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The production of seedlings for transplants, especially plug seedlings, has become avery beneficial procedure in commercial greenhouses. One necessary task in a plug production system is the transplanting of seedlings from one container to another to allow further growth and development. This transplanting operation is currently done by human labor. The seedlings are young plants of various shapes and sizes, depending on the species, age and the containers used fortheir growth. The large volume of plug production every year (estimated 2.75 billion in North America in 1989) emphasized the need for automating the plug transplanting operation. And, inherent uncertainty and variability associated with the seedling production conditions prompted our study of flexibly automated transplanting using robots.
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Ting, K.C., Giacomelli, G.A. (1991). Robotics Applications to Transplanting of Plug Seedlings. In: Prakash, J., Pierik, R.L.M. (eds) Horticulture — New Technologies and Applications. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3176-6_49
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