Development of Simplified Seedling Transplanting Device for Supporting Efficient Production of Vegetable Raw Materials
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Published:2023-09-05
Issue:18
Volume:13
Page:10022
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ISSN:2076-3417
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Container-title:Applied Sciences
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Applied Sciences
Author:
Han Luhua1ORCID,
Xiang Daqian1,
Xu Qianqian1,
Du Xuewu1,
Ma Guoxin2,
Mao Hanping1
Affiliation:
1. Key Laboratory of Modern Agriculture Equipment and Technology, Ministry of Education, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
2. High-Tech Key Laboratory of Agricultural Equipment and Intelligence of Jiangsu Province, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Abstract
Efficient greenhouse production has a great supporting role in the development of vegetable agricultural and sideline product processing. In this paper, a simplified automatic transplanting device was designed and evaluated in a laboratory. The device mainly consists of a seedling pick-up gripper, a transplanting manipulator, two conveyors and a control system. The flexible multi-pin gripper was designed to effectively grasp, hold, and release seedlings. Through a combination innovation of the linear modules, the transplanting manipulator was designed to move the seedling gripper to the desired working position. The conveyors were the pallet-type double-row chain transmission system for automatic feeding of plug trays and growth pots. The control system was developed to coordinate each of the aforementioned function units. The multi-factor orthogonal and transplanting performance experiments were carried out under the standard seedling agronomy. The results showed that the transplanting frequency and the pick-up depth significantly affected the transplanting quality. When the transplanting frequency was 15 plants/min, the tightened spring force was 1.2 N, and the pick-up penetration depth was 35 mm, the optimum effects of automatic transplanting seedlings could be achieved. The maximum success in transplanting seedlings was 95.47% for local vegetable crops. The developed prototype could realize less waste of seedling resources at the farm level.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
China Agriculture Research System
Precision and Efficient Transplanting Equipment Industrialization Demonstration Application Project
Open Fund of High-tech Key Laboratory of Agricultural Equipment and Intelligentization of Jiangsu Province
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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