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{"title":"Design and test of the bilateral throwing soil-covering device for straw mulching machine in orchards","authors":"Xinhua Zhu, Xianghe Gao, Xudong Li, Shaojie Xu","doi":"10.25165/j.ijabe.20231601.7010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25165/j.ijabe.20231601.7010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13895,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72426716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multi-class detection of cherry tomatoes using improved YOLOv4-Tiny","authors":"Fu Zhang, Zijun Chen, Shaukat Ali, Ning Yang, Sanling Fu, Yakun Zhang","doi":"10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.7744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.7744","url":null,"abstract":": The rapid and accurate detection of cherry tomatoes is of great significance to realizing automatic picking by robots. However, so far, cherry tomatoes are detected as only one class for picking. Fruits occluded by branches or leaves are detected as pickable objects, which may cause damage to the plant or robot end-effector during picking. This study proposed the Feature Enhancement Network Block (FENB) based on YOLOv4-Tiny to solve the above problem. Firstly, according to the distribution characteristics and picking strategies of cherry tomatoes, cherry tomatoes were divided into four classes in the nighttime, and daytime included not occluded, occluded by branches, occluded by fruits, and occluded by leaves. Secondly, the CSPNet structure with the hybrid attention mechanism was used to design the FENB, which pays more attention to the effective features of different classes of cherry tomatoes while retaining the original features. Finally, the Feature Enhancement Network (FEN) was constructed based on the FENB to enhance the feature extraction ability and improve the detection accuracy of YOLOv4-Tiny. The experimental results show that under the confidence of 0.5, average precision (AP) of non-occluded, branch-occluded, fruit-occluded, and leaf-occluded fruit over the day test images were 95.86%, 92.59%, 89.66%, and 84.99%, respectively, which were 98.43%, 95.62%, 95.50%, and 89.33% on the night test images, respectively. The mean Average Precision (mAP) of four classes over the night test set was higher (94.72%) than that of the day (90.78%), which were both better than YOLOv4 and YOLOv4-Tiny. It cost 32.22 ms to process a 416×416 image on the GPU. The model size was 39.34 MB. Therefore, the proposed model can provide a practical and feasible method for the multi-class detection of cherry tomatoes.","PeriodicalId":13895,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering","volume":"5 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72589477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nitrogen use in double cropping soybean with non-fertilized winter oilseed crops","authors":"Ronghao Liu, Stephen Gregg, A. Garcia y Garcia","doi":"10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.7547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.7547","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13895,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80167016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Downwash airflow field distribution characteristics and their effect on the spray field distribution of the DJI T30 six-rotor plant protection UAV","authors":"Haiyan Zhang, Sheng Wen, Chunling Chen, Q. Liu, Tongyu Xu, Shengde Chen, Y. Lan","doi":"10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.8094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.8094","url":null,"abstract":": Spray characteristics are the fundamental factors that affect droplet transportation downward, deposition, and drift. The downwash airflow field of the Unmanned Aviation Vehicle (UAV) primarily influences droplet deposition and drift by changing the spray characteristics. This study focused mainly on the effect of the downwash airflow field of the UAV and nozzle position on the droplet spatial distribution and velocity distribution, which are two factors of spray characteristics. To study the abovementioned characteristics, computational fluid dynamics based on the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) was used to simulate the downwash airflow field of the DJI T30 six-rotor plant protection UAV at different rotor rotational speeds (1000-1800 r/min). A particle image velocimetry system (PIV) was utilized to record the spray field with the downwash airflow field at different rotational speeds of rotors (0-1800 r/min) or different nozzle positions (0, 0.20 m, 0.35 m, and 0.50 m from the motor). The simulation and experimental results showed that the rotor downwash airflow field exhibited the ‘ dispersion-shrinkage-redispersion’ development rule. In the initial dispersion stage of rotor airflow, there were obvious high-vorticity and low-vorticity regions in the rotor downwash airflow field. Moreover, the low-vorticity region was primarily concentrated below the motor, and the high-vorticity region was mainly focused in the middle area of the rotors. Additionally, the Y -direction airflow velocity fluctuated at 0.4-1.2 m under the rotor. When the rotor airflow developed to 3.2 m below the rotor, the Y - direction airflow velocity showed a slight decrease. Above 3.2 m from the rotor, the Y -direction airflow velocity started to drastically decrease. Therefore, it is recommended that the DJI T30 plant protection UAV should not exceed 3.2 m in flight height during field spraying operations. The rotor downwash airflow field caused the nozzle atomization angle, droplet concentration, and spray field width to decrease while increasing the vortex scale in the spray field when the rotor system was activated. Moreover, the increase in rotor rotational speed promoted the abovementioned trend. When the nozzle was installed in various radial locations below the rotor, the droplet spatial distribution and velocity distribution were completely different. When the nozzle was installed directly below the motor, the droplet spatial distribution and velocity distribution were relatively symmetrical. When the nozzle was installed at 0.20 m and 0.35 m from the motor, the droplets clearly moved toward the right under the induction of stronger rotor vortices. This resulted in a higher droplet concentration in the right-half spray field. However, the droplet moved toward the left when the nozzle was installed in the rotor tip. For four nozzle positions, when the nozzle was installed at 0 or 0.20 m from the motor, the droplet average velocity was much higher. However, the droplet","PeriodicalId":13895,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering","volume":"218 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80175732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigation of distribution uniformity of distributor for biogas slurry application based on CFD analysis","authors":"Jingjing Fu, Yongsheng Chen, Binxing Xu, Biao Ma, Pengjun Wang, A. Wu, Mingjiang Chen","doi":"10.25165/j.ijabe.20231601.7460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25165/j.ijabe.20231601.7460","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13895,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86522500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Airflow distribution law of multi-branch pipe of pneumatic rice direct seeder based on dimensional analysis","authors":"W. Qin, Zaimang Wang, Minghua Zhang, Siyu He, Xuguo Wang, Youcong Jiang, Zishun Huang, Ying Zang","doi":"10.25165/j.ijabe.20231601.7663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25165/j.ijabe.20231601.7663","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13895,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85325910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Method for the automatic recognition of cropland headland images based on deep learning","authors":"Yujie Qiao, Hui Liu, Zhijun Meng, Jingping Chen, Luyao Ma","doi":"10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.6195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.6195","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13895,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83921014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of the nonmarket value of livestock and poultry feces returning to farmland utilization using CVM in Heilongjiang, China","authors":"Jiajie Shang, Yongtao Xie, Lifeng Guo, Jinxia Fan, Hongxin Liu","doi":"10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.7588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.7588","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13895,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78184659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of self-healing biomimetic subsoiler on tillage resistance, wear-corrosion performance and soil disturbance morphology under different soil types","authors":"Yueming Wang, Chenjie Lu, Jing Chen, Chenhuan Cui, Yijie Pan, Wilhelm Pfleging, Jiyu Sun","doi":"10.25165/j.ijabe.20231603.7876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25165/j.ijabe.20231603.7876","url":null,"abstract":"Subsoiling has been widely used all over the world as an important operation method of no-tillage farming. For energy-saving and life-extension, the tillage resistance and wear-corrosion of subsoilers have attracted wide attention. In this study, the tillage resistance, soil disturbance, wear and corrosion of subsoiler with S-T-SK-2# biomimetic structures (S means subsoiler; T means tine; SK means shank; 2#, h/s=0.57, h=5 mm and α=45°.) and self-healing coating under two seasons, two locations with different soil properties (black loam and clay soil) and subsoiling speeds (2 km/h and 3.6 km/h) were investigated. The soil moisture content and compactness affected the tillage resistance and wear-corrosion. The tillage resistance and degree of corrosion on all subsoilers were much larger in clay soil than that in black loam soil. Compared with S-T-SK-2#, the tillage reduction rate of C-S-T-SK-2# (S-T-SK-2# with self-healing coating) was up to 14.32% in clay soil under the speed of 2 km/h. The significance tests of regression equation results showed that subsoiler type and soil properties had a significant impact on soil disturbance coefficient, swelling of total soil layer, bulkiness of the plough pan. It is of a guiding significance for the analysis of soil disturbance. Synergism mechanism of subsoiler coupling with biomimetic structures and self-healing coating was analyzed in following. It depicted the guiding effect of biomimetic structure and the shield function of self-healing coating, resulting in anticorrosion and wear resistance of subsoiler. Keywords: soil types, tillage resistance, wear-corrosion, soil disturbance, self-healing DOI: 10.25165/j.ijabe.20231603.7876 Citation: Wang Y M, Lu C J, Chen J, Cui C H, Pan Y J, Pfleging W, et al. Effects of self-healing biomimetic subsoiler on tillage resistance, wear-corrosion performance and soil disturbance morphology under different soil types. Int J Agric & Biol Eng, 2023; 16(3): 7–14.","PeriodicalId":13895,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135357562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Automatic detection of sow estrus using a lightweight real-time detector and thermal images","authors":"Haibo Zheng, Hang Zhang, Shuang Song, Yue Wang, Tonghai Liu","doi":"10.25165/j.ijabe.20231603.7711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25165/j.ijabe.20231603.7711","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13895,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135361583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}