Tractor/Implement simulation to optimize in-field CO_2 emission and drivability

摘要

Limited budgets and development capacities on the one hand, fierce competition and the pressure to shorten development cycles on the other hand are forcing all manufacturers of agricultural machinery to streamline their development and validation processes and to apply methods and tools, which are powerful enough to cope with those current and future engineering challenges. Increasingly complex driveline and vehicle components and functions and their equally complex dependencies and interactions are contributing to those challenges. Thus the interaction of those components and functions has to be thoroughly analysed and understood in order to create a solid basis of competence and knowledge. The simultaneous integration of an implement into the holistic system approach will pave the way to continuously optimize the all-over performance of the complex system tractor/implement.