Automat wspomagający uzyskanie większej liczby sadzonek dębów

Old trees fall for various reasons, so planting new oak trees is a must. Meanwhile not all acorns are useful and effective as oak seeds. Many of them will never germinate despite careful nurturing. Since breeding of cuttings is expensive – it is important to plant only the acorns that will grow into oak trees. As methods for mechanical separation of acorns using the classic features of distribution prompts are of low efficiency, we are trying to search for unconventional solutions. We have developed a model of an automaton with a video system for scarification of acorns and assessment of their viability . The article presents the resulting method for automating the process of oak seed scarification and visual analysis of the seed cross section in order to select the most promising acorns.