China's first 100-horsepower wheel-driven driverless electric tractor debuts in Luoyang

China News Service, Luoyang, September 8 (Lu Yan, Zhao Mengyang) At present, drones and even driverless cars are increasingly entering the lives of ordinary people, but large professional equipment such as driverless tractors still have a lot of mystery. On the 8th, in the Luoyang National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center and Luoyang Intelligent Agricultural Equipment Research Institute Co., Ltd., reporters saw the hard-core strength of this high-tech "iron bull".

"This is the first 100-horsepower wheel-driven driverless electric tractor in China. The appearance adopts a bionic design concept, imitating a farm cow. The silver-white body and graceful curves make this equipment more powerful and technological, in line with the concept of technological agricultural development," said Wei Pengran, a mechanical design engineer.

This wheel-side motor electric tractor integrates distributed control, four-wheel steering, electronic control lifting, independent electric drive PTO, driverless control and network connection technology to achieve low-speed and high-torque stepless transmission, reduce the turning radius and improve the obstacle-clearing performance of the entire machine, and can better adapt to operations in hilly areas. There have been further breakthroughs and innovations in unmanned, networked and informatized areas.

Wei Pengran said that in addition to the unmanned driving function, the 100-horsepower wheel-side motor tractor can be independently controlled for each wheel to perform complex steering methods such as diagonal steering, dorsal and ventral steering, and in-situ steering. It can not only carry out remote control operations, but also carry out operations and navigation through the mobile phone APP to achieve automatic operations. Its millimeter wave radar has a positioning accuracy of up to 2.5 centimeters and can achieve automatic obstacle avoidance.

The 100-horsepower wheel-side motor tractor is one of the important representative equipment of China's agricultural machinery automation, and the yard where it is located is the "home" where it was developed. The National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center is an innovation platform for the agricultural machinery field jointly funded by more than 10 entities including China YTO, Zoomlion Agricultural Machinery, Jiangsu Yueda, Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, and Qingyan Luoyang. It is the first and only national-level manufacturing innovation center in the agricultural machinery field in China.

In addition to this "Silver Bull", it has also developed the country's first 5G+ hydrogen fuel electric tractor, developed a large-feeding-capacity multi-functional combine harvester, filled the gap in domestic large-feeding volume harvesters, built an intelligent agricultural equipment management platform, and developed Henan Agricultural Machinery Cloud and other data service platforms based on the platform's effectiveness, forming a positive innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem of talent gathering - capital investment - scientific research and development - achievement incubation - industry feeding back scientific research.

"The linkage between schools and enterprises and the implementation of industrialization are the key. One of the purposes of establishing a manufacturing center is to open bridges. We pay special attention to the pilot phase. We have pilot workshops and a large number of inspection and testing equipment, just to carry out industrial verification of some less mature technologies, and turn them into mature technologies and hand them over to enterprises for use." said Li Baozhong, assistant to the general manager of the National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center.

In Li Baozhong's view, automation and intelligence are the general direction for the development of agricultural machinery in China and around the world, and breakthroughs in this area will be of great benefit to solving the problem of "who will farm the land?" The farming model envisioned by the new generation of young people in the future is "sitting in the office and farming." And he also firmly believes that through the development of various agricultural technologies, people will no longer have to work in the fields under the sun or rain in the future.