Combine Harvesters: Theory, Modeling, and Design

ISBN-13: 9781138748279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 494 str.

Petre Miu

Opis

The design, development, and optimization of modern combine harvesters require a thorough understanding and a suitable representation (model) of each machine system as well as of the whole machine. This book provides a unique and unitary approach of the engineering concepts, construction, and calculations.

Spis treści

Introduction to Combine Harvesters. System Modeling, Simulation, and Control. Crop Harvesting Data and Plant Properties. Plant Cutting, Gathering, and Conveying Processes and Equipment. Cereal Threshing and Separating Processes: Threshing Units. Separation Process and Operation of Straw Walkers. Cleaning Unit Process and Operation. Grain Conveying Process and Equipment. Crop Residue Chopping and Spreading Processes and Equipment. Corn Ear Dehusking Process and Equipment. Power System of a Combine Harvester. Dynamic Modeling of Material Flow in a Combine Harvester. Sensors and Fault Diagnosis Systems for Combine Harvesters. Cab, Controls, and Human–Machine Interface. Guidance and Control of Autonomous Combine Harvesters. References. Bibliography. Appendix.

O autorze

Petre Miu is the owner of Projenics (www.projenics.net), Canada. He worked as a research associate at the Biosystems Engineering Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and as a professor at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Miu began his most prolific and prestigious scientific work in Stuttgart, Germany, at Hohenheim University, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, where the German government awarded him two consecutive postdoctoral Alexander von Humboldt research grants. He has extensive experience in the design of harvesting machinery and equipment, and in other areas, including computer numerical control machining centers, robotics, and electronic packaging of radio frequency radar systems.