Behavior modelling and sensing for machinery operations using smartphone’s sensor data: A case study of forage maize sowing

Caicong Wu, Zhibo Chen, Dongxu Wang, Zhihong Kou, Yaping Cai, Weizhong Yang

Abstract


Large-scale agricultural machinery cooperatives require technical statistic report of agricultural machinery operations to improve the efficiency of fleet management. This research proposed a smartphone-based solution to build the behavior model for agricultural machinery operations by using the embedded sensors including the GNSS, the accelerometer, and the microphone. The whole working process of agricultural machinery operation was divided into four stages: preparation, operation, U-turn, and transfer, each of which may contain the behaviors of stalling and idling. Field experiments were carried out by skilled operators, whose operations were typical agricultural machinery operations that could be used to extract behavior features. Butterworth low-pass filter was used to smooth the output from the accelerometer. Then, the operating data were collected through an APP when sowing the forage maize as a case study. Four stages of machinery operation can be preliminarily classified by using GNSS speed, while the identification of behaviors such as sudden acceleration and longtime idling that may increase fuel consumption, reduce machinery life, or decrease the working efficiency, requires extra information such as acceleration and sound intensity. The results showed that the jerk of accelerating can describe the severity of the sudden acceleration, the standard deviation of forward acceleration can reflect the smoothness of operation, the upward acceleration can be used to identify behaviors of stalling and idling, and the sound intensity during idling can capture the behavior of goosing the throttle. Further, the operating behavior figure can be drawn based on the above parameters. In conclusion, this research constructed several behavior models of agricultural machinery and operators by using smartphone’s sensor data and established the base of the online assessing and scoring system for agricultural machinery operations.
Keywords: agricultural machinery operation, behavior modeling, smartphone, sensors, case study, forage maize
DOI: 10.25165/j.ijabe.20191206.4702

Citation: Wu C C, Chen Z B, Wang D X, Kou Z H, Cai Y P, Yang W Z. Behavior modelling and sensing for machinery operations using smartphone’s sensor data: a case study of forage maize sowing. Int J Agric & Biol Eng, 2019; 12(6): 66–74.

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agricultural machinery operation, behavior modeling, smartphone, sensors, case study, forage maize

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