Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.25165/j.ijabe.20231603.7455
Dong Dai, Du Chen, Xu Mao, Yawei Zhang, Yutong Li, Shumao Wang, Bin Zhang
The real-time monitoring of the load in farming by the sensor installed on the tractor's three-point hitch can effectively improve the farming efficiency and force-position combined control, reduce the compaction risk of the wheel on the soil and reduce the fuel consumption in farming process. However, the measurement and quantification of the loads on the three-point hitch have some problems remaining unresolved: testing the accuracy and reliability of a load measuring system is hard when the tractor works in a field, the mathematical model of spatial forces usually lacks a practical and effective validation, and the calibration process of the measurement system is inconvenient and incomplete while easily causing a low accuracy. Specifically, this paper builds a new spatial-force mathematical model based on the geometry of a three-point hitch. To eliminate the discrepancy of the geometric model with the actual structure and to refine the mathematical model, a calibration process is conducted by developing a calibration bench, which is equipped with a data acquisition system and a multi-parameter monitoring interface. The three-point hitch installed on this calibration bench is subject to steady-state loading. The loading force, angle of the lower drawbar, and three-component forces (three shaft pin sensors’ forces) of the three-point hitch are well measured. With applying for the measured data to calibrate the theoretical mathematic model eventually derives the resultant force from all the three-component forces, a dynamical loading bench was developed to test the calculated resultant force for the three-point hitch during the sinusoidal and randomly variant dynamical loadings tests. A hitch force measurement system is also developed to collect real-time data and calculate the resultant force of measured three-component forces through the calibrated mathematical model. The results of the dynamical loading tests show that the average relative error MRE=1.09% with an average force measurement time delay being Δt=0.5 s, the root mean square error RMSE=59.3 N, and the coefficient of determination R2=0.9903. As observed, the shape and the trend of the generated resultant force curve are basically the dynamical loading force. The dynamical loading test proves the high efficacy and reliability of the proposed indoor calibration method for calculating the load based on the three-component forces as measured on the three-point hitch. Besides, the preliminary study of the proposed method on the hitch load provides great potential to improve the indoor six-component measurement and quantification of both the force and momentum acting on the three-point hitch. Keywords: tractor, three-point hitch, hitch force calibration bench, hitch force measurement system, dynamic loading verification method DOI: 10.25165/j.ijabe.20231603.7455 Citation: Dai D, Chen D, Mao X, Zhang Y W, Li Y T, Wang S M, et al. Design and performance analysis of indoor calibration device
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{"title":"Kinematic synthesis and simulation of a vegetable pot seedling transplanting mechanism with four exact task poses","authors":"Liang Sun, Haoming Xu, Yuzhu Zhou, Jiahao Shen, Gaohong Yu, Huafeng Hu, Yuejun Miao","doi":"10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.6739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.6739","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13895,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88468151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.5931
A. Numsong, J. Posom, S. Chuan-udom
: This research proposes an artificial neural network (ANN)-based repair and maintenance (R&M) cost estimation model for agricultural machinery. The proposed ANN model can achieve high estimation accuracy with small data requirement. In the study, the proposed ANN model is implemented to estimate the R&M costs using a sample of locally-made rice combine harvesters. The model inputs are geographical regions, harvest area, and curve fitting coefficients related to historical cost data; and the ANN output is the estimated R&M cost. Multilayer feed-forward is adopted as the processing algorithm and Levenberg-Marquardt backpropagation learning as the training algorithm. The R&M costs are estimated using the ANN-based model, and results are compared with those of conventional mathematical estimation model. The results reveal that the percentage error between the conventional and ANN-based estimation models is below 1%, indicating the proposed ANN model’s high predictive accuracy. The proposed ANN-based model is useful for setting the service rates of agricultural machinery, given the significance of R&M cost in profitability. The novelty of this research lies in the use of curve-fitting coefficients in the ANN-based estimation model to improve estimation accuracy. Besides, the proposed ANN model could be further developed into web-based applications using a programming language to enable ease of use and greater user accessibility. Moreover, with minor modifications, the ANN estimation model is also applicable to other geographical areas and tractors or combine harvesters of different countries of origin.
{"title":"Artificial neural network-based repair and maintenance cost estimation model for rice combine harvesters","authors":"A. Numsong, J. Posom, S. Chuan-udom","doi":"10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.5931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.5931","url":null,"abstract":": This research proposes an artificial neural network (ANN)-based repair and maintenance (R&M) cost estimation model for agricultural machinery. The proposed ANN model can achieve high estimation accuracy with small data requirement. In the study, the proposed ANN model is implemented to estimate the R&M costs using a sample of locally-made rice combine harvesters. The model inputs are geographical regions, harvest area, and curve fitting coefficients related to historical cost data; and the ANN output is the estimated R&M cost. Multilayer feed-forward is adopted as the processing algorithm and Levenberg-Marquardt backpropagation learning as the training algorithm. The R&M costs are estimated using the ANN-based model, and results are compared with those of conventional mathematical estimation model. The results reveal that the percentage error between the conventional and ANN-based estimation models is below 1%, indicating the proposed ANN model’s high predictive accuracy. The proposed ANN-based model is useful for setting the service rates of agricultural machinery, given the significance of R&M cost in profitability. The novelty of this research lies in the use of curve-fitting coefficients in the ANN-based estimation model to improve estimation accuracy. Besides, the proposed ANN model could be further developed into web-based applications using a programming language to enable ease of use and greater user accessibility. Moreover, with minor modifications, the ANN estimation model is also applicable to other geographical areas and tractors or combine harvesters of different countries of origin.","PeriodicalId":13895,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86339653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.25165/j.ijabe.20231602.7216
S. Fu, Jin-Quan Lu, I. Walder, Daishe Wu
: The leaching of heavy metals from tailings deposit due to the oxidation of sulphidic tailings and formation of acidic leachate is considered a high risk to the surrounding environment. Temperature plays an important role in the leaching of heavy metals from tailings in changing acid-based environment, especially in the Arctic area. To investigate how the temperature variation affected metal release from tailings in the Arctic area, a series of column leaching experiments was conducted under four temperature situations (5°C, 10°C, 14°C and 18°C). Physicochemical properties, Fe, Zn, Ni and Mn concentrations of leachates at each cycle were measured, and multivariate statistical analysis was applied to research the effect of temperature on heavy metals leaching from tailings in the Arctic area. The results showed that higher temperatures encouraged tailings to oxidation and sulfuration of and promoted heavy metal release from the tailings through precipitation and erosion. Ni, Zn and Mn have similar releasing resources from tailings and positive correlation in the leaching activity. Rising temperature accelerated Fe leaching; Fe leaching promoted leaching of the other metals, especially of Mn. Appropriately increase temperature will accelerate oxidization and sulfidization of the tailings, promote acid generation and increase TDS and, finally, promote the release of heavy metals. Climate change, with rising temperatures increasing the risk of heavy metals leaching from the tailings, should be given greater attention. Keeping tailings away from the appropriate temperature and in a higher alkalinity is a good method to control the leaching of heavy metals from tailings.
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