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A Design of an Unmanned Electric Tractor Platform

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  • Yung-Chuan Chen

    (Department of Vehicle Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 912, Taiwan)

  • Li-Wen Chen

    (Department of Vehicle Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 912, Taiwan)

  • Ming-Yen Chang

    (Department of Vehicle Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 912, Taiwan)

Abstract

The tractor is a vehicle often used in agriculture. It is mainly used to tow other unpowered agricultural machinery for farming, harvesting, and seeding. They consume a lot of fuel with emissions that often contain a large amount of toxic gases, which seriously jeopardize human health and the ecological environment. Therefore, the electrical tractor is bound to become a future trend. The objective of this study is to design and implement a lightweight, energy-saving, and less polluting electric tractor, which meets the requirements of existing smallholder farmers, equipped with unmanned technology and multi-functions to assist labor and to provide the potential for unmanned operation. We reduced the weight of the tractor body structure to 101 kg, and the bending rigidity and torsional rigidity reached 11,579 N/mm and 4923 Nm/deg, respectively. Two 7.5 kW induction motors driven by lithium batteries were applied, which allows at least 3.5 h of working time.

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  • Yung-Chuan Chen & Li-Wen Chen & Ming-Yen Chang, 2022. "A Design of an Unmanned Electric Tractor Platform," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-19, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jagris:v:12:y:2022:i:1:p:112-:d:724406
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    1. Diego Troncon & Luigi Alberti, 2020. "Case of Study of the Electrification of a Tractor: Electric Motor Performance Requirements and Design," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-15, May.
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