Development of plug-in grafting robotic system

Author

Nishiura, Y. ; Murase, H. ; Honami, N. ; Taira, T.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Agric., Osaka Prefectural Univ., Sakai, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1995

fDate

21-27 May 1995

Firstpage

2510

Abstract

This study attempts to develop an automatic production system for grafted seedlings on the basis of the “plug-in method”. The procedures of the “plug-in method” are as follows: 1) for the scion, a stem is shaped in a form of plug similar to a pencil-tip; and 2) for the stock, a stem is drilled to make a conical hole. We have constructed a grafting robot system to perform the “plug-in method” on the basis of the seedling characteristics and the structure and physical properties inside the stem. It has been demonstrated that the proposed technique of cutting vegetative materials using an ultrasonic level vibrating blade can reduce the damage to the vegetative tissue when cutting

Keywords

agriculture; cutting; process control; robots; ultrasonic applications; agricultural robot; grafted seedlings; grafting robotic system; plug-in method; scion; ultrasonic vibrating blade; vegetative material cutting; Agriculture; Biological materials; Blades; Frequency; Plants (biology); Plugs; Production systems; Robotics and automation; Robots; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1995. Proceedings., 1995 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nagoya

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1965-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1995.525636

Filename

525636