Mechanical Design and Test for a Sapling Grafting Robot Based on Cleft Method

Abstract

Seedlings grafting could accelerate fine species breeding,improve fruit quality,and enhance the abilities to adapt to the environment.Currently seedlings are still grafted by the traditional manual way.Therefore,according to the sapling grafting operations by hand,a sapling grafting robot was developed to realize sapling automatic grafting based on cleft method.The developed grafting robot can clip,move,position,cut,and graft sapling,which is a fundamental work for developing new products.Experiments showed that the developed sapling graft robot for the stock cutting efficiency is 94%,scion cutting efficiency is 93% and grafting efficiency is 86%.