Design and Simulation for Key Components of Robotic Flower-Seedling Transplanter

Abstract:

In order to improve the mechanical transplanting for flower seedling, a new robotic transplanter was introduced. The design of two key parts, grasper and transit unit, was emphasized. The grasper driven by a ring-shaped spring, was used to pick the seedling at its root from the tray-hole, and the elastic holding-pressure was easily adjustable, and advantageous to prevent rigid hurt on seedling root. The module of toothed belt and guide rail was applied in the transit unit to carry and locate the graspers, and the module is appropriate to the transplanting operation of less vibration and higher efficiency. Finally, the performance of driving elements for grasper and transit unit was verified, according to the simulated result on the virtual prototype based on ADAMS.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 680)
• Pages: 387-391
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.680.387
• Online since: April 2013
• Authors: Xiu Wang, Qing Chun Feng
• Keywords: Flower Seedling, Grasper Machine Vision, Kinetic Simulation, Transplanter

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