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As an important cash crop in China, sugarcane has always been the main source of sugar, the basic strategic material. The planting method of sugarcane used in China is mainly the pre-cutting planting mode. However, there are many problems with this technology, which has a great impact on the planting quality of sugarcane. Aiming at a series of problems, such as low cutting efficiency and poor quality in the pre-cutting planting mode of sugarcane, a sugarcane-seed-cutting device was proposed, and a sugarcane-seed-cutting system based on automatic identification technology was designed. The system consists of a sugarcane-cutting platform, a seed-cutting device, a visual inspection system, and a control system. Among them, the visual inspection system adopts the YOLO V5 network model to identify and detect the eustipes of sugarcane, and the seed-cutting device is composed of a self-tensioning conveying mechanism, a reciprocating crank slider transmission mechanism, and a high-speed rotary cutting mechanism so that the cutting device can complete the cutting of sugarcane seeds of different diameters. The test shows that the recognition rate of sugarcane seed cutting is no less than 94.3%, the accuracy rate is between 94.3% and 100%, and the average accuracy is 98.2%. The bud injury rate is no higher than 3.8%, while the average cutting time of a single seed is about 0.7 s, which proves that the cutting system has a high cutting rate, recognition rate, and low injury rate. The findings of this paper have important application values for promoting the development of sugarcane pre-cutting planting mode and sugarcane planting technology.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22218430","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,3]],"date-time":"2022-11-03T03:53:07Z","timestamp":1667447587000},"page":"8430","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Sugarcane-Seed-Cutting System Based on Machine Vision in Pre-Seed Mode"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Da","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China"}]},{"given":"Rui","family":"Su","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China"}]},{"given":"Yanjie","family":"Xiong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4282-9821","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuwei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China"},{"name":"Anhui Province Engineering Laboratory of Intelligent Agricultural Machinery and Equipment, Hefei 230036, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6614-278X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Weiwei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Engineering, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China"},{"name":"Anhui Province Engineering Laboratory of Intelligent Agricultural Machinery and Equipment, Hefei 230036, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.indcrop.2018.10.001","article-title":"A mechatronically integrated autonomous seed material generation system for sugarcane: A crop of industrial significance","volume":"128","author":"Nare","year":"2019","journal-title":"Ind. 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