DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF SUNFLOWER INTELLIGENT INSERTION TRAY DRYER

In order to meet the demand for mechanisation of sunflower segmented harvesting and tray insertion for drying, an intelligent tray insertion dryer was designed and developed. The machine integrates the functions of disc picking, disc flipping, bar clipping, lifting and inserting, and uses SolidWorks for accurate mechanism design and simulation, incorporating the YOLOv5 model for efficient recognition of flower discs and the LeGO-LOAM algorithm for accurate navigation and map building. In the experiment, 81 sunflower samples were collected to analyse data on disc diameter, plant height, rod diameter and stalk diameter, and to verify the recognition accuracy of the YOLOv5 model in different directions. The results showed that the precision of disc recognition was 95.54%, accuracy was 89.94%, recall was 95.54% and F1 value was 0.89. Using the LeGO-LOAM algorithm tested at different path lengths, the root-mean-square error of the navigational build trajectory was 0.15 m, with a standard deviation of 0.10 m. This technological integration improves the operational efficiency and supports the mechanisation of sunflower insertion tray drying.