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Isobus Demonstrator And Working Environment For Agricultural Engineering Education

¹A. Ruckelshausen, ²T. Dzinaj, ¹T. Kinder, ¹D. Bosse, ¹R. Klose

1. University of Applied Sciences Osnabr
2. Competence Center ISOBUS e.V. Zum Gruth

ISOBUS is the international standard for communication on agricultural equipment. In practice, however, a manufacturer independent tractor-implement communication is still a significant problem. This aspect has been identified as a major hindrance for the transfer of research results into products for precision farming. As a consequence the ISOBUS standard should strongly be included in education and research, which is the focus of this work.

In the world’s first ISOBUS multi-manufacturer initiative several companies (such as Amazone, Grimme, Krone, Kuhn, Lemken, Rauch) and the authors have designed a user-friendly usability concept for ISOBUS-compatible agricultural machinery. For demonstration the ISO-Terminal CCI 100/200 has been developed and successfully tested in practice. This cross-manufacturer ISO-Terminal, in combination with a sensor system are the key components of the demonstrator. Therefore, an innovative state-of-the-art 3D-Time-of-flight (ToF) camera has been chosen as a sensor system for ISOBUS integration. Besides the direct distance information, the camera (ifm) provides a single sensor output of the projected volume in relation to a predefined surface. Thus volumes of agricultural material (such as potatoes, grass or wheat) can be estimated. The sensor signal is transferred, visualized in the ISO-Terminal and can activate other processes via ISOBUS.

The ISO-compatible development of the software and system integration serves as an example for an ISOBUS working environment for students applied in laboratory experiments or projects. Depending on the courses (engineering, computer science or agriculture) the level of complexity can be adopted. With the integration of standard ISOBUS interfaces in research, field tests can be performed more easily using the high amount of compatible machinery of farmers. This results in a reduction of development steps. Thus the working environment has a high potential for education and research. The consequent introduction of ISOBUS has sustainable effects for the implementation of precision farming technologies in practice.

Keyword: ISOBUS, 3D-Time-of-flight Camera, Education, Precision Farming, Agricultural Engineering

A. Ruckelshausen T. Dzinaj T. Kinder D. Bosse R. Klose Education and Training in Precision Agriculture Oral 2010

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