Recently, the need for long-term structural health monitoring has warranted the design of novel sensing transducers. In particular, nanotechnology offers new material processing techniques that allow for novel multifunctional thin film sensor designs which combine sensing, actuation, and power harvesting into one platform. In this study, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) are used as filler ...

A grain combine was equipped with a whole-plant corn head and modified to produce single-pass, whole-plant corn harvesting with two crop streams: grain and stover. Capture of potential stover DM varied from 48% to 89% for leaves, from 49% to 92% for stalks, and was greater than 90% for husks and cobs, depending on corn head height. Stover aggregate moisture varied between 36% and 50% (w.b.), an...

It is statistically proved that in production of grain crops, harvesting the most labor-and resource-intensive. A comparative technical and economic assessment technologies for winter wheat by direct combine was carried out. The calculations performed under conditions model economy region feasibility updating fleet equipment with machines equipped combing adapters crops.

With the entry into force of Decree Government Russian Federation on traceability grain, agricultural producers are obliged to promptly enter data grain harvested from fields and place its storage information system. For guaranteed entry, it is proposed implement, in parallel with existing procedure, a receipt accounting system based tracking geolocation reloading combine vehicles for transport...

Power consumption is a primary concern for wireless sensor networks. In order to reduce the use of batteries in the nodes, energy harvesting technologies have been considered. However, most of the existing solutions rely on a single energy source, thus potentially reducing the sensor sustainability. In this paper, we present a circuit that switches between multiple heterogeneous energy sources,...

The article considers various types of statements used in the linguistic description input factors and regulated parameters a combine harvester when solving problem its technological adjustment. environmental conditions, characteristics quality harvesting operations is presented. technique modeling fuzzy for formalization knowledge an expert system designed to inform operator choosing values ad...