A self driving tractor in a field is actually going to be pretty easy to do. They would have the technology for that.
A person with an iPad could watch 3-5 of them working a whole farm in a section or township or whatever.
The trouble is what happens when a cultivator shovel falls off, or a shank breaks, or the cultivator plugs, or a hyd hose breaks, it a branch (half a tree) is laying in the field, or a big hunk,of old metal is dug up and hanging on the implement. Or 10,000 other possible issues.
The driving, steering, even turning and raising and lowering the implement, that’s all real easy. You can monitor the pull power needed and a lot of bigger things and keep track of how the big things are working.
But how do you monitor for every little thing that possibly could happen?
There is a fella, well a group, that is working on ‘open source’ tractor controls. It would be to electronic farming controls what Linux is to computers.
He is pretty smart guy and of course he shares his thoughts a little easier than the companies doing this for profit.....
He said last summer, the driving and controls is easy, it is dealing with the remaining 2% of the operation. Dealing with the odd issues that come up while going round and round in a field. He said he really doesn’t see a truly driverless tractor happening for a long time, if ever. As you add more monitoring equipment, the expenses go up and then you have to start monitoring the monitoring equipment for failures..... and then you find there is another whole set of issues you need to monitor for you didn’t think of before......
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