NDLI: Evaluation of an auto-guidance system operating on a sugar cane harvester

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Author	Baio, Fábio Henrique Rojo
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Precision farming tools such as auto-guidance systems assembled on tractors and/or sugar cane harvester machines are being applied to decrease the costs involved with ethanol production. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy, the cane loss and the operational field efficiency achieved by an auto-guidance system used to guide a sugar cane harvester over the field when compared to a manually-guided machine. The field test was conducted with two treatments: auto-guidance versus manual guidance; and day versus night. Each treatment was replicated four times. Each position recorded represented a single sample, which was used to calculate the error between the planned and actual paths. It was concluded that the use of an auto-guidance system operating on a sugar cane harvester during the day and night periods increased the field pass-to-pass accuracy relative to the planned row track, but it is essential that the crop was planted using the system. The use of the auto-guidance system did not significantly decrease the sugar cane loss, once the crop was well cultivated. More long-term research needs to be done related to this issue. The operational field efficiency of the cane harvester was the same for both auto-guidance and manual steering systems.
Starting Page	141
Ending Page	147
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13852256
Journal	Precision Agriculture
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15731618
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2011-08-09
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Auto-guidance GPS Sugar cane Operational field efficiency Harvester Meteorology/Climatology Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences Soil Science & Conservation Agriculture
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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