Design and experiment on real-time monitoring system of wheat seeding

To monitor wheat planting performance on real time, a real-time monitoring system of wheat planting performance based on CAN bus was designed. The general structure of the system was elaborate, the hardware and software of the system was designed and the field experiment was conducted. The system included sensor unit for signal collecting, monitoring module, Controller Area Network (CAN) module and terminal, and could monitor the status of seed tube, working speed, rotation velocity of seed shaft. Photoelectric sensor was used to convert quantities of seed tube status into voltage signals, and hall sensor was used to convert quantities of wheel axis rotation velocity into pulse signals. Monitoring module judge the status of seed tube (normal, blocked and missing), and calculate the rotation velocity of wheel axis and seed shaft based on the signals output by sensors. At the same time, monitoring module calculate working speed according to the rotation velocity of wheel axis information. Then the information obtained by monitoring module was uploaded to terminal by CAN bus and displayed on real time on the terminal. The result of the experiment showed that there was no false alarm at the working speed of 10 km/h, the monitoring accuracy of seed tube fault status was >98%, blocked alarm response time <0.2 s, missing alarm response time <0.5 s. The system worked reliably and had a strong ability to anti-dusting and anti-vibration, and effectively monitored wheat planting performance. © 2017, Editorial Department of the Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering. All right reserved.