Automation and Remote Control of an Aquatic Harvester Electric Vehicle

Emil Tudor, Mihai-Gabriel Matache, Ionuț Vasile, Ion-Cătălin Sburlan and Vasilica Stefan
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Emil Tudor: National Institute for Research and Development in Electrical Engineering, 030138 Bucharest, Romania
Mihai-Gabriel Matache: The National Institute of Research—Development for Machines and Installations Designed for Agriculture and Food Industry—INMA Bucharest, 013811 Bucharest, Romania
Ionuț Vasile: National Institute for Research and Development in Electrical Engineering, 030138 Bucharest, Romania
Ion-Cătălin Sburlan: National Institute for Research and Development in Electrical Engineering, 030138 Bucharest, Romania
Vasilica Stefan: The National Institute of Research—Development for Machines and Installations Designed for Agriculture and Food Industry—INMA Bucharest, 013811 Bucharest, Romania

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 10, 1-19

Abstract: Electric boats are evolving, following the trend of imposing electric powered vehicles in all transportation solutions. For a research project, a reed and aquatic weed harvester, the author’s goal is to develop an experimental electrical vehicle aimed at solving several particular problems such as: small speed, big throttle, high maneuverability, big load capacity, small draught and affordable cost. The solution comprises of one electric motor powered by a converter supplied from Li-Ion batteries, which drives a hydraulic pump for simultaneous operation of two lateral-placed paddle wheels and one complex mechanism of cutter and conveyor. The control system of this vehicle consists of one remote controller, with bidirectional radio communication to three on-board controllers used for the management of the electro-hydraulic actuators, the electric motor and the battery storage system. The hardware and the software architectures are presented, underlining the automated operations designed to increase the safety, the maneuverability and the predictability of the vehicle. The advantages of the use of control electronics is the increasing operability of the vehicle by supervising the available stored energy and the predicted consumption of energy, the fast and remote assistance in case of operational failure using online diagnose and the operation optimization by selecting the best load profile for the cutter and for the paddles. The results of this research are the validation of the proposed hardware and software architectures used for the control of an electro-hydraulic vehicle and the feasibility of using radio communication and remote diagnose for vehicle control.

Keywords: driver-vehicle automation collaboration; reed harvester; electric vehicle; electro-hydraulic power line; remote assistance; remote diagnose; energy consumption mitigation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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