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Plant Sci."],"abstract":"<jats:p>\n                    Mechanized harvesting remains a major bottleneck for sustainable\n                    <jats:italic>Cerasus humilis<\/jats:italic>\n                    production because lodging-prone branches and fragile fruit make conventional small-fruit harvesters difficult to adapt. To address this crop-specific constraint, we developed a low-damage self-propelled electric harvesting system that integrates branch lifting, comb-type stripping, screw conveying, self-propelled travel and electrohydraulic height adjustment. The key working modules were analyzed, and a four-factor, three-level Box-Behnken field experiment was used to optimize travel speed and the rotational speeds of the branch-lifter, stripping and conveying motors. Travel speed had the strongest effect on harvesting rate, whereas stripping speed had the strongest effect on fruit damage. The optimized operating settings were a travel speed of 0.2\u00a0m\/s, a branch-lifter speed of 104.6 r\/min, a stripping motor speed of 22 r\/min and a conveying motor speed of 137.4 r\/min. Five validation tests under these settings achieved a mean harvesting rate of 82.12% and a mean damage rate of 2.79%, compared with predicted values of 81.26% and 2.80%, respectively. 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