This paper focuses its attention on investigating the mechanical design and control aspects of a new autonomous mobile agricultural robot being developed for the purpose of automated harvesting of fruits in plantations. The paper goes from discussing the need of automated harvesting of fruits and the problems involved to conceptualizing the design of such a robot and ends with a brief discussion on the control aspects of the robot. © IMechE 2022.

Santhakumar Mohan

Department of Mechanical Engineering

D. Khare

S. Cherussery

Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad&nbsp;(IIT Palakkad or IIT PKD) is a public autonomous&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;and&nbsp;research&nbsp;institute located in&nbsp;Palakkad,&nbsp;Kerala. It was&nbsp;one of the five new&nbsp;IITs&nbsp;proposed in the&nbsp;2014 Union budget of India. The campus was inaugurated on 3 August 2015. The institute has 94 faculty, 978 students, and 63 non-teaching staffs.

IT Palakkad currently offers four-year Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) and two years MS programmes in 8 different engineering disciplines including&nbsp;Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil among others.

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Journal	Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
Publisher	SAGE Publications Ltd
ISSN	09544062