Abstract:At present, vegetable seedling grafting labor problems highlighted, and efficient grafting model which is suitable for our production was more scarce, thus a tomato vegetable vertical semi-automatic grafting machine was innovatively designed. The machine consisted of a six-station rotary table, synchronized cutting, seedling clamping, back to planting and other key institutions, scion and rootstock seedling position by using the upper and lower stacked vertical layout, a single person can be on the anvil scion seedling, the machine can automatically complete the seedling clamping cutting, clamping and back to planting into the hole operations. The rigid-flexible coupling model of the grafted seedling flexible clamping hand was established by ADAMS-ABAQUS, and the simulation analysis showed that the designed flexible clamping mechanism can effectively reduce the stress on the clamped seedling compared with the rigid clamping, and the maximum clamping force was reduced by 84.5%, which helped to realize low-loss clamping. Further three-factor and three-level orthogonal optimization test of the clamping end was carried out, and the optimal structural combination of parameters affecting the grafting success rate of the clamping end was found to be as follows: the thickness of the clamping shrapnel was 0.6mm, the working air pressure was 0.3MPa, and the length of the shrapnel connection was 10mm. At this time, the average success rate of the grafting machine was 97.3%, and the average grafting efficiency was 717 plants/h, which was twice as much as that of the manual grafting efficiency, and it can meet the requirements for the automated planting of eggplant and fruit vegetables in the factory. It met the demand for automated grafting in factory planting of eggplant and fruit vegetables.