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Torque Assist Strategy for Hybrid Agricultural Tractor with Consideration of Field Operations

농작업을 고려한 농업용 하이브리드 트랙터의 토크 지원 전략 개발

  • Received : 2013.06.27
  • Accepted : 2014.04.10
  • Published : 2014.06.01
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Abstract

This paper proposes a torque assist strategy for operating a hybrid agricultural tractor in the field. In general, different field operations such as baling and rotary tillage require different patterns and amounts of torque. Thus, a large agricultural tractor is used to improve the farming efficiency. Therefore, this research has the goal of developing a hybrid tractor that uses a small electric motor to provide additional torque for specific field operations. To achieve this objective, a rule-based torque assist strategy is proposed and validated for a simulation model in the Autonomie framework, which is a commercial simulation tool. Finally, the work efficiencies and fuel consumptions of a conventional tractor and the hybrid tractor with the proposed torque assist strategy are compared using simulations.

본 논문은 농작업 시 농업용 하이브리드 트랙터를 위한 토크 지원 전략을 제안한다. 일반적으로 농업용 트랙터는 베일러, 로타리 등 농작업 종류에 따라 필요한 토크의 크기가 다양하기 때문에 특수목적을 위하여 출력이 큰 트랙터가 필요할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 연비개선보다는 작은 모터를 사용하여 특정 농작업에 필요한 적절한 토크 지원을 수행함으로써 동일한 사이즈의 기존 트랙터보다 다양한 농작업을 좀 더 효율적으로 수행할 수 있는 하이브리드 트랙터 개발을 목표로 한다. 이를 위한 토크 지원 전략을 제안하고 상용 차량 시뮬레이터인 Autonomie 를 기반으로 한 하이브리드 트랙터 모델을 이용하였다. 마지막으로 토크 어시스트 전략을 적용한 하이브리드 트랙터와 일반 트랙터에 대한 시뮬레이션을 통해 작업 효율과 연료 사용량을 검증하였다.

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