• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
• /
• 제30권3호
• /
• pp.135-140
• /
• 2005

Vegetable transplanting operation has been wholly depended on human labor that needs 18.4 hrs per 10 acres in Korea. Since periods of vegetable transplanting operations are limited, their mechanization has been strongly demanded. This study was conducted to develop a transplanting device that was the core technology for vegetable transplanter. In order to find out transplanting track and velocity of transplanting device, a kinematic analysis software was employed. Evaluation of prototype was carried out in the circular soil bin with high speed camera. Rotary type transplanting device produced an elliptic loci when two links of different lengths were moving to the opposite direction. The length of two links was 75mm and 44mm, respectively. Maximum displacement of rotary type transplanting device was 238mm. It seemed that the transplanting elliptic loci of transplanting device were identical between the simulation output generated by kinematic analysis software and the circular soil bin test result with a high speed camera. The rotary type transplanting device can be suitable fur transplanting short height vegetable, less than 20 cm length vegetables such as Chinese cabbage and cabbage, etc.

• 농업생명과학연구
• /
• 제52권6호
• /
• pp.127-138
• /
• 2018

본 연구에서는 국내에서 주로 사용되는 채소 정식기를 대상으로 전체적인 작동 특성을 분석하였다. 식부장치 거동에 영향을 주는 주요 구성요소 및 동력전달경로를 파악하였으며, 식부장치의 링크 구조를 기구적으로 분석하고 3D모델링 및 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 이를 바탕으로 식부호퍼 극하단점의 궤적을 분석하였다. 또한 엔진회전속도 및 식부변속단수 변화에 따른 주간거리를 도출하고 필드시험을 통해 검증하였다. 주요 결과로써, 식부장치는 10개의 링크와 13개의 회전 조인트로 구성된 1 자유도의 기구이며 각 부분들은 4절 링크식으로 구성되어 있었다. 링크장치의 거동에 의해 식부호퍼는 일정한 자세를 유지하면서 연직 방향으로 묘를 심어준다. 동력은 엔진을 통해 주행부 및 식부로 전달되었으며 식부장치의 최대 및 최소 주간거리는 각각 428.97mm, 261.20mm로 나타났다.

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
• /
• 제5권2호
• /
• pp.45-49
• /
• 2004

Objective of the study was to develop a garlic clove metering device. The metering device consisted of a drum, a bucket and a bucket cover. A garlic clove simulator was designed to simulate motions of garlic cloves in the metering device. Simulation was performed using a multibody dynamic analysis program, RecurDyn version 5.1. Physical properties of garlic cloves such as mass and center of gravity were determined using 3D CAD modeler, IDEAS version 10.0. In order to compare the results of the simulation with actual movement of a garlic, movement of garlic clove was photographed by a high speed camera. A prototype metering device was built and tested under various metering speeds and metering guide angles. At the 12 rpm metering speed, rate of single-clove-discharge was $90.0\%$ and missing rate $1.3\%$ at $5^{\circ}$.

• 농업생명과학연구
• /
• 제53권4호
• /
• pp.113-124
• /
• 2019

본 연구에서는 국내 밭작물 재배농가에서 주로 사용되는 캠방식 채소 정식기를 대상으로 작동특성 및 식부장치 작동 메커니즘 분석을 수행하였다. 정식기의 주요 구성요소 및 동력전달경로를 파악하였으며, 주행속도 및 주간거리 단수 변화에 따른 최대 및 최소 작동주기를 도출하였다. 이를 바탕으로 3D모델링 및 시뮬레이션을 수행하여 식부호퍼 극하단점의 궤적 및 조건별 주간거리를 도출하였으며 필드시험을 통해 실제 주간거리와 비교 검증하였다. 주요 결과로써, 식부장치는 13개의 링크와 17개의 회전 조인트 및 1개의 하프 조인트로 구성된 1 자유도의 기구이며, 각 부분들은 캠과 링크장치들의 복합구조를 갖는다. 식부장치 요소들의 연속적이고 반복적인 운동에 의해 식부호퍼는 지면과 연직인 자세를 유지하며 묘를 안정적으로 정식한다. 동력은 엔진과 변속기를 통해 주행부 및 식부장치로 전달되었으며 식부장치의 최대 및 최소 주간거리는 각각 약 900 mm 및 350 mm이다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
• /
• 제25권1호
• /
• pp.19-24
• /
• 2000

This study was carried out to develop gripper which to adaptive variable tray and to develop automatic transplanting system for seedling-production system between tray. This system consisted of five set of gripper and end-effector, a planting-width control unit, a tray transfer unit, and gripper moving device which move gripper between nursing tray and growing tray. This system used push-out rod to grasp plant instead of pull-out end -effector. Several types of fingers, which physically grip seedlings, were also developed and tested to ensure reliable transplanting operation of the gripper. The transplanting system detaches seedlings from a tray with push-o0ut rods, which were installed under the tray transfer unit. The performance of the transplanting system was evaluated by successive transplanting experiments. Using the best type of finger , the transplanting system produced 94.6% of transplanting success rate.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
• /
• 제37권3호
• /
• pp.201-208
• /
• 2012

Purpose: This study was conducted to develop a vegetable transplanting robot which transplants seedlings from a nursery tray to a plant pot using its four fingers. Method: The robot consists of the transplanting part, nursery tray moving part, plant pot moving part, main frame and controller. Two moving parts are controlled by the photo sensor and servo motor. The transplanting part was composed with two components; transporting device using E-MY2H(SMC Corp., Japan) for controlling finger position accurately and finger for transplanting the seedling. Results: Head lettuce using the transplanting robot was transplanted in 21 days after sowing based upon the seed shape measurement and removing examination. The optimal finger shape was thin pin type because it caused minimum damage to the roots of seedlings. Conclusions: The four inclined pin type was applied to remove the seedlings from the nursery tray. In addition, the transplanting capacity of the developed robot was 2800 pots per hour and the rate of success was 99% and above.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
• /
• 제30권2호
• /
• pp.81-88
• /
• 2005

Manual transplanting Chinese cabbage needs 184 hours per ha in Korea. Mechanization of Chinese cabbage transplanting operation has been highly required because it needs highly intensive labor during peak season. This study was conducted to developed walking-type Chinese cabbage transplanter. In order to find out design factor of the transplanter, a kinematic analysis software, RecurDyn, was used. The prototype was tested in the circular soil bin and its operating motion was captured and analyzed using high speed camera system. Prototype was one row type which utilized original parts of engine, transmission and etc. from walking-type rice transplanter in order to save the manufacturing cost. Success ratio of pick-up device of hole-pin type and latch type were $96.0\%$ and $99.2\%$, respectively. which was highly affected by feeding accuracy of feeding device of seedling. Transplanting device of the prototype produced a elliptic loci which were coincident with those produced by the computer simulation. Prototype proved good performance in transplanting with mulching and without mulching operation, either. Working performance of prototype was 22 hours per ha and operation cost of the prototype was 961,757 won per ha. So, it would reduce $88\%$ of the labor and $29\%$ of operation cost.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국농업기계학회 1996년도 International Conference on Agricultural Machinery Engineering Proceedings
• /
• pp.1021-1030
• /
• 1996

The mechanism of the mulch film cutter assembly designed as an integral part of a rice transplanting device was developed for mulching cultivation of early season culture rice. This mulch film cutter assembly was directly attached to the transplanting device of the rotary type Japanese transplanter. The principle is that the knife cut a planting slit on the polyethylene film while the planting finger immediately plants seedling into the soil through the planting slit. Computer results implied that the knife of the mulch film cutter assembly can make appropriate planting slit on the polyethylene film as the planting finger effectively plants the seedlings into the paddy soil through the same planting slits.

• 한국농업기계학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국농업기계학회 2001년도 하계 학술대회 논문집
• /
• pp.27-32
• /
• 2001

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
• /
• 제35권1호
• /
• pp.37-45
• /
• 2010

Since SRC (Short-term Rotation Coppice) such as poplar and willow can be harvested in three years, they are known to be a potential forest biomass as fuel for a power plant. The production system including transplanting and harvesting is, however, necessary to be mechanized because such a biomass should be handled in a massive volumetric size. A pull-type stem-cutting transplanter was developed in the research as the first step to realize the production of SRC. A needle-like transplanting device pushes a stem-cutting into the prepared soil bed by a pneumatic cylinder, and another device firms soil around a stem-cutting transplanted. Since this is an intermittent operation, it was necessary to develop a zero horizontal velocity mechanism which enabled only the transplanting needle part to continue a zero horizontal movement relative to the ground during the transplanting operation even when the tractor kept moving forward. The 2-row transplanter can transplant stem-cuttings at the rate of 6.5 seconds per row without missing a single attempt. The planting depth and distance were well maintained and controlled. Their CVs were between 2.1~3.4% and 0.87~1.7% for the depth and the distance, respectively. Although, the transplanted stem-cuttings tended to lean outward from the back-view and forward from the side view, they were planted within the range of $3^{\circ}$ from the upright position.