Controle da velocidade e da direção entre dois veículos agrícolas / Speed and steering control between two agricultural vehicles

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2011

RESUMO

One problems of the mechanical harvest of sugar cane is the lack of synchronization between the harvester and field wagon. This problem can causes crop losses as well as reducing operational capacity. The first occurs when the machines are misaligned and part of the sugar cane is thrown out of the wagon. The operational capacity reduce occurring when the machines become misaligned and it is required maneuver to return to working position, these maneuvers take time and therefore represents a reduction of the harvest efficiency. This research aims to develop a system capable of identifying and controlling the speed and parallelism between the sugar cane harvester and the wagon. With the hypothesis that it is possible to synchronize the harvester and the wagon based on logic fuzzy controllers, sensors and GPS. As a control system was used the logic fuzzy that was modeled on the "fuzzy toolbox" of MATLAB Simulink and simulated in MATLAB, with maximum displacement error between the machines of 0.2 m which corresponds to 0.12% and a parallelism error of 5.13% with an offset of 1.5 m. In this simulation, we got the equation and the fuzzy constant as proportional, integrative and derivative that were used in the system to control a slave tractor speed based on the master speed. The first tractor was equipped with GPS, encoder, RF transmitter and mechanical drive acceleration. The second was equipped with GPS, encoder and transmitter. The results were satisfactory since the slave tractor speed followed the master tractor speed with the ranging error from 0.10% to 2.04% in a total displacement of 115 m. To control the direction of the tractor was used the autopilot modifying the information sent by RTK so that the system works as a slave of another vehicle called a master. To evaluate the response time the system was subjected to variations of the offset, the responses was between 7.4 s to 7.9 s. Both the control system speed and steering were tested separately in the field

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lógica fuzzy perdas durante a colheita automoveis - velocidade - controle automatico cana-de-açúcar - colheita fuzzy logic losses during harvest automobiles sugarcane

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