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Monitoring of cutting and processing quality on a forage harvester’

In the agricultural sector, innovative methods are continuously developed to optimize agricultural processes with the ultimate purpose to obtain, in a sustainable way, a higher (quality of) yield from the same land. Agricultural vehicles should therefore be controlled in an optimal manner: machine settings are often suboptimal. A better processing of crops is realizable if real-time monitoring can be used for analysing the effect of the machine settings and for adjusting these setting to the crops or the land that is being harvested at a specific time. Nowadays, for this reasons, all kinds of sensors are being used to provide feedback of the condition of the crop and the machines. The goal of this thesis is the development of a performant vision system that is able to monitor the working conditions of a forage harvester, by analysing the crop flow in corn. This analysis provides feedback on the working conditions of the forage harvester.

Date:13 Aug 2020 →  Today
Keywords:monitoring, forage harvester, agriculture, sensor
Disciplines:Agricultural technology, Sensors, biosensors and smart sensors not elsewhere classified, Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering not elsewhere classified
Project type:PhD project