine shaft 21 and a set of steering engine 22 are respectively disposed between the lower connecting arm 23 and the upper connecting arm 24, and between the upper connecting arm 24 and the vertical connecting arm 25, a sawing picking head 1 is disposed at an end of the lower connecting arm 23, and an end of the vertical connecting arm 25 is connected to the unmanned aerial vehicle body 55.
In this embodiment, the two steering engines 22 can respectively realize rotation in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction, that is, the steering engines 22 are used as nodes of three connecting arms, the sawing picking head 1 can be driven to rotate with two degrees of freedom, the rotation angle of the sawing picking head can reach 180 °, the torque of the steering engines 22 can reach 150N · m, and therefore shaking of the whole picking mechanical arm 2 caused by vibration in the picking process is avoided.
In this embodiment, the lower connecting arm 23, the upper connecting arm 24 and the vertical connecting arm 25 are made of aluminum alloy, and have high hardness, high strength and light weight. Picking arm 2 and saw cut the electric wire of picking head 1 and all fix on the linking arm to along linking arm connection control unit 3 and unmanned aerial vehicle organism 55 in. The end of the vertical connecting arm 25 is provided with a connecting hinge so as to be mounted below the unmanned aerial vehicle body 55.
Further, referring to fig. 4, the sawing picking head 1 includes a sawing motor bracket 14 connected to the lower connecting arm 23, a sawing motor disposed on the sawing motor bracket 14, and a saw blade 12 connected to the sawing motor, wherein the saw blade 12 saws a stem of a walnut to be picked.
Further, in order to guarantee the reliability of the work of the sawing motor, a sawing motor baffle 13 is further arranged on the sawing motor bracket 14, and wood chips or blades are prevented from flying in the sawing process.
Further, the outer surface of the saw blade 12 is further provided with a saw blade protecting shell 11, and the saw blade protecting shell 11 is a semicircular shell and protects the saw blade 12 under the condition that the work of the saw blade is not influenced.
Further, a control unit 3 is further arranged below the unmanned aerial vehicle body 55 and used for wirelessly transmitting with the remote controller 6 and controlling the picking mechanical arm 2.
The control unit 3 comprises a single chip microcomputer and a Bluetooth module, and the single chip microcomputer is connected with signal lines of the two steering engines 22 to realize the rotation angle control of the two steering engines; the Bluetooth module is in wireless transmission with the remote controller 6, receives a control signal of the remote controller 6, and communicates with the single chip microcomputer through a serial port, so that the action of the picking mechanical arm 2 is controlled.
In this embodiment, the singlechip adopts Arduino singlechip, the control unit 3 sets up plays certain balanced centrobaric effect in the rear side of unmanned aerial vehicle organism 55, is connected to unmanned aerial vehicle battery case 54 with singlechip's ground point (GND) on to weld on the negative electrode bus, reduce the outside power supply of unnecessary, make and trade the electricity convenient. The Bluetooth module transmits the control operation of the two steering engines 22 on the picking mechanical arm 2 to the single chip microcomputer, and the remote control operation of the picking mechanical arm 2 is integrated on the remote controller 6, so that the operation is convenient, and the operation efficiency is reliable.
In this embodiment, the remote controller 6 is an eight-channel remote controller, and the carried screen presents the image transmission content of the remote controller, is used for remotely controlling the pitching, the rotating and the tilting of the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5, and can also send signals for controlling the picking mechanical arm 2 and the sawing motor to the control unit 3.
The invention provides a stretching and sawing type walnut in-air picking device, which comprises the following working processes:
ground personnel control remote controller 6, control brushless motor work and drive the paddle rotatory, realize taking off, descending, rotation, the slope of unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5, make unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5 fly to the position that high-end walnut branch is terminal and be close to the walnut carpopodium.
The camera 4 collects the whole course and feeds back a real-time visual image to the remote controller 6, wherein the visual image comprises the moving range of the picking mechanical arm 2 and the position posture of the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5. The ground personnel operate the remote controller 6 according to the real-time visual images and transmit signals to the control unit 3, so as to move the picking mechanical arm 2 and adjust the rotating angle of the picking mechanical arm 2. The picking mechanical arm 2 moves with two degrees of freedom, so that the sawing picking head 1 at the end part of the picking mechanical arm is accurately close to the walnut fruit handle. At the moment, the sawing motor of the sawing picking head 1 works and drives the saw blade 12 to rotate at a high speed to cut off the walnuts, so that the walnuts fall off and the picking is finished.
Drive through unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5 and saw cut picking head 1 and realize the picking operation of eminence walnut, solved high altitude walnut sample and picked difficult problem, realize accurate picking with the help of unmanned aerial vehicle carrier 5, also avoid because hitting of artifical picking in-process hits the damage to the walnut.
The above embodiments are preferred embodiments of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and any other changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications which do not depart from the spirit and principle of the present invention should be construed as equivalents thereof, and all such changes, modifications, substitutions, combinations, and simplifications are intended to be included in the scope of the present invention.