Test and Simulation Analysis of Soybean Seed Throwing Process

Abstract

In order to analyze the effect of different factors on the bouncing and rolling distance of soybeans at the time of seed throwing, tests and discrete element method (DEM) are employed to analyze test soil and three representative soybean varieties. The parameters between soybean seed particles and soil particles are calibrated by means of a piling test and simulation. A seed throwing test apparatus is improved to analyze the effects of seed throwing height, soil plane inclination angle and collision orientation on the bouncing and rolling distance of soybean seeds. The effect of relative seed throwing speed on the bouncing and rolling distance of soybean seeds is analyzed using a computer vision seeding test bench. On this basis, the above-mentioned test procedure is simulated and compared with the test results. The results showed that the bouncing distance of the soybean seed particles was not significant. The rolling distance had a certain randomness when the seed throwing height was different. When the inclination of the soil plane became larger, the rolling distance increased. When the sphericity of the soybean seed particles was high, the effect of different collision orientations was not obvious. If the sphericity was low, the rolling distance was the shortest when colliding in the horizontal orientation and the longest when colliding in the vertical orientation. The larger the relative seed throwing speed, the larger the rolling distance of the soybean seed particles.