• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to develop an optimal path planning program for autonomous speed sprayer in orchard. A digital map which contained coordinate information and entity information including height, width, radius of main stem, and disease of a trees was developed to build an optimal path. The digital map, dynamic programming and order-picking algorithm were used for planning an optimal path for autonomous speed sprayers. When this algorithm applied to rectangular-shaped orchards to travel whole trees, the developed program planned the same working path and same traveling distance as those of created by conventional method. But for irregular-shaped orchards, developed program planned differently and 5.06% shorter path than conventional method. When applied to create path for multi-selected trees, irregular-shaped orchards showed 13.9% shorter path and also rectangular-shaped orchards showed 9.1% shorter path. The developed program always planned shorter path than the path created by conventional method despite of variation of shape of orchards.

• 한국축산시설환경학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.19-24
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• 2013

This study is to promote domestic environmentally appropriately conditions for the range 60~70 m, the development of the small and medium-sized sprayer ability measurement that can be used as a general-purpose paddy fields, orchards, and not consolidated areas. The sprayer designed and manufactured that can spraying effectively distance to within 60~70 m. Distribution of sprayed pesticides were obtained and analyzed by measuring the weight. Performance analysed using the buckets were placed horizontally 12.5 m, 70 m vertical intervals by $5m{\times}2.5m$, so total 68 buckets were placed. Total amounts of sprayed quantity was $2,000{\ell}$ and maximum spray distance was about 70 m. Reasonably sprayed region was 5 m~10 m vertically symmetrical. Showed a lot of spraying water in 5 m~40 m distance, and in 45~60 m tended to spraying water decreased slightly. Maximum spraying distance was 70 m.

• 농약과학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2017

국내에서 재배면적이 가장 넓은 과수인 사과에 대하여 전국 주산단지 포함 17개 시 군 지역 395농가를 대상으로 품종, 수관높이, 재식거리 등의 재배형태 및 농약 살포 물량, 살포기의 종류, 사용 노즐의 종류 등 농약의 살포 방법에 대한 조사를 수행하였다. 사과 품종은 Fuji와 Hongro가 79.2%, 50.9%로 주로 재배되었으며, 재배방식은 주로 저수고 고밀식 재배 형태를 보였다(열간거리: 4.0~4.5 m (73.1%), 재식거리: 1.5~3.5 m (88.6%), 수관높이: 3.0~4.5 m (88.2%)). 주로 사용하는 살포기는 스피드스프레이어 77.6%, 동력 분무기 22.1%로 나타났다. 농약의 단위 면적당(10a) 살포물량은 농약을 적게 살포하는 시기인 4월에는 250~300 L, 농약을 많이 살포하는 시기인 6~8월에는 300~400 L를 주로 살포하는 것으로 조사되었다. 재배유형 및 지역간의 살포물량 차이를 분석한 결과 관행재배와 저수고 고밀식재배 유형에서는 유의적인 차이가 나타나지 않았으나 지역별로는 유의적인 차이를 나타냈다. 동력분무기를 사용할 때 주로 사용하는 노즐은 대포노즐 45%, 회전곡자노즐 26%, 2~3구 플라스틱 금속 노즐이 25%로 나타났다. 이상의 결과들은 농가의 현실을 반영한 농약 살포 물량 설정, 농약의 작물 잔류성 자료 및 약효 자료 평가 등 농약의 등록 관련 정책 수립에 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 보인다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.407-415
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• 2011

Damage to agricultural production caused by insects and diseases affects farming yields. The orchard sprayer is mainly used in the country to protect the fruit in a large area, with less effort and at minimum cost. The excellent performance of the air blast spray increases the fruit protection. Chemical application in orchards has been accomplished by the orchard sprayers with air assist nozzles and a axial fan in Korea. However, the orchard sprayers without ROPS resulted in severe injury or death when operators drive the sprayers improperly on hilly orchard or farming road. This study was to develop a ROPS for the orchard sprayers improving farmer's safety. In this study, the accident case was used in analysing the design and building TOP structure of the orchard sprayer. The maximum impact, body torsion frame structures including the driver's protection are also analysed for adherence to safety regulations. The ROPS safety regulations according to the strength test results were established.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2020

Driving on irregular and inclined roads using agricultural machinery such as spraying machines or trucks in orchards causes farmer casualties associated with the overturning of agricultural machinery. In addition, the harm to agricultural workers caused by the excessive inhalation of the scattered pesticide frequently occurs during pest control processes. To address these problems, we introduced precision agricultural technology that could selectively spray pesticides only where the fruit is present by recognizing the presence or shape of the fruit in the orchard. In this paper, a 16-channel LIDAR (VLP-16) made of Velodyne was used to identify the shape of fruit trees. Solenoid valves were attached to the end parts of 12 nozzles of the orchard spraying machine for on/off control. The smart spraying machine implemented in this way was mounted on a vehicle capable of autonomous travel and performed selective control depending upon the shape of the fruit trees while traveling in the orchards. This is expected to significantly reduce the amounts of pesticides used in orchards and production costs.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.23-27
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• 2013

Orchard sprayers, wide area dusters and multipurpose control cars are flagship products of Hansung T&I Ltd. Spray pumps are one of the essential parts for these products. But conventional belt pulleys for spray pumps are heavy and expensive, and they bring down the quality as well as productivity of the end-products. Therefore, this study focuses on mold design for aluminum die casting belt pulley and mold manufacture.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1131-1140
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• 2019

Characteristics of fruit tree canopies are important target information for adjusting the pesticide application rate in variable rate spraying in orchards. Therefore, the target detection of the canopy characteristics is very important. In this study, a canopy volume measurement method for peach trees was presented and a variable rate spraying system based on canopy volume measurement was developed using the ultrasonic sensing, one of the most effective target detection method. Ten ultrasonic sensors and two flow control units were mounted on the orchard air-assisted sprayer. The ultrasonic sensors were used to detect the canopy diameters and the flow controls were used to modify the flow rate of the nozzles in real time. Two treatments were established: a constant application rate of $300Lha^{-1}$ was set as the control treatment for the comparison with the variable rate application at a $0.095Lm^{-3}$ canopy. The tracer deposition at different parts of peach trees and the tracer losses to the ground (between rows and within rows) were analyzed in detail under constant rate and variable rate application. The results showed that there were no significant differences between two treatments in the liquid distribution and the capability to reach the inner parts of the crop canopies.