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Design of Electromagnetic Vibration-Type Single-Bud Sugarcane Seed Metering Device

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The objectives of this research were to solve the problem that the existing sugarcane seed metering device had high per cent of damaged seeds and omission rate. An electromagnetic vibration-type single-bud sugarcane seed metering device was designed. It made use of the characteristic of vibrating automatic metering to avoid damaging buds. And it could be adjusted to different sowing speeds by setting the controller. The migratory mechanism was analysed. The helix angle and working parameters of the metering device were obtained by the experiment. The results of the experiment showed that the order of factors affecting the qualification rate was amplitude > frequency > helix angle. The best qualification rate of the metering device was achieved when the helix angle was 6°, the amplitude was 0.4 mm and the frequency was 53.2 Hz, and the results of verification experiments showed that the qualification rate of metering was over 80% and the per cent of damaged buds was 0 with the best parameter combination. This metering device met the standard requirements of sugarcane seeds metering.

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Acknowledgements

This research was funded by the Basic Business Expenses Items of the Central Level Public Welfare Research Institutes No. 1630132018001 from the People’s Republic of China Ministry of Science and Technology, National Key R&D Project No. 2017YFD0700805 from Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Zhanjiang Science and Technology Planning Project No. 2017A02017 from Zhanjiang Science and Technology Bureau of China, and Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province No. 518MS121 from Hainan Provincial Department of Science and Technology of China. Finally, the authors are also thankful to editor and anymore reviewers for guidance and support.

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  2. Hainan Provincial Institute of Agricultural Machinery, Haikou, 571000, Hainan, China

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Fengguang He, Ganran Deng and Zhaojun Niu have received research Grants from Tropical Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences. Xiao You, from Hainan Provincial Institute of Agricultural Machinery, participated in manuscript modification. Ming Li is a member of Tropical Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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He, F., Deng, G., Li, M. et al. Design of Electromagnetic Vibration-Type Single-Bud Sugarcane Seed Metering Device. Sugar Tech 21, 815–824 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-019-00715-y

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