Abstract:Peanut is an important oil crop and cash crop in China. With the increasing uncertainties in international agricultural trade, efficient peanut harvesting equipment are playing a key role in maintaining the safety of Chinas oil trade. Influenced by complex operation environment and multitarget reference system, the pickingup mechanism of axialflow fullfeed peanut combine harvester had the problems of high dropping rate, high damage rate and high power consumption rate. The key structural parameters and operation parameters of the picking mechanism were determined by combining theoretical analysis with field experiments. The theoretical range of the main parameters of the pickingup mechanism were established. Based on Box-Benhnkens central combination theory, responsing surface tests were carried out with three factors as influencing factors, namely, mechanism rotation speed, machine advancing speed and elastic teeth spacing. The effects of various factors on pickingup and dropping rate, damage rate and power consumption rate were analyzed and the influencing factors were optimized. The significant order of dropping rate was: mechanism rotation speed, machine forward speed, and elastic teeth spacing. The significant order of pod damage rate was mechanism rotation speed, elastic teeth spacing and machine advancing speed. The significant order of influence of power consumption ratio was machine forward speed, mechanism rotation speed and elastic teeth spacing. The optimal combination of working parameters were the mechanism rotation speed of 63.62r/min, the spacing between elastic teeth of 75.23mm and the forward speed of the machine of 1.07m/s, the corresponding dropping rate was 2.15%, pickingup loss rate was 3.53% and power consumption rate was 7.92%. The pickingup quality was improved and the harvesting cost was reduced. Results of the research could provide a reference for the perfect design of pickingup mechanism and optimization of operation parameters of axialflow peanut fullfeed harvester. The test device was based on the pickingup mechanism of axial peanut fullfeed harvester, and the test object was only “Yuhua 9327” peanut variety. It was suggested that the picking performance should be discussed in depth under the conditions of different peanut varieties and peanut harvesting equipment with different structures.