Refine
Year of publication
- 2015 (1)
Document Type
- Doctoral Thesis (1)
Language
- English (1)
Has Fulltext
- yes (1)
Keywords
- front loader (1)
- inertial measurement unit (1)
- loader (1)
- mobile scale (1)
- position detection (1)
- tractor (1)
- weighing (1)
Faculty / Organisational entity
This thesis deals with the development of a tractor front loader scale which measures payload continuously, independent of the center of gravity of the payload, and unaffected of the position and movements of the loader. To achieve this, a mathematic model of a common front loader is simplified which makes it possible to identify its parameters by a repeatable and automatic procedure. By measuring accelerations as well as cylinder forces, the payload is determined continuously during the working process. Finally, a prototype was build and the scale was tested on a tractor.