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ARTICLE IN PRESS Biosystems Engineering (2006) 93 (2), 123–138 doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2005.12.001 AE—Automation and Emerging Technologies Development of an Automatic Pallet Handling System for Seeded Trays 1 2 1 Yi-Chich Chiu ; Din-Sue Fon ; Gang-Jhy Wu 1Department of Biomechatronic Engineering, National Ilan University, 1, Shen-Lung Rd., I-Lan 26041, Taiwan; e-mail of corresponding author: yichiu@.tw 2Department of Bio-industrial Mechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan (Received 22 November 2004; accepted in revised form 6 December 2005; published online 30 January 2006) The objective of this study was to develop an automatic pallet loading and unloading system for rice seeded trays, that receives three seeded trays in a stack from an automatic sowing line and arranges them orderly on a pallet. The loaded pallets will then be shipped out to a conditioning room for sprouting. The system can also reverse the former procedures to retrieve sprouted trays from pallets and arrange the trays to be sent to the nursery field, where the seeds in the tray keep growing to the seedling stage. A prototype was designed, constructed and subjected to performance testing and evaluation. Experimental results showed that the system worked satisfactorily at stacking 1416 trays h1, with 95% pallet loading success rate. The unloading capacity was 1380 trays h1, with 972% success rate. r 2006 Silsoe Research Institute. All rights reserved Published by Elsevier Ltd 1. Introduction sowing line, a tray stacker was used to pile up the