Working Vehicle Imaging Control for Real-Time Ground Grading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current agricultural work planning systems for tractors lack the ability to effectively assess and adjust ground working operations based on real-time imaging and surface conditions, leading to inefficiencies and suboptimal results.
Innovation Solution
A tractor system equipped with imaging devices to capture ground working results, storage for image and operation data, and a controller to adjust traveling conditions and grading based on these images, allowing for real-time assessment and improvement of ground working operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If real-time imaging and assessment systems are added to ground working vehicles, then ground working quality and efficiency are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The imaging device serves multiple functions: capturing ground surface images, assessing ground working results, providing visual feedback to operators, and enabling automated grading evaluations. This multi-functionality justifies the added complexity by consolidating multiple system needs into a single integrated component.
Solution Approach 2:
The system captures images of ground working results and provides real-time visual feedback to operators through displays. This feedback loop enables operators to immediately assess ground working quality and make adjustments, directly improving productivity while the automated assessment algorithms handle the complex analysis work.
2Manufacturing precision
If automated ground working assessment based on images is implemented, then grading accuracy is improved, but measurement precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses image processing algorithms and automated assessment software as intermediaries between the raw image data and the final grading results. These intermediaries handle the complex measurements and comparisons, reducing the precision requirements of individual image measurements while maintaining high overall grading accuracy through computational methods.
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AI summary
A working vehicle includes a vehicle body capable of traveling, a ground working device attached to the vehicle body to perform ground working, an imaging device located on the vehicle body to image a ground working result after the ground working by the ground working device, and a storage to store a ground working image representing the ground working result taken by the imaging device.