• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.38-45
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• 2024

The power delivery is crucial to designing agricultural machinery. Therefore, the tractor-mounted potato harvester was used in this study to conduct the field experiment and analyze the power delivery for each step. This study was focused on an analysis of power delivery from the engine to the hydraulic components for the tractor-mounted harvester during potato harvesting. Finally, the simulation model of a self-propelled potato harvester was developed and validated using the experimental dataset of the tractor-mounted potato harvester. The power delivery analysis showed that approximately 90.22% of the engine power was used as traction power to drive the tractor-mounted harvester, and only 5.10% of the engine power was used for the entire hydraulic system of the tractor and operated the harvester. The statistical analysis of the simulation and experimental results showed that the coefficient of determinations (R²) ranged from 0.80 to 0.96, which indicates that the simulation model was performed with an accuracy of over 80%. The regression models were correlated linearly with the simulation and experimental results. Therefore, we believe that this study could contribute to the design methodology and performance test procedure of agricultural machinery. This basic study would be helpful in the design of a self-propelled potato harvester.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.22-30
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• 2024

Gearboxes designed for reciprocating motion operating mechanisms operate under conditions where both the load and speed undergo continuous variations. When conducting durability tests on gearboxes designed for such applications, operating the target gearbox under conditions similar to the intended usage is essential. The gearbox must be operated for the required number of cycles to validate its durability under conditions mirroring its intended usage. This study devised an accelerated test method for gearboxes, which reduces operating angles and operational strokes. The reliability of the accelerated test was verified by comparing the stresses imposed on the gears under general and acceleration conditions through multi-body dynamic simulations. The results confirmed that the maximum contact stress levels under normal and accelerated conditions were within a 0.1% error range, indicating a minimal difference in the gear damage rates. However, a difference in the maximum contact stress results between the normal and accelerated conditions was observed when inertial forces acted on the output shaft due to the operational acceleration of the gearbox. Therefore, when conducting this acceleration test, caution should be exercised to ensure that the operational load on the gearbox, which affects inertia, does not significantly deviate from the conditions observed under normal operating conditions.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2024

Potatoes are one of the world's four major crops, and domestic consumption is currently increasing in Korea. However, the mechanization rate of potatoes is very low, and especially, harvesting is the most labor-intensive task in potato production. In Korea, potato-collecting work depends on manpower, so it is necessary to develop a gathering-type harvester that can be used for processes from digging to harvesting. Therefore, in this study, a self-propelled-type potato harvester was developed, and its performance was analyzed to mechanize harvesting. The potato harvester was developed to have a crawler-type driving part with a 60 hp diesel engine and consisted of a digging part that digs potatoes from the ground, a vertical transporting part that transfers the dug potatoes to the height of the collection bag, a separating part that separates debris, such as stones and soil, and a collecting part that loads the collection box. A field test of the potato harvester was conducted, and performance was evaluated by the damage, loss, and debris mixing proportions, which were 2.5%, 2.8%, and 2.6%, respectively. The working capacity was 1.2 h/10 a. The economic analysis results showed that the cost of harvesting work could be reduced by 12.7% compared to manual harvesting.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.30-35
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• 2024

Domestic rice is more expensive than imported products, so it is necessary to reduce production costs to secure competitiveness. Low-density planting developed in Japan is a cultivation technology that reduces labor and production costs without yield loss. The area of low-density cultivation is continuously increasing. However, research on how rice transplanters adapt to low-density planting has not been conducted. Therefore, this study was carried out to determine the optimal working conditions of a rice transplanter for low-density planting. Three types of rice transplanters were used and treated based on 3 conveying distance levels. The number of picked seedlings, pick missing rate, the number of planted seedlings, and the mis-planted rate were investigated to evaluate planting accuracy according to the transfer distance to the seedling tray. The results showed that the number of planted seedlings was 4.31~4.95 EA with an L1 seedling tray transfer distance (horizontal 9 mm, vertical 8 mm), but the mis-planted rate was higher than in other conditions. At L2 (horizontal 9 mm, vertical 10 mm) and L3 (horizontal 11 mm, vertical 8 mm) transfer distance conditions, the number of planted seedlings were 4.89-5.68 EA and 4.69-5.66 EA, respectively, with a low mis-planted rate of less than 3%. The results showed that if the transfer distance is adjusted properly, a rice transplanter can be used for low-density planting with high planting accuracy.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.36-43
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• 2024

The yield is basic and necessary information in precision agriculture that reduces input resources and enhances productivity. Yield information is important because it can be used to set up farming plans and evaluate farming results. Yield monitoring systems are commercialized in the United States and Japan but not in Korea. Therefore, such a system must be developed. This study was conducted to develop a yield monitoring system that improved performance by correcting a previously developed flow sensor using a grain tank-weighing system. An impact-plated type flow sensor was installed in a grain tank where grains are placed, and grain tank-weighing sensors were installed under the grain tank to estimate the weight of the grain inside the tank. The grain flow rate and grain weight prediction models showed high correlations, with coefficient of determinations (R2) of 0.9979 and 0.9991, respectively. A main controller of the yield monitoring system that calculated the real-time yield using a sensor output value was also developed and installed in a combine harvester. Field tests of the combine harvester yield monitoring system were conducted in a rice paddy field. The developed yield monitoring system showed high accuracy with an error of 0.13%. Therefore, the newly developed yield monitoring system can be used to predict grain weight with high accuracy.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.44-52
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• 2024

In this study, we predicted PTO power requirements based on torque predicted by the discrete element method and the multi-body dynamics coupling method. Six different scenarios were simulated to predict PTO power requirements in different soil conditions. The first scenario was a tillage operation on cohesionless soil, and the field was modeled using the Hertz-Mindlin contact model. In the second through sixth scenarios, tillage operations were performed on viscous soils, and the field was represented by the Hertz-Mindlin + JKR model for cohesion. To check the influence of surface energy, a parameter to reproduce cohesion, on the power requirement, a simple regression analysis was performed. The significance and appropriateness of the regression model were checked and found to be acceptable. The study findings are expected to be used in design optimization studies of agricultural machinery by predicting power requirements using the discrete element method and the multi-body dynamics coupling method and analyzing the effect of soil cohesion on the power requirement.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.53-64
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• 2024

Global population growth has resulted in an increased demand for food production. Simultaneously, aging rural communities have led to a decrease in the workforce, thereby increasing the demand for automation in agriculture. Drones are particularly useful for unmanned pest control fields. However, the current method of uniform spraying leads to environmental damage due to overuse of pesticides and drift by wind. To address this issue, it is necessary to enhance spraying performance through precise performance evaluation. Therefore, as a foundational study aimed at optimizing drone-based pest control technologies, this research evaluated water-sensitive paper (WSP) via density map estimation using convolutional neural networks (CNN) with a encoder-decoder structure. To achieve more accurate estimation, this study implemented multi-task learning, incorporating an additional classifier for image segmentation alongside the density map estimation classifier. The proposed model in this study resulted in a R-squared (R²) of 0.976 for coverage area in the evaluation data set, demonstrating satisfactory performance in evaluating WSP at various density levels. Further research is needed to improve the accuracy of spray result estimations and develop a real-time assessment technology in the field.

• 농업생명과학연구
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.81-88
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• 2018

본 연구는 축산분뇨를 퇴비화 하는 과정에서 흔히 사용되는 수분조절제인 톱밥, 왕겨 등을 대체하여 사용할 수 있고 또한 재사용 여부를 판단하기 위하여 수분조절제 6종을 대상으로 특성을 분석하였다. 그 결과 본 실험에 사용한 수분조절제의 종류에 관계없이 유해성분의 함량은 0.0~34.1ppm으로써 농촌진흥청에서 제시하고 있는 유해성분의 최대함량인 5.0~900.0ppm보다 상당히 적은 것으로 나타나 톱밥이나 왕겨 등을 대체가 가능할 것으로 판단되었다. 그리고 수분조절제 원상태의 함수율은 최소 12.4%에서 최대 16.6%까지 측정되어 적정 함수율인 60%이하 보다는 낮아 수분조절제로서의 기능이 충분한 것으로 나타났다. 흡수율은 최소 31.9%에서 최대 600.0%까지 나타나 수분조절제의 종류에 따라 큰 차이를 보였지만, 가장 적절한 수분조절제는 우드펠릿인 것으로 나타났다. 우드브리켓만 보면, A사 제품이 가장 높게 나타났고 그 다음으로 C사 및 B사 제품 순으로 나타났다. 전단강도는 전단강도를 측정할 수 없었던 재료를 제외한 5가지 종류에서 원상태의 경우, 평균 271.7N정도로서 가장 크게 나타났다. 그 다음으로 건조 및 흡수상태로서 평균 전단강도가 각각 78.0N 및 27.7N정도로 나타났다. 우드브리켓의 경우, A사 제품이 B, C사 제품보다 상대적으로 전단강도가 현저히 작게 나타났다. 전체적으로 볼 때, 전단강도는 흡수율이 작으면 상대적으로 크게 나타나는 경향이 있었다. 특히 소나무 우드칩이나 참나무 절단목의 경우, 흡수상태에서도 전단강도가 다른 재료에 비해 상대적으로 크기 때문에 돈분과의 교반시 어느 정도의 동력을 견딜 수 있을 것으로 나타났다.

• 농업생명과학연구
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• 제53권1호
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• pp.117-126
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• 2019

본 연구는 수평 원통형 퇴비화 장치를 이용하여 퇴비를 생산할 때, 폐사축을 동시에 처리할 수 있는 가능성 여부를 판단하기 위하여 실험을 진행하였다. 그 결과 중금속의 경우, 아연의 함유량이 일반 운전의 일부 측정구와 폐사축 운전의 전체 측정구에서 허용함유량 보다 초과하는 것으로 나타났다. 특히 폐사축 운전의 경우, 구리 함량도 일반 운전에 비해 높게 나타났다. 우드칩 운전의 경우, 모든 중금속이 허용치보다 낮게 나타났으며, 구리, 카드뮴 및 비소의 경우는 폐사축 운전과 유사하거나 동일 수준으로 나타났다. 단지 니켈의 함유량이 29.5~63.8% 정도로써 일반 및 폐사축 운전에서 각각 9.3~18.0% 및 15.8~18.0% 정도 함유한 것에 비해 상대적으로 높게 나타났다. 그리고 크롬의 경우도 14.2~31.9% 정도로서 일반 및 폐사축 운전에 비해 상대적으로 높게 나타났다. 통합 운전의 경우도 모든 중금속이 허용치보다 낮게 나타났으며, 구리와 아연의 함유량은 각각 34.9~54.5% 및 53.1~75.9% 정도로서 우드침 운전의 경우인 48.9~52.6% 및 64.6~85.9% 정도와 유사하였다. 그리고 우드칩 운전에서 다소 높게 나타났던 크롬과 니켈의 함량도 안정화 된 것으로 나타났다. 함수율은 폐사축 운전의 경우, 평균 및 최종치가 60.7% 및 49.6% 정도로서 평균치가 권장치인 55.0% 보다 다소 높게 나타났지만, 최종 함수율은 권장치인 55.0% 보다 낮게 나타났다. 통합 운전의 경우, 평균 및 최종 함수율이 각각 29.2% 및 18.6% 정도로서 4개의 운전 중에 상대적으로 가장 낮게 나타났다. 그리고 운전별로 다소차이는 있지만, 전체적으로 권장치인 55.0% 보다 낮게 나타났다. C/N비의 경우, 폐사축 운전에서 상대적으로 가장 낮게 나타났고, 일반 운전에서 가장 높게 나타났다. 운전별로 보면, C/N비의 평균치가 13.7~20.3 정도의 범위이고, 전체평균이 18.3 정도로서 전체적으로 적정치인 30.0 이하를 유지하였다.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.62-69
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• 2008

최근 우리나라에서는 생활폐기물중 가연성폐기물의 처리방법으로 소각이나 매립처분을 가능한 한 지양하고, 고형연료화(RDF) 등을 통한 자원회수를 도모하기 위해 폐기물의 기계적-생물학적 전처리(MBT, Mechanical Biological Treatment)시설 건설을 활발히 추진하고 있다. 이러한 생활폐기물의 MBT시설에 대한 적정 건설과 운영을 위해서는 먼저 처리 대상이 되는 폐기물의 물리 화학적 성상에 대한 정확한 분석이 이뤄져야 한다. 특히 폐기물의 MBT시설의 주된 프로세스인 파쇄, 선별장치의 적정 설계를 위해서는 폐기물의 입도특성에 대한 정확힌 자료가 제공되어야 하나, 아직 폐기물의 입도특성에 관한 자료는 매우 부족한 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 생활폐기물중 가연성폐기물을 대상으로 그들의 입도특성과 입도별 폐기물의 물리화학적 특성을 평가하는데 목적이 있다. 생활폐기물의 시료채취는 수도권 소재 A시의 단독주택, 공동주택, 상가지역 및 업무지역으로 구분하여 실시하였다. 분석결과 발생지역에 관계없이 습윤 기준으로 종이가 29.78~60.02%로 가장 많은 비율을 차지하였다. 원소조성으로는 탄소(C)가 34.77~44.39%로 가장 많은 비율을 차지하였으며, 다음으로 산소(O)가 19.46~33.71%를 차지하는 것으로 나타났다. 고형연료 품질지표인 염소의 경우 0.39~0.83%의 함량을 나타내고 있어 기준치인 2.00% 이하(건조기준)를 만족하고 있었으며, 황(S)함유량도 기준치인 0.60%를 초과하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 입도분석결과 가연분에서는 50~80mm 입도가 가장 많은 비율을 차지하고 있으며, 불연분의 경우 30~50mm가 가장 많은 것으로 나타났다.