Title
System modeling and control of automatically variable rate fertilizer applicator
Abstract
Variable rate fertilization is the most important technical system of precision agriculture nowadays. The paper introduces the system modeling and control method of one kind of automatically variable rate fertilizer applicator according to the specific situation of China. The applicator makes use of spatial information technologies, such as GPS, GIS and RS, to adjust the application rate of fertilizer controlled by step motor through single chip computer. Decision making modeling for variable rate fertilization, system control modeling for single chip computer and grid cell identification modeling for the tractor are the core models for the variable rate fertilizer applicator and introduced in detail. Experiments in the field show that the variable rate applicator works well and the control accuracy is less than 7%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1398350
SMC (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
fertilisers,identification,microprocessor chips,stepping motors,system modeling,precision agriculture,spatial information technologies,variable rate fertilizer applicator,step motor,grid cell identification,agricultural machinery,control,single chip computer,spatial information,chip,variable rate
Spatial analysis,Computer science,Simulation,Chip,Precision agriculture,Agricultural machinery,Systems modeling,Global Positioning System,Control system,Tractor
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1
1062-922X
0-7803-8566-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Caicong Wu161.59
Xiuwan Chen23318.04
Yunxia Han300.68
Shuhui Zhang400.34