Design and tests of a rotary plug seedling pick-up mechanism for vegetable automatic transplanter  

作　　者：Bingliang Ye Gongjun Zeng Bin Deng Chiulan Yang Jikun Liu Gaohong Yu 

机构地区：[1]Faculty of Mechanical Engineering&Automation,Zhejiang Sci-Tech University,Hangzhou 310018,China [2]Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Transplanting Equipment and Technology,Hangzhou 310018,China [3]Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,Zhejiang Industry Polytechnic College,Shaoxing 312000,China [4]Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,Chung Yuan Christian University,Taiwan 32023,China

出　　处：《International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering》2020年第3期70-78,共9页国际农业与生物工程学报（英文）

基　　金：The authors thank the editors and the anonymous reviewers whose constructive comments have notably contributed to the improved quality and clarity of this paper.This article was supported in part by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.LZ16E05003);the Natural Key Research and Development Program of China(Project No.2017YFD0700800);and the Science Foundation of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University(Grant No.15022011-Y).

摘　　要：The rotary plug seedling pick-up mechanism for vegetable automatic transplanter is the technical bottleneck to improve the mechanization level of vegetable planting in China.In order to solve the problems of rotary seedling pick-up mechanism proposed in previous study,such as low success ratio of seedling pick-up at high speed,and interference between the seedling bowl and the end of the other seedling pick-up arm,a novel kind of rotary seedling pick-up mechanism of planetary gear train with combined type gears of incomplete denatured-eccentric-circular and non-circular gears was proposed.Through kinematic analysis of the seedling pick-up mechanism,the kinematics model was established.The computer-aided analysis and optimization software with human-computer interaction method was developed to realize parameters optimization of the seedling pick-up mechanism.Three-dimensional parametric design system of seedling pick-up mechanisms with combined non-circular gear transmission was developed for mechanism virtual simulation to verify the correctness of theoretical model and design results of the mechanism.The physical prototype of the mechanism was manufactured,and high-speed camera kinematics tests of the mechanism were conducted in the laboratory to study its kinematic characteristics.Laboratory seedling pick-up tests were carried out.The mechanism has the success ratio of seedling pick-up 96.3%without interference during seedling transporting when the rotation speed of the mechanism is 50 r/min and the seedling transplanting efficiency is 100 plants/min per row,showing that the novel mechanism has better working performance than the original one and could be applied in vegetable plug seedling transplanter.

关 键 词：vegetable automatic transplanter rotary seedling pick-up mechanism incomplete denatured-eccentric-circular gear kinematic analysis parametric design 

分 类 号：S51[农业科学—作物学]