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In most areas of Xinjiang, edible sunflower is harvested in stages by means of transplanting plates for drying and taking plates for threshing. In some areas, edible sunflower harvesters are used for field operations, and problems such as edible sunflower plate leakage and grain loss exist in the process of harvest, which seriously hinder the development of edible sunflower scale and industrialization. In order to solve these problems and improve the harvesting efficiency of edible sunflower machine, this paper conducted a field survey on planting mode and biological characteristics of the edible sunflower in Xinjiang, and summarized the harvesting mechanism of edible sunflower. Starting from the operation path of manual harvesting sunflower tray, and combining with the requirements of field harvesting, a kind of collecting station for edible sunflower was designed. Field experiment was carried out to verify the field performance of the collecting station for edible sunflower. The specific research contents and conclusions were as follows. First of all, experimental study on the physical characteristics of edible sunflower was made during harvest in Xinjiang. It mainly included the determination test of the basic physical quantity, the friction characteristic test and the impact seed falling test. The average moisture content of edible sunflower plate was 38.97% and that of culm was 65.49%. By the bevel method, we got the friction angle between the dish and the steel plate was about 29.2°, the static friction coefficient was 0.56. The experiments were carried out to obtain the operating parameters with less loss of sunflower plate, which provided the theoretical basis for the field operation of edible sunflower harvesting platform. Secondly, in this paper, the whole plan of the collecting station for edible sunflower was determined, and the structural design and parameter analysis of the key devices were carried out. This paper designed a kind of station for collecting edible sunflower by imitating the manual way of picking dish. The whole machine structure was mainly composed of the pick-up device, conveying device, collecting dish box, walking device, power transmission system and frame. By analyzing the segmented path map of manual picking-up and parabolic dish, and combining the working posture of the pick-up device in each harvesting stage, the bionic pick-up device was designed and the basic structural parameters were determined to achieve the goal of bionic dish taking action and the shortest parabolic dish path. The 3D model of the pick-up device was established and the kinematics analysis were carried out to obtain the displacement, speed and acceleration change rules of the pickup device's disk-bar and determined the best structure and working parameters combination of the pickup device. The conveying device was designed and the speed of it was calculated to be 92 r/min, the theoretical productivity was 2.19 t/h. By analyzing the power transmission system, we got the transmission law of chain. The field harvest test finally was carried out with the total harvest loss rate as the test index, the height of the plug plate, the rotational speed of the take-up rod and the forward speed of the unit as the test factors. The results showed that the collecting station for edible sunflower could complete the functions of picking up, transporting and collecting. The optimal combination of the collecting station for edible sunflower was that the height of the disc was 650 mm, the forward speed of the unit was 0.88 m/s, the rotational speed of the take-up rod was 23 r/min, and the total loss rate of harvest was less than 5%, which could meet the operation requirements of Xinjiang edible sunflower harvesting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Automatic directional packaging of corn seeds is the precondition for realizing mechanical directional sowing of corn. The key technology is tip orientation and embryo side facing recognition. Combined with the actual demand of directional packaging, tip orientation for dent corn seeds needs that the tip orientation success rate reaches 100% (i.e. the tip is completely directed), and the embryo side facing recognition accuracy rate is required to achieve a high level at the same time. In addition, combining the actual demand of agricultural production and popularization, the method and its dependent device used to realize the tip orientation and embryo side recognition method for corn seeds should have low requirements for the working environment and the operation cost should be reduced as far as possible. The existing methods of tip orientation and embryo recognition are difficult to fulfil practical requirement. On the basis of the available research results of the research team, taking dent corn seeds with horizontal posture and tip orientation incomplete exported by existing tip orientation device as research object, a tip orientation and embryo side recognition method for dent corn seeds based on laser switch and range theory was proposed and the tip orientation and embryo side recognition device was designed in this paper. According to the shape characteristics of the corn seeds, the corn seeds large head facing forward was removed by using the laser sensors and other components first to get the seeds tip orientation done, and then the embryo side facing direction of each corn seed was identified one by one and outputed. There were 2 main characteristics of the corn seed shape: shape characteristic and surface characteristic. The shape characteristic was that the outline of corn seed was similar to "V" shape with narrow tip and wide large head, the surface characteristic was that there was a germinal groove extending from tip to large head on the embryo side, and the germinal groove shape was approximately elliptical, and its long axis coincided with the symmetric axis of the embryo side, the reverse side was smooth. The tip orientation method was proposed based on the shape characteristics of corn seed and laser switch sensor. Referring to the shape characteristics of the corn seed, a "V" shape slot was designed, the corn seeds with tip facing forward could enter into the slot, while the corn seeds with large head facing forward could not enter the slot as the large head of seed would block the entrance, based on this difference, by means of a normally open laser switch sensor, a specific straight track and a push rod, the tip orientation of each corn seed could be identified and the corn seeds with large head facing forward were removed. When the seed’s tip was oriented, it would be stayed in the slot with tip facing forward, and then the direction of embryo side would be recognized based on the surface characteristic and laser range sensor. With the combined of designed device and existing tip orientation device, a practical test bench was built and the orientation test for dent corn seeds was carried out to verify the actual effect of tip orientation and embryo side recognition method. The result showed that: the tip orientation success rate of existing tip orientation device was 89.6%, the embryo side recognition accuracy rate of designed device was 96.4% and the tip orientation success rate of designed device was 99.1%, which increased by 9.5 percentage points comparing with the existing tip oriented devices. The orientation method proposed in this study could basically realize the tip orientation of the corn seeds, and at the same time, the embryo side recognition accuracy rate could be reached to a high level. Generally, the tip orientation and embryo side recognition method and the device proposed in this paper have low requirements for working environment and low operation cost, which could provide a reference for automatic directional packaging and mechanically directional sowing of corn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Agricultural implements tilt angle measurement is one of the key technologies to achieve agricultural implements and equipment precision operations. For example, the precision navigation control and the leveling control of agricultural implements are all dependent on the accurate measurement of tilt angle. What’s more, agricultural implements of tilt angle are one of the key parameters of agricultural mechanics modeling and agricultural implements safety warning learning. In order to further improve the quality of agricultural implements operation, we developed a new agricultural implement tilt angle measurement system in this paper and verified by tests on triaxial turntable platform and field. Modern micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies provide the moderate-cost and miniaturized solutions for the development of attitude reference system. Using highly-integrated inertial measurement units (IMUs) ADIS16445 provided by ADI company and micro ARM processor STM32F446 provided by ST company, we built the hardware platform. ADIS16445 ISensor® includes tri-axial gyroscopes and tri-axial accelerometers, the raw sensors data was sampled by STM32F446RC processor through SPI interface. The attitude calculation was carried out based on the Euler angle algorithm. The Kalman filter model with four state vectors and two observations was established to fuse the accelerometer and gyroscope information to achieve the accurate measurement of the tilt angle of agricultural implements. Considering the zero bias and drift characteristics of the gyroscope and the motion characteristics of the MEMS micro sensor, adaptive error covariance matrix Q and R rules were established to achieve precise tilt angle measurement of agricultural implements under different working conditions. Tests were conducted on SGT320E triaxial turntable platform and ZP9500 high level sprayer provided by LOVOL company dual in the field with the assistance of antenna positioning and attitude module BD982 provided by Trimble company. The SGT320E triaxial turntable platform was the standard equipment for testing the angular motion parameters and inertial systems. By setting the triaxial motion parameters to simulate a variety of motion states, it had speed, position and sine swing modes on all triaxial with a rate resolution of 0.0001°/s. In this paper, we used six position accelerometer calibration method and gyroscope error model to verify the performance of accelerometers and gyroscopes. Three-axis multi-function turntable test results showed that ADIS16445 built-in gyroscopes’ and accelerometers’ zero bias were under 0.15°/s and 0.075 mg, qualified to meet the system design hardware requirements. Kalman fusion algorithm were more accuracy and effective compare to simple integral by gyroscope and can solve the problem of zero bias and drift characteristics of the gyroscope with tilt static measurement error accuracy was 0.15°, typical dynamic measurement accuracy was 0.3°, maximum measurement error was less than 0.5°. The BD982 supports high precision positioning, attitude and heading output with high stability and fast dynamic response, which is widely used in construction implements, automobiles, agricultural implements and other fields, making it to be the leader of the industry. In this paper, the baseline length was 1.4 m with the measurement accuracy of 0.1°. Test results from high level sprayer showed that the average error of the attitude inclination was less than 0.55°, maximum measurement error was less than 0.91°, which satisfied the precise operation requirement of the agricultural equipment. Test results also verified that self-adaptive Kalman filter algorithm was more accuracy and stable than normal Kalman filter algorithm, which made the system development by this paper have more applicability. The agricultural implements tilt angle measurement system developed in this paper not only can reducing costs but also can improving the quality of agricultural implements operations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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For transplanting vegetables plug seedlings, it is difficult to directly pick up seedlings from the tray cells. Damages of root lumps of plug seedling happen all the time in extracting. In this paper, a root lump loosening mechanism using air jets to eject vegetable plug seedlings making for transplanting was designed and evaluated. It consisted of air jets, a linear module, a double-rod cylinder, a control system and some other supporting parts. The step transmission of the air jet along the horizontal direction was performed using the linear module, which was a synchronous belt system. The air jet′ motion along the vertical direction up and down for ejecting plug seedlings was moved by the double-rod cylinder. For high blowing rates, wholes rows of air jets aiming for each drain hole was designed. In this arrangement, the seedlings could be loosened row by row. With a row of air jets blowing the seedling plugs from the drain holes of the tray cells, air pressures along with the force of the plungers effectively loosened seedlings. It would be good for manual pulling seedlings or automatically picking up seedlings from the tray cells. Based on the integrated design and analysis, the air pressure range of succeeding in loosening seedling plugs was 0.098-0.235 MPa using the air jet at the diameter of 5 mm. Under this condition, the seedlings appeared to be most effective in the loosening and not in destroy of the root soil. Meanwhile, the air jet could eject each drain hole at the bottom of the 128-cell tray. Being the first prototype, its optimal machine parameters were examined under various conditions. In the optimum tests, it was found that the air pressure of the air jet plungers exerted the greatest effect on the integrated ratio in loosening seedling plugs, and followed by the moisture content. Other factors such as the seedling age, the air flow rate and the air jet with sponges or not had no significant effects on the integrated ratio in loosening seedling plugs. In reality, it would probably be a moderate air blast for blowing of the plug seedlings from the tray. If the moisture content of root lumps of the plug seedlings was less than 55%, the cohesion forces between the roots and the tray cell walls would increase. In this case, wetting the roots might serve to reduce the adhesion making for blowing. For cucumbers seedlings, when the air pressure of the air jet plungers was 0.2 MPa, the root zone moisture was 55%-60%, the seedling age was 25 d, the airflow circuit was fully open at the outlet of 4 mm, and the air jet had no sponges, the best intact rate succeeding in loosening root lumps of plug seedlings was achieved. Finally, the overall loosening performance test was carried out. The intact rate of seedling and root lump in loosening root lumps by blowing was more than 96%. It needed about 48 s for finishing loosening the whole tray of plug seedling. The loosening mechanism using air jets to eject vegetable plug seedlings has a good performance, which can meet the actual requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to solve the problem that seedlings cultivated by pie-shaped compression matrix can not be planted by the existing transplanter, a semi-automatic compression matrix seedling transplanter was designed in this paper by mimicking the artificially transplanting method of putting seedlings after punching a hole. The compression matrix type seedling transplanter mainly consists of a ground wheel, a swing mechanism, a ratchet wheel, a hole puncher, a displacement mechanism, a seedling clamping mechanism, a conveying device, a transmission system, a rack, and so on. The physical dimensions and mechanical properties of the compression matrix type seedling are the key basis for the design of the seedling planting schemes and structures. Taking watermelon seedlings as the research object, the dimensions of the seedlings were measured, and the friction coefficient of the compression matrix with different water contents and the compressive strength of the compression matrix were determined. The coefficients of friction between the slideways and the flanks of watermelon seedlings with 2 groups of different water contents were determined to be 0.755 and 0.634 respectively by single-factor tests. The relationship between the compression load and the compression amount of the 2 groups was also analyzed. When the load is 0-5 N, as the surface of the seedling is in point contact with the semi-circular thin metal at the initial stage of compression, the compression load increases evenly and the amount increases rapidly. When the load is between 5 and 20 N, as the surface of the seedling is in surface contact with the semi-circular thin metal, the compression load increases evenly with less impact on compression. When the load is greater than 25 N, some external cracks are observed on the surface of the seeding during the test. Comparing the 2 tests, it can be seen that the seedling with high water content is not easily destroyed. The swing mechanism is optimized according to the known movement law of the initial angle of the crank and the output angle of the driven rod. The dimensions of optimized parts are 57, 161, 79 and 170 mm, respectively. When the crank rotates one revolution of 360°, the reciprocating swing angle of the driven rod is 92.3°, which satisfies the working requirements of the four-equal-part ratchet wheel mechanism. The structure and specific size parameters of the hole puncher are determined according to the measurement size and planting depth requirements of the watermelon seedling. The width of the edge surface is 1.5 mm. The inner diameter of the small end is 64 mm, and the height of the tapered part of the hole puncher is 65 mm, and when the incision angle is 21°, the inner diameter of the big end is about 114 mm. The structure parameters of the seedling clamping mechanism are determined according to the mechanical properties and the dimension of watermelon seedling. And it is also concluded that the seedling’s matrix can overcome the self-gravity of the seedling, which ensures that the seedling clamping mechanism can securely grip the seedlings when transplanting with a clamping force of 26 N. The seedling conveying device and the planting holding device are driven by the same power source, ensuring that the feeding speed of the seedlings is synchronized with taking seedling action of the planting holding device. The conveyor belt is used to transport the seedlings, and the conveyor belt was designed to send seedlings at a speed of 40 plants per minute. Using a compression matrix for field planting functional verification tests, the average plant spacing is 98.6 cm when the transplanter moves at a stable speed of 2.1-2.6 km/h. The pass rate of the plant spacing is 90.62% and the lodging rate is 21.9% which is slightly higher. In the follow-up study, dual-ground-wheel driving would be used to improve the reliability of the transmission and obtain uniform spacing; a hole shape with the same level and the same depth should be acquired, and the lodging rate after the landing of pie-shaped matrix would be reduced by increasing the copying mechanism and optimizing the shape and structural parameters of the hole puncher. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The royal jelly pick worm is a process that must be completed before harvesting pulp. Because of the larvae of bee are small and in a great deal of numbers, the labor intensity of the manual sorting process is very large. Moreover, the aging of Chinese beekeeping workforce is becoming increasingly serious in the bee keeping industry, and now the royal jelly picking worm have not yet reached mechanization, which hinders the production of royal jelly. In this paper, we developed a method for the present situation of Chinese beekeeping in a three-needle structural picking machine, which would not affect the quality of the royal jelly. First, the machine put the queen cell without beeswax one by one into the king's guide slot, then turned the pedal, the drive shaft was turned by pulley, and the main shaft would transfer the power to the drive unit and the picking worm unit. The toothed belt of the transmission unit transmitted the queen cell to the picking insect unit. Because of the its own weight, the queen cell which in guide groove was falling, implement automatic supply of queen cell, the action of picking worm was completed by pick worm unit, then bee larvae are collected by the insect collecting box. The queen cell was sent out after picking worm, thus finish the picking worm process. This device was easy to operate and had compact structure, suitable for the field operation for beekeepers. The machine was mainly used to construct the whole machine scheme of the three needles pick worm. The three needles were evenly distributed in the inner wall of queen cell, and at the same time, it also had a centripetal movement to clamp or loosen the bee. The three-needle mechanism was used for the coordination between the space sheave and cam mechanism, and the parameters of the space tank wheel and cam were calculated. The force situation of the foot pedal of the power input was obtained through finite element analysis. Finally, the arc length of the space slot was 7.5 PI, and the groove depth was 20.68 mm. The theoretical profile and work profile of the cam were obtained. The finite element analysis of the foot pedal was concluded that the actual stress was much less than the allowable stress of the material itself, which indicated that the method met the requirement of use. The experimental comparison and economic benefit of the artificial picking insects and the robot were summarized as follows: the machine will control the rate of worm picking at 10/min, 10 times the efficiency of manual sorting. The machine in royal jelly, royal jelly larvae preserved and did not affect the quality under the premise of one-time whole queen cell bee larvae all picked out of a hole (64), which realized continuous operation, greatly improved the efficiency of the pick of royal jelly, overcame long manual work time and labor intensity. It was very helpful to expand the scale of bee keeping in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the increasing use of the agricultural plastic film, the pollution it brings is also becoming more and more serious. Therefore, design and experiment on plastic film collector of ridged peanut mean great significance to us, of course, facing huge problems. Mechanical recycling plastic film can overcome shortcomings of the great labor intensity and low efficiency using artificial picking up. However the existing plastic film recycling equipments are generally designed based on experiences and have no precise theoretical researches for components, and there are some issues including unreliable picking up performance and unloading mechanism and serious wear of working parts. This paper focuses on the lack of effective automatic removing mechanism for teeth type residue plastic film collector, and according to this situation, automatic removing and smooth returning mechanism for teeth type residue plastic film collector have been designed. Teeth type residue plastic film collector with self-motion unloading mechanism consists of frame, hydraulic shaft fixture, hydraulic fixing bracket, rake, self-motion unloading square tube, hydraulic device, and self-motion unloading scraper. The stability, reliability, and returning smoothness of the motion of the parallel 4-rod linkage mechanism are analyzed. We design a variety of different forms of squeegees to test, and at last find the best form of squeegee named V-shaped. The key part of the mechanism is focused and the stress analysis is performed. Teeth are persistently distorted when they are working. We design 3 types of squeegees including horizontal squeegee, U-shaped squeegee, and V-shaped squeegee, and at last we find the V-shaped squeegee can ensure that teeth are put back in origin place, so it can achieve the best results. The design and innovation of the hydraulic system are also important. We choose single-rod hydraulic cyclinder of 45# steel, the size of hydraulic cyclinder diameter is 40 mm, and the size of piston rod diameter is 25 mm. We use the stress analysis on squeegee, and the movement analysis on planar linkage, and find the movement track of the squeegee at last. Based on this, the objective function and constraints are determined, and the major influencing factors of teeth type residue plastic film collector with self-motion unloading mechanism are the space between teeth and squeegee, squeegee angle, and automatic removing mechanism angle. We do experiment in Jiaozhou, Qingdao, China, the previous crop is peanut, and moisture content of soil is 16%. The experiment and response surface analysis are done for the space between teeth and squeegee, squeegee angle, and automatic removing mechanism angle. The data are then processed, and the parameters are optimized by the response surface method with Design Expert. The response surface analysis of the model shows that the effect of the 3 factors on the primary film removal rate is significant. The order of influencing factors is: the space between teeth and squeegee > squeegee angle > automatic removing mechanism angle. The machine is optimized by the function of optimization of Design Expert, the space between teeth and squeegee is 2 mm, the squeegee angle is 70°, and the automatic removing mechanism angle is 60°. Through the field test, which shows the feasibility of the optimization scheme and will provide theoretical basis for the optimization of related machines. The teeth type residue plastic film collector of ridged peanut has a good film removal effect, which meets the design requirements of plastic recyling machine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Notoginseng is one of rare medicinal herbs in China, and it is mainly grown in Yunnan Province. Market demand of notoginseng is very large, and hence, until December 2014, the planting area of notoginseng has reached 40000 hm2. At present, the main planting pattern is through manual operation, and the labor intensity is very high and the sowing quality is discrepant. However, there is no precision seeding device suitable for notoginseng. Therefore, the mechanization planting of notoginseng has important practical significance. Notoginseng is planted on small plots of land, the planting density and the requirement of seeding precision are high, so we designed a small sized precision metering device. The liquidity of the seeds is not good and the shape of seeds is irregular for notoginseng, so we chose the pneumatic seed-metering device to adapt to the characteristics of the seeds accordingly. In order to meet the precision seeding requirements of notoginseng planting, a unique pneumatic cylinder-type precision metering device was designed. This device integrated the features of vacuum suction, insulated pressure for seed-clearing and zero speed of seed dropping. In this paper, the main structure and the working principle of the metering device were expounded. The pitch-row of the hollow shaft was determined and the stability of the flow field was ensured by the flow field analysis through the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. The key structure parameters were determined through theoretical calculation according to planting requirements. The contrast test of dropping seed indicated that zero speed of seed dropping was necessity. According to the extensive testing combined with the experimental results of relevant scholars, the main factors which affected seeding performance of pneumatic cylinder precision seed-metering device were determined, which were forward velocity, negative pressure and adsorption angle. During the test process, in order to reach zero speed of seed dropping, the installation angle of adjustable insulated pressure plate was changed with forward velocity. The notoginseng seeds in Wenshan were chosen for sowing object. Based on the three-factor five-level quadratic orthogonal rotating combination test method, the influences of forward velocity, negative pressure and adsorption angle on sowing performance were explored. The experimental results showed that the influence of negative pressure on the qualified rate was very significant (P<0.01), and the influences of forward velocity and adsorption angle were significant (P<0.05). The regression equations of the 3 factors were fitted through the processing by Design Expert 8.0.6 (experimental design expert) software. Based on the results of examination, we found that the fitting of the equations was good, the best parameter combination was adsorption angle of 20°, negative pressure value of 660-720 Pa and forward velocity of 0.72-0.76 m/s, and under the optimal condition, the qualified index was greater than 90.2, the missing index was less than 4.9, and the multiple index was less than 5.3. The pneumatic cylinder precision seed-metering device met the standard and requirements by comparing the results with the national standard and notoginseng planting requirements. This approach of research is suitable for the exploitation of notoginseng seed-metering, and provides a theoretical reference for the design of pneumatic cylinder precision seed-metering device for Panax notoginseng. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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