www.tjprc.org SCOPUS Indexed Journal editor@tjprc.org THE DESIGN AND SIMULATION OF ROSE HARVESTING ROBOT YERRAPOTHU MANIKANTA 1 , SEERAM SRINIVASA RAO 2 & R. VENKATESH 3 1 Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiyya Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Vijayawada, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India 2 Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiyya Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Vijayawada, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiyya Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Vijayawada, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India ABSTRACT The agriculture sector is backbone for several country economies; the economic status depends on the agriculture of those countries. If we increase the ease in agriculture process, with latest technologies through automation in processes such as cultivating, harvesting, spraying pesticides etc.,it increases the growth of the economic status of the country by raising its GDP. Rose flower is one, having high demand in the society but the problem with this flower is its harvesting. Rose flower cultivation is one of the difficult methods, as to harvest the thorns on their stems cause’s injuries and a training is required for the labours to learn harvesting. Decreasing the labour population day by day due to various problems increases the demand of labour and their cost. Due to the training and high labour costs in rose flower cultivation tends to increase in its production cost. To solve all these problems a rose harvesting machine which is fully automated is designed and it works with machine learning algorithms and image processing tool designed in Matlab. KEYWORDS: Rose Harvesting Robot, Naïve Bayes Algorithm, Image Acquisition, Agricultural Robot & Flower Cutting Robot Received: Nov 28, 2018; Accepted: Dec 18, 2018; Published: Jan 04, 2019; Paper Id.: IJMPERDFEB201919 1. INTRODUCTION Rose flower is a popular and profitable flower having high demand in the world. An intensive care is required to obtain quality of flowers [1]. So it employs many people to be engaged in rose cultivation. But the problem with the rose flower harvesting and labour wages, because of some reasons like people are interested in developing their lives by getting education and another reason is that they are facing a lot of difficulties like rose thorns keep hurting them physically, clothes were also affected and they have to keep their posture in bending position facing the ground for long hours for the harvesting of flowers which leads them to severe pain in their backbone, leg, thigh and feet etc., by making them fatigue[2]. This tends to decrease in man power and increase in labour costs. Rose flower is a valuable product in the market. So, they are grown in greenhouse to collect highest quality flowers all over the year. Harvesting is an important process and it has to be performed by a skilled employee with high accuracy above the first, second or third eyes of rose stem depending on the thickness of the stem [3]. The efficiency and prediction levels of employees differs from one person to another and for one Original Article International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD) ISSN(P): 2249-6890; ISSN(E): 2249-8001 Vol. 9, Issue 1, Feb 2019, 191-200 © TJPRC Pvt. Ltd.