The objective of fully mechanizing olive harvesting has been pursued since the 1970s to
cope with labor shortages and increasing production costs. Only in the last twenty years …

Highlights•A three-dimensional model of an olive tree including some small branches was
established.•Optimal parameters were determined through modal and harmonic response …

This study examines the means of reducing the damage to the branches of Camellia oleifera
in the process of vibration picking and solving the problems of low equipment-development …

In the olive production sector, which is increasingly expanding beyond the borders of the
Mediterranean basin, harvesting is the most demanding phase, from both an economic and …

Harvesting in intensive olive orchards is usually performed with trunk shakers. Many
challenges remain both to the implementation of integral harvesting systems and to …

Highlights•Vibration transmission from harvester to hedgerow is close to 60%.•The main
direction of vibration is transverse to the harvester's displacement.•For 62% of the tree …

Two different olive cultivars grown under a high-density hedgerow system were studied to
compare their fruiting and branch architecture features and to determine the possibility to …

The development of trunk shaker machines over the years has been based on test-error
methods in field. Mathematical or computational models have been studied with great …

Trunk shakers are widely used in the harvesting of tree fruits. The vibration produced by
trunk shakers is obtained by rotating eccentric masses. In trunk shakers, a single eccentric …

Clarifying the low-frequency vibration transfer law of fruit trees is an important prerequisite
for studying the intelligent harvesting operation of a low-frequency shaker. Through a …