DESIGN OF A SMART MASS FLOW SENSOR FOR COMBINE HARVESTERS
K Maertens* J De Baerdemaeker*
* KULeuven, Laboratory for Agro-Machinery and Processing, Kasteelpark Arenberg 30, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, email: koen.maertens@agr.kuleuven.ac.be
A popular method for measuring mass flows on combine harvesters is to register the induced force on a circular chute. Since this type of sensors are strongly subjected to wear and installed on difficult accessible places, it is important to know when the sensor provides wrong measurements without interrupting the process. In this study, a double, adaptive IIR notch filter is designed to track both resonance frequency and paddle rate of the feeding elevator on-line and providing a first rejection of both disturbance frequencies from the flow signal.
Keywords: Flow measurement, Fault detection, Signal processing, Adaptive filters
Session slot T-Mo-A19: IT Based System Control in Agricultural Automation/Area code 4b : Intelligent Control in Agricultural Automation

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