Improving Students' Knowledge in Agro-mechatronics and Engineering by Involvement in the Development of a New Solution for Kinematics of Continuous-operating Hole Digging Machine with Active Soil Tillage Unit

• Published in: 2022 45th Jubilee International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO) pp. 1363 - 1368
• Main Authors: Beloev, H., Long, Nguyen Duc, Nhu, Dau The
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Croatian Society MIPRO 23.05.2022
• Subjects: Biological system modeling; engineering education; Kinematics; Knowledge engineering; Productivity; Seminars; Simulation; Soil; sustainable farming
• ISSN: 2623-8764
• DOI: 10.23919/MIPRO55190.2022.9803396

The paper aims to present the introduction of new engineering solutions in the educational process in agro-mechatronics. The results achieved by an international team of researchers in the field of the kinematics of continuous-operating hole digging machines with active soil tillage units are considered valuable for the further improvement of the education process through the direct involvement in research activities of Ph.D. students and critical thinking strengthening by discussions on the development of the proposed theoretical model during the seminars. The experience gained leads to improving the educational content of the curricula of the specialties in agro-mechatronics with further implications in related sustainable, organic, or bio-farming educational practices and the appropriate engineering technologies. The simulation results have already been introduced as discussion cases in the learning approach in agro-mechatronics and the education in "Agriculture technologies and technics" and "Ecology and environmental protection" at Ruse University (Bulgaria). The structure of the paper encompasses both a literature overview of the existing applicable decisions for optimizing the operation and productivity of hole digging machines with active soil tillage units and the calculations and simulations results from experimental work as well as their adaption to the educational process.