Abstract
Climbing the coconut trees manually is difficult and challenging because the height of the tree is very long. In addition to, day by day the availability of professional coconut climbers is less. To overcome this difficulty in the current research article, the authors proposed a climbing device which can be climb autonomously, quickly, safely, and efficiently. The developed robot can be capable to control by remotely and also it can climb the curved shape of the coconut trunk trees. Moreover, the climbing robot consists of several mechanical elements, which are upper frame, lower frame, jaw rod, spring, wheels and universal joints which will help to climb the coconut in stable manner. It is necessary to understand the deformation behavior and stresses generated from various elements of the climbing mechanism. To analyze the behavior of various said mechanical elements in the current research article, the authors conducted a modal and harmonic analysis using finite element method (FEM) in ANSYS 2022. The developed analysis is helpful to reduce the failures of the mechanism under dynamic loads.
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The authors are thankful to DST Govt. of India under SYST Scheme for funding the project number SP/YO/2019/1052(G).
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Pandey, V.P., Tiwari, K., Mandava, R.K. (2023). Finite Element Analysis on Coconut Tree Climbing Mechanism. In: Sethuraman, B., Jain, P., Gupta, M. (eds) Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering. STAAAR 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2349-6_9
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