Instructional Material: Fruit Picker Extended Challenge

The complexity of the Fruit Picker challenge can readily be extended:

• More than two trees
  • dead reckoning and odometry solutions will likely be insufficient
  • sensors will need for navigation
• Only collect one color of fruit
  • requires a light (or color) sensor be attached to gripper to distinguish the fruit
  • need to allow for incorrect fruit to be discarded (fruit may topple while being checked for color)
• Random tree locations
  • requires a tree searching program and the US sensor (or touch sensor if your trees are quite rigid)
  • a modified gripper or tree-honing program may be required