traction efficiency

In this research, field experiments were carried out in two types of soil (sandy clay loam and clay) to model the traction performance of the tractor considering drawbar power, rolling resistance, and traction efficiency, using deep learning and convolutional neural network while having some parameters such as soil type and conditions, tool parameters, and operation parameters. The tests were conducted within each soil texture in the form of factorial tests based on the randomized complete block design (RCBD) in triplicates. The tests were done in various moisture levels (8-17% for dry soils and 18-40% for moist soils), tractor forward speed (1.2, 1.6, 1.8, and 2.2 km h-1), working depth (30 and 50 cm), the number of pass (2 and 6 times), and tire inflation pressure (20 and 25 psi). The cone index, dynamic load, draft force, and moisture content were measured in each tests. The networks designed to model the drawbar power, rolling resistance, and traction efficiency were of convolutional neural network type. Various algorithms such as Sgdm, Adam, and Rmsprop were utilized to train the network. The results showed that the neural network developed by Sgdm algorithm outperformed the others. Therefore, this algorithm was utilized for the modeling process. Statistical criteria such as R2 and MSE were also employed to evaluate the performance of the network. For the drawbar power, the 8-499-499-1 architecture showed the best performance with R2=0.9953 and MSE=0.0016. Concerning the rolling resistance, the best performance was observed in 8-301-305-1 architecture with R2=0.9903 and MSE=0.0039. The best performance for the traction efficiency was obtained by 8-371-371-1 architecture with R2=0.9888 and MSE=0.003. The results showed that these networks can be used to model parameters by removing convolution layers and reducing dimensions.

In this research, the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system was used for predicting the parameters related to traction of tractor included of drawbar power (DP), drive wheels slippage (S), traction efficiency (TE) and overall energy efficiency (OEE) in tractor- implement combination under the effect of independent variables included of tine type (subsoiler and paraplow), depth (30, 40 and 50 cm) and forward speed (1.8, 2.3, 2.9 and 3.5 km/h) during subsoiling operation. The field data were used to create the regression and ANFIS models for predicting the studied parameters and the results of them were compared together. The field results showed that all independent variables were effective on the studied parameters except TE. The increment of forward speed and depth resulted in increase of S, DP, OEE and decrease of TE. Moreover, with considering the studied parameters, the paraplow tine was more commodious than subsoiler tine. The results of ANFIS part showed that about S, DP, TE and OEE, the membership functions of Trimf, dsigmf, Primf and Gaussmf with the mean square error of 0.0159, 0.0231, 0.0212 and 0.0224 also correlation coefficient of 0.9996, 0.9999, 0.9985 and 0.9997 caused the best models to predict, respectively. ANFIS models had higher accuracy than regression models and it could be calculated the model outlet for a special inlet using ANFIS outlet surfaces.

In this research, draft requirement of subsoiler tine plus fuel consumption, slippage, drawbar power, traction efficiency and overall energy efficiency of MF399 and JD3140 tractors at four speeds of 1.8, 2.3, 2.9 and 3.5 km/h and two depths of 40 and 50 cm were compared. Tractor type, speed and depth plus interaction effects had a significant effect on all parameters other than draft and drawbar power. Generally, JD3140 showed a better performance as the increase in speed from 1.8 to 3.5 km/h caused the increase of draft, fuel consumption, slippage, drawbar power and overall energy efficiency in two depths of 40 and 50 cm of 7, 4, 23, 108.3 and 89%, respectively but caused the decrease of traction efficiency of 13.8%. Furthermore, 10 cm increase in depth caused the increase in draft, fuel consumption, slippage and drawbar power of 21.3, 31.6, 20.6 and 21.4%, respectively but caused the decrease in traction efficiency and overall energy efficiency of 9.7 and 25%, respectively. The results of optimization of studied parameters using response surface methodology (RSM) show that depth of 42.9 cm and speed of 2.4 km/h resulted in the optimized condition about the performance of the tractor-subsoiler set.