Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Potato Yield Monitoring System
In this paper the design, implementation, and evaluation of an experimental-scale potato yield monitoring system is presented. The main objective of this research was to develop a method for accurate mapping of potato yield. At the first stage an instantaneous yield monitoring system was mounted on...
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| author | D Mohammad Zamani A Taghavi M Gholami Pareshkoohi J Massah |
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| description | In this paper the design, implementation, and evaluation of an experimental-scale potato yield monitoring system is presented. The main objective of this research was to develop a method for accurate mapping of potato yield. At the first stage an instantaneous yield monitoring system was mounted on a potato harvesting machine. This system consisted of a weighing tray, two load cells, a shaft rpm encoder, a PLC controller and a mobile computer. The PLC controller, which was able to communicate with the mobile computing unit through the control applications developed in Visual Basic and Win-Proladder, was capable of encoding the load cells and other sensors and making decisions by analyzing the obtained records. Laboratory tests were conducted on a potato harvesting machine to evaluate the performance of the system. The independent variables were: forward speed, tray angle, and the thickness of shock absorber plate. To analyze and compare the results of the laboratory data, Duncan's test with confidence level of 95% was used. In order to investigate the interactions of various factors the factorial experiment with completely randomized design was used. In examining the interactions of tray angle, forward speed and performance-related shock absorber on the system performance, the highest performance (with 2.81% error) only was found to be at the tray angel of 37 degrees, forward speed of 2 km h-1 and without shock absorber. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cb45a86266cc4dc5aa70b1aa1296d8df2022-12-21T22:56:30ZengFerdowsi University of MashhadJournal of Agricultural Machinery2228-68292423-39432014-04-0141505610.22067/jam.v4i1.331647291Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Potato Yield Monitoring SystemD Mohammad ZamaniA TaghaviM Gholami PareshkoohiJ MassahIn this paper the design, implementation, and evaluation of an experimental-scale potato yield monitoring system is presented. The main objective of this research was to develop a method for accurate mapping of potato yield. At the first stage an instantaneous yield monitoring system was mounted on a potato harvesting machine. This system consisted of a weighing tray, two load cells, a shaft rpm encoder, a PLC controller and a mobile computer. The PLC controller, which was able to communicate with the mobile computing unit through the control applications developed in Visual Basic and Win-Proladder, was capable of encoding the load cells and other sensors and making decisions by analyzing the obtained records. Laboratory tests were conducted on a potato harvesting machine to evaluate the performance of the system. The independent variables were: forward speed, tray angle, and the thickness of shock absorber plate. To analyze and compare the results of the laboratory data, Duncan's test with confidence level of 95% was used. In order to investigate the interactions of various factors the factorial experiment with completely randomized design was used. In examining the interactions of tray angle, forward speed and performance-related shock absorber on the system performance, the highest performance (with 2.81% error) only was found to be at the tray angel of 37 degrees, forward speed of 2 km h-1 and without shock absorber.https://jame.um.ac.ir/index.php/jame/article/view/33164Crop yield monitorTray weighingLoad cellEncoderPLC controller |
| spellingShingle | D Mohammad Zamani A Taghavi M Gholami Pareshkoohi J Massah Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Potato Yield Monitoring System Journal of Agricultural Machinery Crop yield monitor Tray weighing Load cell Encoder PLC controller |
| title | Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Potato Yield Monitoring System |
| title_full | Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Potato Yield Monitoring System |
| title_fullStr | Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Potato Yield Monitoring System |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Potato Yield Monitoring System |
| title_short | Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Potato Yield Monitoring System |
| title_sort | design implementation and evaluation of a potato yield monitoring system |
| topic | Crop yield monitor Tray weighing Load cell Encoder PLC controller |
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