Development of an Improved Robotic Graft System for Gourd Type Vegetable Seedlings
The objective of this research is to develop an automatic robotic graft system using clips as the grafting material that is suitable for the seedlings of gourd type vegetables, such as Watermelon, cucumber and muskmelon. Compared with other grafting methods, this improved robotic graft system has a novel macro-micro gripper to reduce mechanical injuries to seedlings. Moreover, grafting seedlings can be automatically adjusted to the specific orientation due to a slide guiding mechanism and this makes the graft operation much simpler and easier. The automatic graft system is made up of eight major units. A pneumatic mechanism with a programmable logic controller is used to process the sequential events needed. The experimental results indicated that the average grafting success rate is over 92％ and the system has a working capability of 720 seedlings per hour.
Graft system Automatic Macro-micro gripper
Zhang Lu Wu Chuanyu Zhang Lei Wang zhelu Shao Qun
Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Hangzhou,China
国际会议
上海
英文
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2011-10-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）