Coconut Harvesting Assist#
An agricultural design brief about making coconut harvesting safer, faster, and low cost without grid power.
See Text Problem Catalog for the text family index.
Quick Facts#
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text |
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Taxonomy#
- Formulation
textual_prompt
- Is Dynamic
no
- Orientation
engineering_practical
- Objective Mode
qualitative
- Constraint Nature
embedded-constraints
- Tags
text,human-subjects,ideation,agriculture,harvesting,safety- Deliverable Type
concepts
- Timebox Hint (Minutes)
48
- Participants
individual
- Evaluation Mode
idea_generation
Statement#
In certain places like the Philippines, Indonesia, and India, coconut harvesting is a major practice. The current process requires a skilled person to climb the tree and cut down the coconuts. The average height of a coconut tree is 35-40 feet and though there are grooves along the tree that make it easier to climb, the tree surface becomes very slippery during the rainy seasons. The current process may take as long as 12 hours for large farms that average 150 trees. The goal of this problem is to design a low-cost product to improve the coconut harvesting process so that it is safer and can be done more quickly.
Customer Needs:
Must remove coconut with little damage to fruit and tree
Must be safer to operate than current method
Must harvest coconuts quicker than current method
Electrical outlets are not available as a power source
Low cost
Prompt Profile#
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Value |
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Deliverable Type |
concepts |
Timebox Hint (Minutes) |
48 |
Participants |
individual |
Evaluation Mode |
idea_generation |
Sources#
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Summary |
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Levy, Hilton, Tomko, and Linsey (2017). Investigating Problem Similarity Through Study of Between-Subject and Within-Subject Experiments. ASME IDETC/CIE 2017, DETC2017-68428. |
Raw Citation Records#
Levy, Bryan, Ethan Hilton, Megan Tomko, and Julie Linsey (2017). Investigating Problem Similarity Through Study of Between-Subject and Within-Subject Experiments. ASME IDETC/CIE 2017, DETC2017-68428.