Development of a Tubing-Grafting Robotic System for Fruit-bearing Vegetable Seedlings
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This research aims to develop an automatic tubing-grafting robotic system using soft rubber tubes as the grafting material that is suitable for the rootstock and scion of fruit-bearing vegetables having similar stem diameter, such as tomato, bitter melon, sweet pepper, etc. The experimental results indicated that the average grafting success rate is over 93.8% and the system has a working capability of 327 seedlings per hour; the overall survival rate for the grafted seedlings kept in an acclimatization chamber is over 84.4%. Demonstrations were held and farmers were highly satisfied with the system performance.
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