Volume 6, Issue 3, December 2019, Pages 148 - 151
Soil Compaction and Rolling Resistance Evaluation of a Locomotion System with an Adjustable Contact Patch for a Grape Transporting Robot
Authors
Enrico di Maria*, Kazuo Ishii
Department of Human Intelligence System, Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu 808-0196, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: e.dimaria.srt@gmail.com
Corresponding Author
Enrico di Maria
Received 17 November 2018, Accepted 20 December 2018, Available Online 10 December 2019.
- DOI
- 10.2991/jrnal.k.191202.002How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Soil compaction; rolling resistance; finite element method; cone penetrometer
- Abstract
Soil compaction is a form of soil degradation which causes soil erosion, drainage difficulties, and loss of nutrients. To mitigate this issue, in agricultural farms several methods have been adopted. In this paper, the preliminary study of a locomotion system with adjustable contact patches is proposed. Aim is to reduce the compaction and optimize the rolling resistance of a grape transporting robot used in vineyard. A Finite Element Method (FEM) model supported by experimental results is developed to study the system.
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- © 2019 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - JOUR AU - Enrico di Maria AU - Kazuo Ishii PY - 2019 DA - 2019/12/10 TI - Soil Compaction and Rolling Resistance Evaluation of a Locomotion System with an Adjustable Contact Patch for a Grape Transporting Robot JO - Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life SP - 148 EP - 151 VL - 6 IS - 3 SN - 2352-6386 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.k.191202.002 DO - 10.2991/jrnal.k.191202.002 ID - diMaria2019 ER -