Robotic transplanting of orchid protocorm in mericlone culture

Mericlone culture of orchid plants is in vitro technique where all operations must be done in the sterile environment of the transfer hood. A robot system for transplanting orchid protocorms in seed propagation was studied and developed to reduce labor requirements and prevent contamination in plant...

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Published inNōgyō Kikai Gakkaishi Vol. 55; no. 5
Main Authors Okamoto, T. (Tokyo Univ. (Japan). Faculty of Agriculture), Kitani, O, Torii, T
Format Journal Article
LanguageJapanese
Published 1993
Subjects
APLICACIONES DEL ORDENADOR
APPLICATION DES ORDINATEURS
AUTOMATAS
AUTOMATE
CULTIVO DE MERISTEMAS
CULTURE DE MERISTEME
MAQUINARIA DE PLANTACION
MATERIEL DE PLANTATION
ORCHIDACEAE
PLANTULAS
PLANTULE
REPIQUAGE
TRASPLANTE
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Summary:Mericlone culture of orchid plants is in vitro technique where all operations must be done in the sterile environment of the transfer hood. A robot system for transplanting orchid protocorms in seed propagation was studied and developed to reduce labor requirements and prevent contamination in plant tissue culture. A machine vision was used for recognition of protocorms that were about 0.5 mm in diameter and randomly dotted on agar growth media. A small and light gripper driven by shape memory alloy actuator was able to handle softly the microscopic objects in delicate operation for transplanting protocorms. The intelligent robot system has a machine vision and micro-handling technique and could carry out transplanting more efficient than technician
Bibliography:9504809
N20
ISSN:0285-2543
DOI:10.11357/jsam1937.55.5_103