This paper presents an adaptive steering controller for achieving consistent, sensitive, and accurate steering control with noisy and drifting control signals on an automated agricultural tractor. Conventional model-based PID controller is difficult to solve this problem because of too many disturbances and unknown factors. The authors have developed an adaptive steering controller consisting o...

Abstract. Researchers around the world have focused on autonomous agriculture, with systems encompassing greenhouse, orchard, field and other applications. Research has shown the potential and ability of the technology to allow a vehicle or selection of vehicles to follow a specified task. In this study, one aspect of the problem, that of operating a tractor-cart combination in conjunction with...

The J1939-based ISO standard 11783 describes CAN-based communication in open networks for use in mobile machines in the agricultural industry. ISO 11783 is a multi-master network based on CAN, whose protocol is harmonized with J1939. The ISOBUS concept describes a minimum degree of functionality for software and hardware that ECUs or networks must provide. The ISOBUS protocol ensures that a sui...

A new method is described that can be used to decompose human controlled agricultural operations into robotic behaviours embedded in an autonomous tractor. Four main levels have been identified: Operation, Task, Optimisation/Behaviour and Primitive actions where each level is subsumed by the level above. Tasks were further classified into two distinctive types, deterministic tasks that can be p...

the aims of this study were about determining of amount of accuracy in tractor-moldboard plow system for tillage operation on paddies and also survey on efficacy of decision support software application on amount of energy use. for this purpose, decision support software was developed by visual basic 6.0. for survey in amount of efficacy of applying the decision support system on paddies tillag...

When analyzing agricultural field machinery from an engineering perspective, it appears that the technical development has progressed in a different pattern compared to what is seen in other industrial mechanical or tooling systems. As in other fields, the technical development of agricultural field machinery has brought new technical and engineering elements into use. Especially for tractors a...