A Design of an Unmanned Electric Tractor Platform

Yung-Chuan Chen, Li-Wen Chen and Ming-Yen Chang
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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

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-19

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.

Keywords: agricultural; unmanned; electrical tractor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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