Potato seed-metering monitoring and improved miss-seeding catching-up compensation control system using spatial capacitance sensor

Guanping Wang, Xiaoping Yang, Wei Sun, Yan Liu, Chengjiang Wang, Hua Zhang, Xiaolong Liu, Bin Feng, Hongling Li

Abstract


The congenital yield reduction caused by miss-seeding in spoon-type seed-metering device of small and medium-sized potato planter is huge. Based on the physical mechanism of different measured capacitance values between two fixed capacitor plates with different media, a miss-seeding detection scheme based on a spatial capacitance sensor is proposed first. A simple and efficient spatial capacitance sensor that can obtain as large capacitance measurement value as possible is designed, and a dual CPU coordinated seed-monitoring and compensation control system architecture is adopted. AD7745 is selected for the capacitance measure of the spatial capacitance sensor, and the code of grating encoder is also recorded at the same time. Thereby, when each potato spoon passing through the space surrounded by the capacitor plates, the maximum net capacitance fluctuation and its corresponding position can be acquired. A suitable threshold can distinguish between normal-seeding and miss-seeding effectively. Moreover, it should be emphasized that, this monitoring system only requires one monitoring point. Then, based on obtained information, an improved miss-seeding catching-up compensation plan is put forward. By utilizing the powerful memory capability of the CPU, this system does not need to complete compensation immediately after the miss-seeding identification. Instead, the miss-seeding information and the location of the accident can be just marked in advance, and only when the opportunity arrives, can the miss-seeding catching-up compensation be truly executed. In this way, the position of the seed-monitoring points can be free from restriction, and the control strategy can therefore be significantly simplified. The soil tank test data showed that, the identification accuracy of the miss-seeding detection system was not less than 94%. When the seed-metering chain speeds are 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4 m/s, the average success rates of the miss-seeding compensation system are 94.32%, 83.65%, and 75.00%, respectively. The final miss-seeding rate can be below 3%, and the average deviation compensation rate was not higher than 30%, the miss-seeding was suppressed significantly. This system is a beneficial try in the non-photoelectric detection field and low complexity miss-seeding compensation for potato seeding.
Key words: potato planter; seed-metering monitoring; miss-seeding; spatial capacitance sensor; maximum net capacitance fluctuation; improved catching-up compensation
DOI: 10.25165/j.ijabe.20241704.8475

Citation: Wang G P, Yang X P, Sun W, Liu Y, Wang C J, Zhang H, et al. Potato seed-metering monitoring and improved miss-seeding catching-up compensation control system using spatial capacitance sensor. Int J Agric & Biol Eng, 2024; 17(4): 255–264.

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potato planter; seed-metering monitoring; miss-seeding; spatial capacitance sensor; maximum net capacitance fluctuation; improved catching-up compensation

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