Digital analogue of an agricultural tractor

Abstract

Today the trend in the digitalisation of all economic spheres is particularly noticeable. Agriculture is no exception here. According to forecasts, the agribusiness transition to Industry-4.0 will increase the yield by 10 %. One of the digital design and modeling technologies is the use of digital analogues of objects or processes. This technology can be applied to an agricultural tractor or other power device. Using this approach will allow you to plan the annual load of machines, taking into account their maintenance condition, efficiency of use, etc. Also such a system will allow to choose the optimal operating modes of agricultural machinery, which in turn will increase its capacity, yield and reduce losses.

Evaluation of energy-economic parameters of tractor with electrically driven power unit

“…If electric energy storage devices are used, they should not be charged from the grid, but from the converted energy of the engine. Not only lithium-ion batteries can be used as energy storages, but also supercapacitors (ultracapacitors), which have been actively introduced in recent years and are considered as temporary charge storages with good characteristics [15,16]. These factors are the determining factors in the concept of the electric tractor, but there remain many problems related to the selection and mutual arrangement of electrical engineering units, as well as their control algorithm.…”