{"title":"DESIGN AND TEST OF QUANTITATIVE FERTILIZER FEEDING DEVICE FOR POINT-APPLIED FERTILIZATION DEVICE","authors":"Xin Du, Changqing Liu, Xuhui Li, Wei Zhu, Qixin Sun, Shufa Chen","doi":"10.35633/inmateh-70-38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35633/inmateh-70-38","url":null,"abstract":"To ensure accurate and consistent fertilizer application, the key component of the fertilizer feeding device, the grooved wheel, was designed and theoretically analyzed, and the number of grooves of the fertilizer wheel was determined to be 9. The effects of grooves inclination angle, grooves length and operating speed on the fertilizer feeding performance were analyzed by single-factor tests, and the appropriate range of factors was determined. The effect of the interaction between groove length and operating speed on the amount of fertilizer discharged from the groove was investigated by a full factorial test, and a quadratic regression was fitted to the test results to establish the regression equations of groove length and operating speed on the average fertilizer application per groove and the coefficient of variation of the average fertilizer application per groove, which can be used to predict the average fertilizer application per groove and the coefficient of variation of the average fertilizer application per groove to solve for groove length and operating speed.","PeriodicalId":44197,"journal":{"name":"INMATEH-Agricultural Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42592390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Weiwei Cheng, Yu Wang, Changchao Wang, Tao Wang, Junlin He, Zhouhua Liu
{"title":"STUDY ON THE VARIATION OF THERMAL ENVIRONMENT AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS CHARACTERISTICS OF STRAWBERRY IN A SOLAR GREENHOUSE","authors":"Weiwei Cheng, Yu Wang, Changchao Wang, Tao Wang, Junlin He, Zhouhua Liu","doi":"10.35633/inmateh-70-21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35633/inmateh-70-21","url":null,"abstract":"The sunken solar greenhouse is suitable for the development of vertical planting, which results in higher yield. In order to investigate the effect of temperature on photosynthesis of plants, an experimental study was conducted on the temperature and photosynthesis of strawberry plants at different heights in the sunken solar greenhouse. The study showed that when the indoor temperature was higher than 25.5℃, the photosynthesis of plants was inhibited; the transpiration rate decreased by 3.89 and photosynthesis rate decreased by 3.95 when the air temperature increased from 25.5℃ to 33.3℃ and then decreased to 25.4℃ at a height of 1.8m from the indoor floor; there were temperature differences in the vertical direction between the indoor temperatures of the sunken heliostat. The maximum temperatures at 0 m, 0.6 m, 1.0 m, 1.4 m, and 1.8 m height were 20.6°C, 24.1°C, 25.4°C, 25.4°C, 33, and 3°C, respectively, and different temperatures would have different photosynthetic characteristics of plants. This study can provide basic support for greenhouse regulation.","PeriodicalId":44197,"journal":{"name":"INMATEH-Agricultural Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43116921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhen Wang, Keqing Qian, Xiaoli Zhu, Xinyu Hu, Xinran Li
{"title":"ANALYSIS ON HANDLING PATH OPTIMIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS BASED ON IMPROVED ANT COLONY ALGORITHM","authors":"Zhen Wang, Keqing Qian, Xiaoli Zhu, Xinyu Hu, Xinran Li","doi":"10.35633/inmateh-70-44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35633/inmateh-70-44","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid development of agricultural machinery intelligence and informatization, agricultural robots are becoming the protagonist, promoting standardized production in agriculture, improving efficiency, and reducing labor costs. However, how to quickly plan an efficient and safe path for agricultural transport robots is currently a hot topic in path planning research. In this study, the path optimization problem of agricultural\u0000robots handling agricultural products (such as Edible Fungi) in and out of warehouses, which served as the study object, was solved. First, the number of agricultural handling robots was initialized based on the scanning method, and the geometric center of sub-path nodes was set as the virtual node. Secondly, the optimal path of the virtual node was solved using the improved ant colony algorithm embedded with a genetic operator, and the optimal result of sub-paths was acquired. Thirdly, the optimal solution meeting constraint conditions was obtained with the launch cost, transportation cost, and time cost of agricultural robots as objective functions. Lastly, the effectiveness of the optimization model and the improved ant colony algorithm was verified through the instance analysis. This study is of certain significance to the exwarehousing path optimization of agricultural robots under the sustainable development concept of\u0000agricultural automation.","PeriodicalId":44197,"journal":{"name":"INMATEH-Agricultural Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69904317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Valerian CEREMPEI, Eduard BANARI, Gheorghe POȘTARU, Lucretia POPA
{"title":"TRIBOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE CHROME- GRAY CAST IRON COUPLING WITH LUBRICATION IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS","authors":"Valerian CEREMPEI, Eduard BANARI, Gheorghe POȘTARU, Lucretia POPA","doi":"10.35633/inmateh-70-56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35633/inmateh-70-56","url":null,"abstract":"In the given article, the results of the tribological research of the chrome-gray cast iron coupling are presented, the friction conditions between the cylinder liner and the compression segment being lubricated in various environments are modeled: diesel (control), pure biodiesel B100 and biodiesel-diesel B20 mixture. It was established that the average values of the coefficient of friction in the chrome-gray cast iron coupling, in the case of using biofuels B20, B100 as the lubricating material, are higher in relation to diesel fuel: by 15.6% for B20 and, respectively, by 23.3% for B100. The values of the total wear of the tribological coupling decreased, in relation to diesel, by 36.8% in the case of lubrication with B20 and by 39.5% - with B100.","PeriodicalId":44197,"journal":{"name":"INMATEH-Agricultural Engineering","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136337020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Man Chen, Gong Cheng, Jinshan Xu, Guangyue Zhang, Chengqian Jin
{"title":"ONLINE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR CRUSHED RATE AND IMPURITY RATE OF MECHANIZED SOYBEAN BASED ON DEEPLABV3+","authors":"Man Chen, Gong Cheng, Jinshan Xu, Guangyue Zhang, Chengqian Jin","doi":"10.35633/inmateh-70-48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35633/inmateh-70-48","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, an online detection system of soybean crushed rate and impurity rate based on DeepLabV3+model was constructed. Three feature extraction networks, namely the MobileNetV2, Xception-65, and ResNet-50 models, were adopted to obtain the best DeepLabV3+model through test analysis. Two well-established semantic segmentation networks, the improved U-Net and PSPNet, are used for mechanically harvested soybean image recognition and segmentation, and their performances are compared with the DeepLabV3+ model’s performance. The results show that, of all the models, the improved U-Net has the best segmentation performance, achieving a mean intersection over union (FMIOU) value of 0.8326. The segmentation performance of the DeepLabV3+ model using the MobileNetV2 is similar to that of the U-Net, achieving FMIOU of 0.8180. The DeepLabV3+ model using the MobileNetV2 has a fast segmentation speed of 168.6 ms per image. Taking manual detection results as a benchmark, the maximum absolute and relative errors of the impurity rate of the detection system based on the DeepLabV3+ model with the MobileNetV2 of mechanized soybean harvesting operation are 0.06% and 8.11%, respectively. The maximum absolute and relative errors of the crushed rate of the same system are 0.34% and 9.53%, respectively.","PeriodicalId":44197,"journal":{"name":"INMATEH-Agricultural Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44766864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MEASUREMENT OF PHYSICAL PROPERTY PARAMETERS AND SIMULATIVE CALIBRATION OF DEM PARAMETERS FOR GREEN ONION SEEDS","authors":"Chong Tao, Zhiye Mo, Fang-hai Lu, Zhihe Li, Dianbin Su, Yinping Zhang","doi":"10.35633/inmateh-70-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35633/inmateh-70-13","url":null,"abstract":"The contact parameters setting determines the accuracy of discrete element method (DEM) simulation analysis, while there is a lack of research on contact parameters of green onion seed. In this paper, the physical parameters of green onion seeds were measured by experiment, and the DEM parameters were calibrated by simulation. Based on EDEM software, the Hertz-Mindlin no-slip model was used to create the particle model of green onion seeds that takes on the shape of peltate with the irregular surface, and the repose angle was measured by the measurement method of lifted cylinder. Plackett-Burman test was designed to screen the significance of parameters, and the optimal range of significance parameters was further determined through the steepest climbing test. Then the regression model of seeds repose angle was obtained by Box-Behnken test and the optimal parameter combination was calculated: the static friction factor between seeds was 0.424, the rolling friction factor was 0.085, the static friction factor between seeds and steel was 0.310. The optimized repose angle in the simulation had an overall relative error of 0.54%, indicating that the contact parameters of the calibrated green onion seed had high accuracy.","PeriodicalId":44197,"journal":{"name":"INMATEH-Agricultural Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45671945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VEHICLE PATH OPTIMIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS COLD CHAIN LOGISTICS BASED ON GREEN EVALUATION","authors":"Jinhui Yu, Lili Cheng","doi":"10.35633/inmateh-70-43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35633/inmateh-70-43","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of the economy and society and the improvement of living standards, the demand for fresh products is increasing, and the huge demand has driven the rapid growth of fresh products in China. However, fresh products are prone to spoilage and wear, and higher transportation requirements are put forward to ensure product quality. Based on this, the transportation function of cold chain logistics vehicles on farm products cold chain logistics greatly improves the cold chain transportation efficiency of agricultural products. Aiming at the vehicle path problem of cold chain logistics distribution and under multiple refrigerated trucks, a single distribution center, and multiple commodity types, a path optimization model of\u0000cold chain logistics vehicles was established with the optimal evaluation of total distribution cost and distribution vehicles as the objective considering the economy, greenness, and sustainability of vehicles. Then, an evaluation index system of refrigerated trucks consisting of cost index, environmental index and quality index was established, an AHP-TOPSIS (Analytic Hierarchy Process, Technique for Order Preference\u0000by Similarity to an Ideal Solution) evaluation model of refrigerated trucks was constructed, and the comprehensive evaluation value of refrigerated trucks was obtained. On the basis of vehicle evaluation results, the corresponding vehicle path optimization model of agricultural cold chain logistics was established, the large-scale neighborhood search SA algorithm was designed to solve an example, and the\u0000optimization model was compared with the optimization model without considering vehicle evaluation. The experimental results show that considering the vehicle evaluation factors can effectively reduce the distribution cost, and increasing the vehicle evaluation weight can effectively improve the greenness and sustainability of the distribution fleet.","PeriodicalId":44197,"journal":{"name":"INMATEH-Agricultural Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44092238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DESIGN AND EXPERIMENT OF SMALL VEGETABLE SEEDER WITH SINGLE DISC MULTI-ROW SEEDING AND INDEPENDENT AIRWAY","authors":"Yin-ping Zhang, Xin Yang, Xiaoran Li, Zhenwei Wang, Hua Zhou, Jiasheng Wang","doi":"10.35633/inmateh-70-03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35633/inmateh-70-03","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a small pneumatic vegetable precision seeder suitable for facility greenhouses was designed. Based on the traditional positive and negative pressure seed-metering device, the airway disc structure was designed, and the negative pressure air chamber was divided into three separate air chambers. The separate\u0000air chambers could solve the problems of high-pressure requirements of traditional seed-metering device with large air chamber and suitable for small power machineries more. One, two, or three rows drill can be completed by replacing the seed plate and divider. The seed discharge process of the seed-metering device was analyzed and the bench test was performed. Results showed that the required pressure of the seedmetering device with the airway disk was 1 kPa less than traditional seed-metering device with large air chamber when the eligible rate of seed discharge was 95%. Field experiments were performed, results showed that the best performance were achieved under the speed of 3 km/h, for 3.72 % missed, 1.93% repeat and 94.35 % of inner ring, and 5.72%, 1.87% and 92.41% respectively of outer, meeting the requirements for vegetable seeding.","PeriodicalId":44197,"journal":{"name":"INMATEH-Agricultural Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47444924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IMPROVEMENT DESIGN AND SIMULATION ANALYSIS ON CENTRIFUGAL DISC ORGANIC FERTILIZER SPREADER","authors":"Bing Xu, Qingliang Cui, Decong Zheng","doi":"10.35633/inmateh-70-32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35633/inmateh-70-32","url":null,"abstract":"Aiming at the poor efficiency in crushing a handful of caking organic fertilizers spraying from the traditional disc spreader, an improved disc spreader equipped with spike-tooth crushing unit was designed with the introduction of its structural composition and working principle. Also simulation experiments were carried out based on the discrete element method according to the solutions made before and after the structural improvement. Firstly, a granular organic fertilizer model was established based on the EDEM and a caking organic fertilizer bonding model was built based on the HMB (Hertz-Mindlin with bonding) contact model. Then two organic fertilizer spreading models corresponding to the solutions were respectively established, based on which simulation experiments were repeated three times on the spreading process. The analysis on the particle velocity vector diagram revealed the interaction relationship between organic fertilizers with the toothed shaft, external wall and disk, verifying the crushing mechanism of crushing unit. By calculating the total number of the bonds generated and broken in the spreading process in both of the spreading models, the average broken rate of bonds in the spreading process was separately 58.87% and 98.05% based on each solution, revealing that the improved solution outperformed the traditional solution in terms of the efficiency in crushing the caking organic fertilizers. This research will be a reference in designing the critical components or improving the overall performance of disc spreader.","PeriodicalId":44197,"journal":{"name":"INMATEH-Agricultural Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48259321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Bulgakov, S. Ivanovs, Volodymyr Kuvachоv, Lucretia Popa, Igor Sivak, O. Trokhaniak, Y. Ihnatiev
{"title":"DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED METHODOLOGY OF EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON OSCILLATION PROCESSES INTENSITY FOR MACHINE-TRACTOR UNITS","authors":"V. Bulgakov, S. Ivanovs, Volodymyr Kuvachоv, Lucretia Popa, Igor Sivak, O. Trokhaniak, Y. Ihnatiev","doi":"10.35633/inmateh-70-34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35633/inmateh-70-34","url":null,"abstract":"An important operational indicator of agricultural machine-tractor units is the smoothness of movement, which significantly affects the traction and dynamic performance of their work, productivity, agronomic qualities of the operation, traffic safety, durability and efficiency. As a rule, it is evaluated by the influence of oscillations (translational vertical, transverse, angular longitudinal, etc.), on these indicators, as well as on the physical condition and health of operators who control these units in real production conditions. This article presents an improved method and results of experimental assessment of the smoothness of the movement of the modular agricultural unit, which moves in the footsteps of a constant technological track. Studies of the smoothness of the modular unit showed that the graphs of normalized correlation functions of vertical oscillations of the modular agricultural tool developed by us in its motion in the wake of a constant techno-logical track is characterized by a function containing along with random components harmonic, which are expressed by attenuating periodic oscillations. The range of frequencies of oscillations of the frame of the agricultural tool is concentrated in the range from 0 tо 20 s−1, which is consistent with the frequency range 0…0.3 s−1 in which the variances of oscillations of inequalities of a profile of traces of a technological track are concentrated. Studies have confirmed the effectiveness of the method of estimating the intensity of vertical oscillations of the agricultural unit measuring and recording system based on a tablet computer with Android operating system with built-in accelerometer sensors and Accelerometer Meter application. The developed technique of mathematical modelling and experimental determination of vertical oscillations of the machine-tractor unit can be used in the study of the dynamics of other agricultural machines and units.","PeriodicalId":44197,"journal":{"name":"INMATEH-Agricultural Engineering","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42868533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}