Electric drives for ORTO - Orchard Rapid Transit Operation

This thesis is focused on a novel agricultural technique for orchard cultivations that allows to perform automatic and fossil fuel free cultivation operations. More specifically, the aim of this thesis work is to study and implement the electric traction system and control the vehicle that performs the automatic operations. Starting from the analysis of each single component of the traction system, the control of the mobile platform will be then performed. After a first control of the mobile platform in no load conditions, the implementation of the dynamic model will be performed in the Simulink environment. Different simulations representing typical operational missions will be performed to have a real idea concerning the behaviour of the traction system and the energy consumption of this solution. Finally, the obtained results will be analysed for the future implementation of the mobile platform on the field.