• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.571-574
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• 2003

Three sediment traps were placed at the toe of sloping fields in the alpine belt of Korea and sediment removal efficiency was estimated. Soil texture of the site was sandy soil and 5 runoff and sediment events were observed during 2002. Sediment was largely affected by both the amount and intensity of rainfall. Especially, rainfall intensity seemed to have profound effect on sediment yield from sloping sandy fields. Sediment removal of the sediments ranged widely from 266 kg/ha to 16,974 kg/ha depending on tillage method, slope and slope length, and amount and intensity of rainfall. Sediment removal efficiency was estimated to be more than 98.8%. It was suggested that rational combination of sediment trap and drainage channel might well contribute to control sediment discharge from alpine sloping fields.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.45-53
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• 2017

Disc harrow-type composite working implements of tractors are able to work almost 15km/hr. Soil reversing and plowing of agricultural fields are thereby faster than the existing rotavator speed of 2.5 km/h. In Korea, its supply process is being delayed because of the traditional tillage method of rotavator plowing operations. To develop products suitable for the domestic environment, an analysis and inspection was performed on the products of advanced specifications. 3D modeling was performed on main parts and frames using 3D scanner.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.66-72
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• 1978

Cultural practices favoring the crops are one of the excellent weed control measures in upland crops. The primary cultural method for weed-management may include planting of weed-competitive cultivars, proper planting time and spacing, optimum rate and placement of fertilizer, crop rotation, mulching, and timely tillage. However, cultural method must be applied as a part of the program along with all other available means for controlling weeds since this method alone is not adequate. The efficient and economical weed control can only be achieved by combinating cultural, mechanical method that supplement each other into a weed management system. Intelligent selection of weed control, however, presuppose knowledge of the life history and growth requirements of the weed and its interaction with the environment.

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.22-27
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• 2003

An autonomous tractor requires not only automatic steering (automatic guidance) but also automated control of tractor functions and implement operations. Examples of tractor functions include engine throttle, transmission speed, and 3-point hitch position. Implement operations include tillage, planting, and cultivating. This article provides an overview of a map-based methodology used for the implementation of autonomous field operations of agricultural tractors. The procedure for developing autonomous field operation maps were presented, and several important issues in the implementation of map-based autonomous operations were discussed. These issues included combining field operation maps, position offset, and real-time sensing and update of field operation maps.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.3-8
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• 2002

쌀은 전 세계에서 매년 약 4억 톤이 생산되어 세계인구의 약 45%에게 주식으로 제공되고 있다. 우리나라에서는 쌀 농사가 농업소득의 약 44%를 차지하는 농가의 주 소득원으로 경제적 비중이 크다. 또한 WTO 개방경제 체제에서는 쌀 생산농가가 생존하기 위해서는 생산비 절감을 통한 가격경쟁력 제고와 품질향상을 통한 소비자 선호도 확보가 가장 중요한 과제이다. 지금까지 우리나라의 벼농사는 생산비 절감이나 품질향상보다는 수량증대에 치중하여 쌀 산업의 국제경쟁력은 매우 취약한 실정이다. 손 모내기에서 중묘 기계이앙 기계기술이 확립되어 확대보급 되었고 이보다 육묘비용 및 노력을 절감할 수 있는 어린 모 재배 기술이 보급되기 시작하였으나, 미국 등 선진국의 벼농사 노동 투하시간 3.5시간/㏊에 비하여 우리나라는 328시간/㏊ 쌀 생산비는 미국의 2,018천원/㏊에 비하여 우리나라는 5,105/천원㏊로 월등히 높아 노동 투하시간을 획기적으로 줄일 수 있는 기계기술 개발이 요구되고 있다. (중략)

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.239-245
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• 2015

In order to control the hybrid power system efficiently, the knowledge for the required load of the system is important. The agricultural tractor performs various farm works such as plow, rotary, and baler. When it performs rotary tillage and baler operation, the generated work load is analyzed. To analyze trend of work load, moving average technique is applied to the measurement data. Optimal control inputs for the two works are obtained from simulation using the dynamic programming. The novel fundamental control strategy for parallel hybrid tractor called Max. SOC is proposed.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.71-77
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• 1993

This study was conducted in order to figure out the energy consumption pattern in rice production system of Korea, with literature investigation focused on energy requirement in rice production system in worldwide. The investigation reveals that 24,994 MJ/ha was needed to produce 4,500kg of rice production or 5.55 MJ/kg was consumed. The major enegry consumptions are resulted from the application of nitrogen fertilizer, fuel for farm machinery, and farm machinery embodied energy, which showed somewhat different energy consumption pattern than that of the developed country, like, U.S.A. Based on the machinery chosen in this investigation, it was found that 32.7% of the fuel energy, 2,431.8MJ, was consumed in drying operation, 32.2%, 2.402MJ, in tillage and land preparation. 25.8%, 1.923.6MJ in harvest. A linear relationship was found in pre harvest energy input and output of rice production.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Crop Science Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.207.2-207.2
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• 2007

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.219-227
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• 1991

This paper concerns with experimental verification of the theory on the safe VHP positions presented in the first part of this study. In the experiment, tillage operation was conducted using a plow mounted to the threepoint hitch and the forces acting on the hitch points were measured. Using the data from the test tractor and plow, computer simualtion was also conducted and its results were compared with those obtained from the field experiment. The comparison showed a reasonable agreement between the two results, by which the theoretical method for the determination of safe VHP positions for steering control can be verified. Some guidelines for expanding the safe VHP region were finally proposed.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.30-36
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• 2013

Tractor is a farm vehicle that is designed to provide a high tractive effort at low speed. It is used for versatile agricultural tasks such as hauling a trailer, tillage, mowing and construction work. Most older tractors use a manual transmission. However, as the intensity of work increases, tractors equipped with automatic transmission become popular due to the work convenience. In order to give the operator a large degree of control in field work, 24 gears with automatic 8-speed and manual 3-speed are arranged in transmission. This paper deals with the gear train that is designed for 8-speed automatic transmission by the engagement of multi-disk clutches. The gear ratio for each speed as well as power transmission mechanism is analyzed through velocity analysis. In addition, constraints of mesh gear ratio are derived by investigating the power flow path in velocity diagram for the given 8-speed gear ratio.