Development of Medium-Sized Multipurpose Agriculture Vehicle

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Kanchana Daoden, Sureeporn Sringam, Supanat Nicrotha,Thanawat Sornnen

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In this decade, the farmers in Thailand suffered from a labour shortage, loss during harvest, improved productivity and increased cost of the farming part. The rice crop plots of the northeast province have been set to the case study. This research aimed to develop the Medium-Sized Multipurpose Agriculture Vehicle (MSMAv) innovative from the conventional agriculture tractor for two purposes. The firstly is to present the novel modified technique of automatic gear for the MSMAv to serve the development of automatic control that expect to reduce the number of labour while controlling machine. Secondly, extending the implementation for several peripheral via a drawbar or hitch system means minimizing the cost of the machine investment. Therefore, the research team has collaborated to develop the conventional farm tractor by changing from a manual to an automatic gear system, including supplementing equipment such as a remote-control system, GPS, car camera, sensors, voice command, for instance, based on existing technologies. The research team expects the development prototype of the vehicle for rice production will be the novelty approach, which provides both opportunities and knowledge to farmers at the same time.

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