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Field application uniformity and accuracy of two rate control systems with automatic section capabilities on agricultural sprayers 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Ajay Sharda Joe D. Luck John P. Fulton Timothy P. McDonald Scott A. Shearer 《Precision Agriculture》2013,14(3):307-322
The adoption of automatic section control (ASC) on agricultural sprayers remains popular since it reduces overlap and application in unwanted areas leading to input savings and improved environmental stewardship. Most spray controllers attempt to maintain the desired target rate during ASC actuation (ON and OFF of control sections which change the width of boom-section actually spraying) but limited knowledge exists regarding controller response and nozzle discharge variation during field operation. Therefore, field experiments were conducted using two common self-propelled sprayers equipped with commercially available control systems with ASC capabilities. Pressure transducers were mounted across the spray booms to record real-time nozzle pressure with data tagged with GPS location and time. Nozzle flow was obtained from nozzle pressure to compute nozzle flow uniformity or coefficient of variations (CVs) across the ON boom, off-rate errors (percent difference between actual and target nozzle flow rate) and settling times. Results indicated that nozzle CVs were >10 % for both auto-boom and auto-nozzle control systems, when each of the auto-boom and auto-nozzle sections were turned back ON for 0.5 and 0.2 s, respectively. Further, nozzle off-rate errors exceeding ±10 % occurred in both rectangular and irregular shaped fields. These off-rate errors primarily occurred during ASC actuation while at the same time the sprayer was being accelerated or decelerated. The extended nozzle flow settling times of up to 20 s (delayed response) indicated that the rate controller may require intelligent and enhanced control algorithms to minimize nozzle flow stabilization and thereby a reduction in sprayer off-rate errors during field operation. 相似文献
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Agricultural sprayers are utilized in applying pesticides to control pests and diseases in crops. The increase in machine size and a better control system have been associated with increased productivity, improved efficiency and minimized the impact of the chemical on the environment. However, wider booms may contribute to application error due to the difference in speed between the inner and outer boom section when applying in curvilinear passes. Field tests were conducted in three irregular shaped fields with varying terrain using a 36.6-m self-propelled sprayer with a turn compensation technology. The results showed that turning occurred near the grassed waterways, boundaries and end of headlands. The product was applied during turning to 19.0% of Field 1, 17.8% of Field 2 and 22.5% of Field 3. These could have been the percentage of field areas that may receive more or less product if the sprayer was not equipped with turn compensation technology. As expected, the speed difference between the inner and outer boom increases as the radius of turn decreases. The speed difference could translate to an under-application on the outer boom section where the speed is much faster and over-application on the inner boom section where the speed is slower. The application errors from such speed differential could vary from ??48.2 to +?1058.0%, depending on the turning radius. However, the pulse width modulation system implemented duty cycles based on turning speeds, which resulted to a 90.0% application rate uniformity across the field regardless of the travel path during operation.
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Gerhards R. Sökefeld M. Timmermann C. Kühbauch W. Williams M. M. 《Precision Agriculture》2002,3(1):25-35
A four-year study of site-specific weed control is presented in this paper. Weed seedling distribution was sampled and mapped prior to and after post-emergence herbicide application in four fields planted with maize, sugar beets, winter wheat and winter barley, rotating on one site. Herbicides and other weed control strategies were applied site-specifically according to the spatial variation of weed populations. Different decision algorithms were used for chemical weed control methods in each crop. A weed treatment map was created to direct location and dosage of herbicide application. The sprayer was coupled with a differential Global Positioning System (DGPS). The solenoid valves of the sprayer were opened automatically when the tractor entered a weed patch characterized in the weed treatment map. For site specific herbicide application, a patch sprayer was developed that allowed variable rate application and the selective control of each section of the spray boom. 相似文献
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对自走式喷杆喷雾机、多旋翼植保飞行器、背负式机动弥雾机3种不同植保机械施药的作业效果及水稻病虫防治效果进行比较。结果表明,自走式喷杆喷雾机与植保飞行器工效远高于背负式机动弥雾机,是背负式机动弥雾机的6.7~10.0倍。且自走式喷杆喷雾机用工成本较低,每公顷24元,植保飞行器用工成本每公顷36元,是背负式机动弥雾机的1/5~1/3。多旋翼植保机飞行器喷药速度比自走式喷杆喷雾机快,但电池充电耗时较长。自走式喷杆喷雾机喷幅宽,喷雾均匀、用水量足,与多旋翼植保飞行器均适用于大面积推广,值得应用。多旋翼植保飞行器对水稻病害的防治效果较差,其用水量与病害控制效果有一定的关系,建议加大用水量或添加沉降剂使用。 相似文献
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Real-time technology was developed and tested to variably apply fungicides on the plant surface of cereals. An important step
towards variable-rate fungicide application in real time is the development and operation of online sensors for measuring
plant parameters. The sensor signal of the CROP-Meter (real-time sensor to measure crop biomass density) is correlated with
the Leaf Area Index, a measurement characterising the plant surface. Geostatistical analysis of the sensor values in the experimental
fields showed that the autocorrelation distance was greater than 25 m, which was wider than the spray boom of the sensor-controlled
field sprayer. Control of individual sections of the spray boom was therefore not necessary in the 5-year experiments. In
the eleven field trials, average fungicide savings of 22% were achieved. Field scale strip trials were conducted with the
sensor-operated field sprayer to analyse the yield response of the crop. Higher, lower, as well as similar yield levels were
obtained in the variable-rate plots by comparison with the uniform plots. 相似文献
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Travis Esau Qamar Zaman Dominic Groulx Kenny Corscadden Young Chang Arnold Schumann Peter Havard 《Precision Agriculture》2016,17(6):753-765
The wild blueberry industry is spending over $80 million CAD per year on agrochemicals for 93 000 ha under production in North America. A pressing need to reduce agro-chemical usage and production cost has resulted in the development of a smart sprayer for spot-application of agrochemicals in wild blueberry fields. This paper encompasses the economic analysis to determine the potential savings for spot-applications of agrochemicals using a smart sprayer. The economic analysis compared the smart sprayer with two other commercially available sprayers (basic and swath control). The swath control sprayer and smart sprayer both featured GPS auto-steer and boom section control to reduce over-spray in already applied areas based on GPS position. The basic sprayer used a foam marker for guidance with no swath control management. The smart sprayer featured a machine vision system that automatically detected target areas in the field further reducing agrochemical input by shutting individual nozzles off in non-target areas in the field. The cost analysis was performed to compare the different features of the sprayer technologies, i.e., base sprayer, additional technology, training, usage, repair and maintenance. The additional components installed on the smart sprayer were justified in terms of agrochemicals/water savings via spot-applications, tractor fuel and operator’s time. The application total cost was $2052 ha?1 using the basic sprayer, $1799 ha?1 using the swath control sprayer, and $1138 ha?1 using the smart sprayer over a 2 year production cycle of the selected fields that were used in this study. The payback period ranged from 2.0 years (60 ha field size) to 9.8 years (20 ha field size) using the swath control sprayer. The payback period ranged from 11 months (60 ha field size) to 3.5 years (20 ha field size) when using the smart sprayer. Results revealed that the smart sprayer had significant advantage from both an environmental and economic perspective over the other two sprayers. 相似文献
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Travis Esau Qamar Zaman Dominic Groulx Aitazaz Farooque Arnold Schumann Young Chang 《Precision Agriculture》2018,19(4):770-788
An essential part of the wild blueberry cropping system is the proper management of agrochemical inputs including herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. A machine vision system was developed and mounted on the rear sprayer boom 0.18 m in front of the sprayer nozzles capable of targeting the agrochemical application on an as-needed basis. The three-point hitch mounted sprayer featured 27 nozzles over a 13.7 m boom width and a storage tank capacity of 1135 l. Nine digital color cameras continually take images in real-time while computer software processes the images in 0.15 s to determine the target locations where the nozzles open and spray at speeds up to 1.77 m s?1. Two wild blueberry fields in central Nova Scotia were selected for smart sprayer performance testing with spot-application (SA) of agrochemical as compared to control and uniform application techniques. Chateau® herbicide was applied in a field with an infestation of hair cap moss. Spray droplet comparison showed moss patches were properly targeted using the smart sprayer. SA provided the same coverage performance as compared to uniform on the moss targets with herbicide application savings of 78.5% using the smart sprayer. Harvestable yield results were similar for all application tracks. TruPhos Magnesium and ZincMax foliar fertilizers were tank mixed with Bravo® and Proline® fungicides and applied to compare the difference of SA, control and uniform application. Results showed SA of foliar fertilizer and fungicide led to less premature leaf drop and increased the blueberry stem height, number of branches, stem diameter and fruit buds. SA of foliar fertilizer and fungicide also increased the percent of healthy wild blueberry plants by 57.8% and the harvestable yield by 137.8%. Fungicide application savings using the smart sprayer for SA were 11.6%. 相似文献
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Real-time nozzle flow uniformity when using automatic section control on agricultural sprayers 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Ajay Sharda John P. Fulton Timothy P. McDonald Christian J. Brodbeck 《Computers and Electronics in Agriculture》2011,79(2):169-179
Automatic section control (ASC) has been readily adopted by US producers on sprayers because it can improve operator productivity and decrease overlap or input usage leading to economic savings while reducing environmental impacts. However, there is limited knowledge about nozzle flow dynamics when shutting ON/OFF of boom-sections or nozzles and the possible impact on application accuracy. Therefore, an investigation was conducted to evaluate system response in managing real-time nozzle off-rate and flow uniformity across the boom, for a typical agricultural sprayer using ASC. An 18.3-m sprayer was outfitted with commercially available individual nozzle and boom-section control. Tests were conducted to simulate sprayer moving out of point rows into a no-spray zone and then reentry into the spray zone by selecting two point row scenarios having 20° and 70° angles. Ten high frequency response pressure sensors were randomly mounted across the boom to measure nozzle pressure. The nozzle pressures were converted to nozzle flow, using the manufacturers pressure versus flow relationship, to calculate nozzle flow rate delay time, settling time, percent off-rate (percent difference between actual and target nozzle flow rate) and nozzle flow uniformity (CV), considering only ON boom-sections. Auto-boom scenarios were conducted with and with-out flow compensation while auto-nozzle scenarios were conducted without flow compensation. Results indicated that nozzle flow rate settling time varied from 0.4 to 14.4 s and nozzle off-rate between 36.6% and +28.7% for 70° point row auto-boom tests when exiting and reentering point rows. When exiting point rows, over-application occurred whereas reentry resulted in under-application during flow compensated tests. Nozzle flow uniformity (CV) were more than 50% for a short duration (<1.0 s) when reentering point rows, during all tests. Compensation testing for 20° point row reentry highlighted the constraint of the control system to respond to certain situations where feedback response times could not match target rates rapidly set for the controller. Overall results indicated that system response time can impact nozzle off-rate and can vary with point row angle. 相似文献
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F. Lebeau A. VerstraeteC. Stainier M.-F. Destain 《Computers and Electronics in Agriculture》2011,77(2):161-174
A spray drift model called RTDrift was developed to estimate drift caused by ground sprayer machines. The sprayer was equipped with sensors measuring operational parameters namely spray pressure, boom height and movements, and geolocalisation. Climatic parameters, including wind speed and direction, were measured using a 2-D ultrasonic anemometer mounted on the sprayer. The nozzles spray drop size spectra were characterised using Phase Doppler Interferometer measurements. At every successive boom position, a diffusion-advection Gaussian tilted plume model computed the spray drift deposits for each drop class taking into account evaporation. The contribution of a single nozzle was calculated by integration of the individual puffs with respect to time and summation of the contributions of individual drops classes. The overall drift generated by the sprayer machine was obtained adding the contributions of all the nozzles. Field trials were performed on a fallow field with water and on crops with pesticides in various wind conditions. The ground drift was measured at different drift distances using fluorometric methods. When comparing the results of the model with experimental measurements of deposits, the model produced realistic maps of drift deposits. Some further improvement is needed in the presence of large scale eddies. The model offers potential benefits for the farmer as a real time drift estimator embedded on a sprayer machine. 相似文献
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不同植保机械喷雾雾滴沉积分布对小麦病害的防治效果 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
通过比较自走式喷杆喷雾机、无人植保飞行器、背负式弥雾机3种植保机械喷雾在小麦上的农药雾滴沉积分布,分析其对小麦病害防治效果的影响。结果表明,自走式喷杆喷雾机雾滴沉积密度和雾滴覆盖率都较高,是植保飞行器的8~10倍,自走式喷杆喷雾机雾滴沉积密度为136.19~167.53个/cm~2,雾滴覆盖率为12.96%~28.13%,雾滴覆盖率上部与中部高于下部叶片。对小麦病害防治效果较好,小麦纹枯病病指防效达61.60%,赤霉病防效达71.43%,白粉病防效达78.02%。植保飞行器喷雾在小麦上、中、下部位的雾滴沉积密度分别为14.28、13.15、18.42个/cm~2,雾滴覆盖率分别为2.45%、2.08%、1.46%,植保飞行器喷雾在小麦上、中、下部雾滴分布均匀。植保飞行器喷雾对小麦病害防效较好,纹枯病病指防效达63.26%~75.20%,赤霉病病指防效达85.71%,白粉病病指防效达70.33%。背负式弥雾机喷雾在小麦上的雾滴沉积密度为81.21~147.12个/cm~2,雾滴覆盖率为7.26%~28.76%,总体表现为上部中部下部,且差异性显著。 相似文献
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为研究常用植保机械对农作物病虫防治的应用效果,采用雾滴沉积分布、粒径大小检测和田间调查等方法,对9种常用植保机械防治小麦穗蚜的农药沉积率和效果进行测定。结果表明:电动喷雾器、机动弥雾机和自走式喷杆喷雾机沉积率较高,达到51.4%~63.7%;单旋翼无人机和地面喷雾机械防治效果达到80%以上,优于其他低空低量植保机械;在专业化统防统治作业中,自走式喷杆喷雾机适宜大面积推广使用;低空低量喷雾防漂移技术、专用助剂、农药剂型等需加大研发力度。 相似文献
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Development of a target oriented weed control system 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
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The quality of an agrochemical application is a combination of the efficacy of deposit, productivity of the operation, and avoidance of off-site movement. A GPS- and sensor-based system was developed to document the quality of spray applications from a self-propelled sprayer. Confirmation of the spray deposition was accomplished with spray sampling surfaces (water sensitive paper) located at surveyed sampling points in the test fields. An image analysis technique was developed to estimate quantitative and qualitative data, such as relative droplet size spectra, and spray coverage from the cards. Relative performance of two flow control techniques, namely conventional pressure-based control and blended-pulse flow control were documented. Blended-pulse control produced a wider dynamic range and superior consistency of deposit when speed varied over a 3:1 range, or a 6:1 variable rate range was desired. Real-time mitigation of spray drift was accomplished through droplet size changes when sensed weather conditions and sprayer location suggested a potential hazard. 相似文献
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[目的]比较不同喷雾器以及喷头对农药有效利用率和施药效率的影响。[方法]采用诱惑红作为农药喷雾的示踪剂,分析了4种喷雾器及喷头在田间喷雾下的雾滴大小、施药效率、叶片农药的沉积回收率和雾滴田间分布均匀性。[结果]农药的有效利用率方面表现为电动喷雾器>机动喷雾器>手动喷雾器>手动弥雾器;施药效率方面表现为机动喷雾器>电动喷雾器>手动弥雾器>手动喷雾器;农药雾滴田间分布均匀性方面表现为电动喷雾器最好,其余都较差。[结论]为新型植保器械的推广应用提供了理论依据。 相似文献
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[目的]玉米抗倒伏化控剂喷施缺少适宜机具,拟通过开展植保机具选型试验,筛选适宜化控剂喷施作业的机型。[方法]采用大田试验与实验室检测相结合的方法,检测约翰迪尔4630型、3W-500型和3WBD-16型3种植保机型开展化控作业的适应性。[结果]4630型喷杆喷雾机配套防飘扇形雾喷头作业其雾滴粒径较大,雾滴沉积密度低,且多分布在下部叶片,不利于叶片吸收,化控效果较差,且植株损伤率最高;3WBD-16型背负式电动喷雾器配套圆锥雾喷头作业喷雾均匀性最低,化控作业后效果不均匀,田间整齐度低,作业成本最高;3W-500型东方红悬挂式喷杆喷雾机配套标准扇形雾喷头作业质量和作业效率优于背负式电动喷雾器,作业后化控效果显著优于约翰迪尔4630型喷杆喷雾机,且作业成本最低。[结论]3W-500型东方红悬挂式喷杆喷雾机适宜在京郊地区玉米化控作业中应用。 相似文献
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[目的]明确无人机不同喷液量对大豆一年生禾本科杂草的防治效果。[方法]以背负式静电喷雾器常量喷雾为对照,研究植保无人机喷施不同喷液量5%精喹禾灵EC对大豆一年生禾本科杂草的防治效果。[结果]5%精喹禾灵EC制剂用药量为1 050 m L/hm2,植保无人机喷液量为7 500~12 000 m L/hm~2时对大豆安全,植保无人机喷液量为9 000、10 500 m L/hm~2时对夏大豆田一年生禾本科杂草的防治效果较好,与背负式静电喷药450 kg/hm~2时效果相当。[结论]试验结果为无人机的大面积推广应用提供了理论依据。 相似文献