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AU - Chen, Yifei
AU - Jiang, Li
AU - Wang, Shuo
AU - Luo, Wenjie
AU - Shoukat, Muhammad Rizwan
AU - Han, Mengxue
AU - Yang, Huimin
PY - 2025
DA - 2025/12/28
TI - Design and Testing of an Intelligent Cut-and-Harvest Machine for Apocynum Venetum
JO - Digital Intelligence in Agriculture
T2 - Digital Intelligence in Agriculture
JF - Digital Intelligence in Agriculture
VL - 1
IS - 2
SP - 96
EP - 109
DO - 10.62762/DIA.2025.327734
UR - https://www.icck.org/article/abs/DIA.2025.327734
KW - apocynum venetum
KW - cutting-bundling harvester
KW - bundling mechanism
KW - integrated navigation system
KW - mechanized harvesting
KW - anti-clogging conveyance
AB - Apocynum venetum has clustered, highly branched stems with strong phloem fiber adhesion, which makes mechanical harvesting prone to entanglement, grip slippage, conveyance blockage, and uneven, high stubble. Existing cutting and bundling machines do not match this morphology well and cannot meet both low-stubble and anti-clogging requirements. To address these problems, an integrated Apocynum venetum cutting-bundling harvester was developed that combines a reciprocating cutting mechanism, stem-folding assembly, vertical anti-clogging conveyor at the cutting table, height-adjustable crop-plate compaction device, and cord-based bundling mechanism, which was supported by a combined navigation system integrating BeiDou satellite navigation and inertial navigation. Field trials in Xinjiang demonstrated that the prototype achieved a mean stubble height of 12.4 cm, a blockage incidence of 0.30 events per hour, a bundling success rate of 98\%, a fiber damage rate of 0.8\% and a harvesting efficiency of 0.0537 ha h\(^{-1}\), meeting ISO 11279:2021 performance thresholds. The coordinated action of the cutting, folding, conveying, and bundling subsystems improved the throughput and maintained stable machine operation under clustered growth conditions. These results indicate that the developed prototype harvester is technically feasible and agronomically suitable for large-scale Apocynum venetum production. The intelligent Apocynum baling harvester can enhance the automatic driving functionality of agricultural machinery, improve the operational quality of agricultural machinery navigation, and thereby comprehensively increase harvesting efficiency.
SN - 3069-3187
PB - Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge
LA - English
ER -
@article{Chen2025Design,
author = {Yifei Chen and Li Jiang and Shuo Wang and Wenjie Luo and Muhammad Rizwan Shoukat and Mengxue Han and Huimin Yang},
title = {Design and Testing of an Intelligent Cut-and-Harvest Machine for Apocynum Venetum},
journal = {Digital Intelligence in Agriculture},
year = {2025},
volume = {1},
number = {2},
pages = {96-109},
doi = {10.62762/DIA.2025.327734},
url = {https://www.icck.org/article/abs/DIA.2025.327734},
abstract = {Apocynum venetum has clustered, highly branched stems with strong phloem fiber adhesion, which makes mechanical harvesting prone to entanglement, grip slippage, conveyance blockage, and uneven, high stubble. Existing cutting and bundling machines do not match this morphology well and cannot meet both low-stubble and anti-clogging requirements. To address these problems, an integrated Apocynum venetum cutting-bundling harvester was developed that combines a reciprocating cutting mechanism, stem-folding assembly, vertical anti-clogging conveyor at the cutting table, height-adjustable crop-plate compaction device, and cord-based bundling mechanism, which was supported by a combined navigation system integrating BeiDou satellite navigation and inertial navigation. Field trials in Xinjiang demonstrated that the prototype achieved a mean stubble height of 12.4 cm, a blockage incidence of 0.30 events per hour, a bundling success rate of 98\\%, a fiber damage rate of 0.8\\% and a harvesting efficiency of 0.0537 ha h\(^{-1}\), meeting ISO 11279:2021 performance thresholds. The coordinated action of the cutting, folding, conveying, and bundling subsystems improved the throughput and maintained stable machine operation under clustered growth conditions. These results indicate that the developed prototype harvester is technically feasible and agronomically suitable for large-scale Apocynum venetum production. The intelligent Apocynum baling harvester can enhance the automatic driving functionality of agricultural machinery, improve the operational quality of agricultural machinery navigation, and thereby comprehensively increase harvesting efficiency.},
keywords = {apocynum venetum, cutting-bundling harvester, bundling mechanism, integrated navigation system, mechanized harvesting, anti-clogging conveyance},
issn = {3069-3187},
publisher = {Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge}
}
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