A Seedling Collection Unit of a Mobile Automatic Device for Forest Tree Planting—An Extended Operating Concept
Agrotechnological procedures related to forest management, including planting, are burdensome and the energy expenditure of the people working is very high. Nowadays, planting is usually carried out manually, and sometimes with the use of planters coupled to universal tractors. Occasionally, planter...
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| author | Sebastian Sobocki Florian Adamczyk Paweł Tylek Michał Szaroleta Kamil Żurowski Mariusz Kormanek Grzegorz Szewczyk Sylwester Tabor Mikołaj Zwierzyński Michał Kaźmierczak Jarosław Mac |
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| description | Agrotechnological procedures related to forest management, including planting, are burdensome and the energy expenditure of the people working is very high. Nowadays, planting is usually carried out manually, and sometimes with the use of planters coupled to universal tractors. Occasionally, planters mounted on high-power carriers are used, and usually the seedlings are removed from their cassettes and placed manually into the planter’s storage unit. In connection with the above, the prototype of a mobile automatic device for performing forest regeneration tasks and afforestation of post-agricultural and reclaimed areas (RoboFoR) was designed. The main task of this vehicle is planting forest tree seedlings with a covered root system, which are collected directly from their nursery cassettes. This study presents the structure, principle of operation and results of operational tests of the seedling storage and feeding unit. It was found that the unit achieved the expected work efficiency. However, imperfections in the system related to the non-centralized distribution of seedlings in containers and the high variability of biometric characteristics of the seedlings were also identified. A new solution for this unit was proposed, which will increase the reliability of collecting the seedlings. A new solution requires greater computational power of the control unit as well as equipping the sensor system with a technologically advanced root neck detection system. The new concept also assumes the possibility of independent movement of each gripper. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c114b256bf134a7abd50dbda6ca57a5d2023-12-22T14:09:43ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072023-12-011412242010.3390/f14122420A Seedling Collection Unit of a Mobile Automatic Device for Forest Tree Planting—An Extended Operating ConceptSebastian Sobocki0Florian Adamczyk1Paweł Tylek2Michał Szaroleta3Kamil Żurowski4Mariusz Kormanek5Grzegorz Szewczyk6Sylwester Tabor7Mikołaj Zwierzyński8Michał Kaźmierczak9Jarosław Mac10Center of Agricultural and Food Technology, Łukasiewicz Research Network-Poznań Institute of Technology, Starolecka 31 Street, 60-963 Poznan, PolandCenter of Agricultural and Food Technology, Łukasiewicz Research Network-Poznań Institute of Technology, Starolecka 31 Street, 60-963 Poznan, PolandDepartment of Forest Utilization Engineering and Forest Technology, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Al. 29 Listopada 46 Street, 31-423 Krakow, PolandCenter of Agricultural and Food Technology, Łukasiewicz Research Network-Poznań Institute of Technology, Starolecka 31 Street, 60-963 Poznan, PolandCenter of Agricultural and Food Technology, Łukasiewicz Research Network-Poznań Institute of Technology, Starolecka 31 Street, 60-963 Poznan, PolandDepartment of Forest Utilization Engineering and Forest Technology, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Al. 29 Listopada 46 Street, 31-423 Krakow, PolandDepartment of Forest Utilization Engineering and Forest Technology, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Al. 29 Listopada 46 Street, 31-423 Krakow, PolandDepartment of Production Engineering, Logistics and Applied Computer Science, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Balicka 116 b Street, 30-149 Krakow, PolandCenter of Agricultural and Food Technology, Łukasiewicz Research Network-Poznań Institute of Technology, Starolecka 31 Street, 60-963 Poznan, PolandCenter of Agricultural and Food Technology, Łukasiewicz Research Network-Poznań Institute of Technology, Starolecka 31 Street, 60-963 Poznan, PolandCenter of Agricultural and Food Technology, Łukasiewicz Research Network-Poznań Institute of Technology, Starolecka 31 Street, 60-963 Poznan, PolandAgrotechnological procedures related to forest management, including planting, are burdensome and the energy expenditure of the people working is very high. Nowadays, planting is usually carried out manually, and sometimes with the use of planters coupled to universal tractors. Occasionally, planters mounted on high-power carriers are used, and usually the seedlings are removed from their cassettes and placed manually into the planter’s storage unit. In connection with the above, the prototype of a mobile automatic device for performing forest regeneration tasks and afforestation of post-agricultural and reclaimed areas (RoboFoR) was designed. The main task of this vehicle is planting forest tree seedlings with a covered root system, which are collected directly from their nursery cassettes. This study presents the structure, principle of operation and results of operational tests of the seedling storage and feeding unit. It was found that the unit achieved the expected work efficiency. However, imperfections in the system related to the non-centralized distribution of seedlings in containers and the high variability of biometric characteristics of the seedlings were also identified. A new solution for this unit was proposed, which will increase the reliability of collecting the seedlings. A new solution requires greater computational power of the control unit as well as equipping the sensor system with a technologically advanced root neck detection system. The new concept also assumes the possibility of independent movement of each gripper.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/12/2420forest regenerationplanterautomationadaptive control |
| spellingShingle | Sebastian Sobocki Florian Adamczyk Paweł Tylek Michał Szaroleta Kamil Żurowski Mariusz Kormanek Grzegorz Szewczyk Sylwester Tabor Mikołaj Zwierzyński Michał Kaźmierczak Jarosław Mac A Seedling Collection Unit of a Mobile Automatic Device for Forest Tree Planting—An Extended Operating Concept Forests forest regeneration planter automation adaptive control |
| title | A Seedling Collection Unit of a Mobile Automatic Device for Forest Tree Planting—An Extended Operating Concept |
| title_full | A Seedling Collection Unit of a Mobile Automatic Device for Forest Tree Planting—An Extended Operating Concept |
| title_fullStr | A Seedling Collection Unit of a Mobile Automatic Device for Forest Tree Planting—An Extended Operating Concept |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Seedling Collection Unit of a Mobile Automatic Device for Forest Tree Planting—An Extended Operating Concept |
| title_short | A Seedling Collection Unit of a Mobile Automatic Device for Forest Tree Planting—An Extended Operating Concept |
| title_sort | seedling collection unit of a mobile automatic device for forest tree planting an extended operating concept |
| topic | forest regeneration planter automation adaptive control |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/12/2420 |
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