In order to help fruit orchards alleviate labor shortage problem and help medium and small apple orchards reduce the amount of equipment installation investment, a concept of drone-human co-working system and a concept of drone sharing system based on co-working system are also proposed in this study.  

A simulation model based on these two systems are created based on the designed detail functions of the drone-human co-working system as well as the drone-sharing system for apple harvesting. Harvesting schedules and costs could be created automatically for all apple orchards who attended a sharing group based on the basic information such as location, scale, etc., and expected information such as expected period, expected time, etc. Moreover, harvesting schedules and costs can be updated automatically according to updated information.

However, effectiveness of both systems has not been verified enough in this study. To confirm the effectiveness of model of co-working system based harvesting and the model of labor-based harvesting with using real data should be the further work.