Kingdom of Saudi Arabia King Saud University College of Food and Agricultural sciences Agricultural Engineering Dept MICROPROCESSOR UNIT FOR MONITORING PERFORMANCE OF AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR BASED ON MS VISUAL C++ Abdulrahman A. Al-Janobi King Saud University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
King Saud University College of Agriculture was established in College of Agriculture was established in Department of Agricultural Engineering was established in 1980 Department of Agricultural Engineering was established in 1980 We have 18 faculty members (power & machinery, Irrigation, Food processing, environment engineering) We have 18 faculty members (power & machinery, Irrigation, Food processing, environment engineering)
Introduction Implement Connection
Introduction Implement Connection
Tractor Jobs Off Road Tractor Performance: To get the most from the tractor. On Road Stability and Safety
Instrumented Tractor In 1994, we established an instrumented tractor. The tractor was improved during these 10 years.
Objective The objective of this project was to develop a microprocessor unit to measure a set of performance parameters of an instrumented tractor with mounted implements.
MICROPROCESSOR UNIT Hardware Hardware Software Software - Off Road (Performance) - On Road (Stability)
MICROPROCESSOR UNIT FOR MONITORING PERFORMANCE OF AGRICULTURAL TRACTOR BASED ON MS VISUAL C++ Data Collection Unit Distributed Box DataLogger DBK11 DBK13 Torque on Rear Wheel Torque on Front Wheel Forces on TPL Draw Bar Force Stability MICROPROCESSOR UNIT FWS RWS 5 th S r.p.m Fuel
Torque on Front Wheel
Forces on TPL
Stability
Fifth Wheel
Engine Speed
Fuel Sensor
Distributed Unit MICROPROCESSOR UNIT
Processing Unit ASUS L4 SERIES P4 speed of 2.4 GHz 40 G Byte hard Disk memory with 56MByte
start Information about Experiment Tractor Information Convert data to values based on Calibration Calculate the performance Save Data as Input File Save Data as output file Present Data in Figures, value, and indicator End Save the reading in Raw File Receive Data from Sensors Off Road
start Information about Experiment Tractor Information Convert data to values based on Calibration Calculate the performance Save Data as Input File Save Data as output file Present Data in Figures, value, and indicator End Is the tractor angle critical Warning Save the reading in Raw File Receive Data from Sensors Yes No On Road
Offline.exe
Do We need all these sensors to get benefit of this microprocessor Unit?
A program for predicting tractor performance in Visual C++ S. A. Al-Hamed, A. A. Al-Janobi Agricultural Engineering Department, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabi Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 31:
Future Works Develop microprocessor unit with simulation to predict the performance of the tractor off road of the tractor off road based only on based only on Speed and Slip Speed and Slip
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