Effects of Tractor and Soil Parameters on the Depth of the Permanent Traffic Lanes in Controlled Traffic Farming Systems

One of the basic requirements for controlled traffic farming (CTF) is the precise motion of all agricultural equipment on permanent traffic lanes (PTL). Tractors of machine-tractor units are then equipped with a GNSS (global navigation satellite) RTK (real-time kinematic) system, even though in many...

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Published inApplied sciences Vol. 12; no. 13; p. 6620
Main Authors Bulgakov, Volodymyr, Pascuzzi, Simone, Nadykto, Volodymyr, Adamchuk, Valerii, Kaminskiy, Viktor, Kyurchev, Volodymyr, Santoro, Francesco
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.07.2022
Subjects
Agricultural equipment
Agricultural production
Buckingham’s π-theorem
Control equipment
controlled traffic farming
Crop rotation
depth
Dimensional analysis
Factorial experiments
Farm machinery
Farming
Farming systems
Global navigation satellite system
Influence
Mathematical models
Navigation satellites
Parameters
Similarity theory
soil bulk density
soil cone index
Soil density
Soils
Tires
Tractors
Ukraine
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Summary:One of the basic requirements for controlled traffic farming (CTF) is the precise motion of all agricultural equipment on permanent traffic lanes (PTL). Tractors of machine-tractor units are then equipped with a GNSS (global navigation satellite) RTK (real-time kinematic) system, even though in many parts of the world, and Europe as well, satellite navigation is not yet used. In this case, for implementation of the CTF system, it needs to lay such PTL tracks that would be sufficiently visible, especially when using the CTF system in multi-year agricultural crop cultivation. The PTL track depth is influenced by both tractor and soil parameters and, in this paper, this influence is studied considering the dimensionless π-terms of the similarity theory. To obtain a greater depth of PTL tracks (h), the soil cone index must be low. The low density of the soil is important, even if its effect on the parameter h is less than that of the soil cone index. A greater depth of PTL tracks is also obtained by increasing the inflation pressure in the tractor tires. Ballasted wheels are the least effective for increasing the value of the parameter h.
ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/app12136620