Abstract:Aiming at the problems of uneven plant spacing and difficulty in controlling the uprightness due to poor relative motion stability between the machine and the soil during the mechanized transplanting of seedlings, taking the multi-link planting mechanism as the object, a zero-speed transplanting method suitable for different plant spacing was proposed, and a vegetable transplanter uprightness control system was designed based on fuzzy PID. Firstly, the kinematic model of the planting mechanism was established, the motion relationship between the horizontal compensation mechanism and the driving speed was analyzed, and the uprightness control system model was constructed to realize the adaptive adjustment of the horizontal speed compensation motor, thereby controlling the horizontal movement of the entire planting mechanism. The horizontal speed of the planter was compensated in real time so that the sum of the horizontal speed of the planter end point and the forward speed of the transplanter was zero, thus achieving the purpose of optimizing the planting trajectory. Secondly, a control system simulation model was built in Matlab/Simulink to verify the effect. The system simulation experiment showed that the control system optimized using fuzzy PID had faster response, higher accuracy and better robustness. The response time was 0.012 s and the overshoot was 4.737%. Then, control rules were used in Matlab software to optimize the planting trajectory. After the control system was working, the trajectory of the planter end point entering the soil under different plant spacing conditions was optimized. The trajectory of the duckbill planter after entering the soil was more vertical, and the horizontal displacement in the soil was reduced to less than 12 mm, which was conducive to the seedlings being planted into the soil at zero speed. Finally, the seedling transplanting comparison experiment was designed under the conditions of the planting frequency of 48 plants/minute and the planting spacing between 200 mm and 700 mm. Compared with the conventional group, the uprightness of the seedlings in the control group was significantly less affected by the plant spacing and travel speed. With the increase of the soil trough speed, the uprightness of most seedlings was in the range of 75°~90°. The average uprightness qualified rate of the control group was 95.50%, and the average uprightness excellent rate was 91.25%, which was 23.85% higher than that of the conventional group, meeting the control requirements for the uprightness of seedlings under different plant spacing conditions.