Wireless-Infield-Communication

Wirelessly Networked Coordination of Cooperative Agricultural Machines

Timeframe

Institutions

• TU Dresden

Team @ TU Dresden

• Prof. Dr. Christoph Sommer
• Karl Lautenschlaeger

Funding

• TU Dresden FOSTER – Funds for Student Research

Description

The increasing automation and digitalization of agriculture requires Wireless-Infield-Communication between agricultural machinery, which enables the machines to exchange process data in a field.

The Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation e.V. has defined the five use cases, which require different data rates, latencies and transmission ranges. In this project, we are analysing existing agricultural systems to be able to draw conclusions about data rate, latency, and range requirements of Wireless-Infield-Communication use cases.

Using these requirements, we test and simulate technologies to find efficient means of exchanging information between machines – especially in areas without mobile broadband service.

Selected Publications

• Karl Lautenschlaeger and Christoph Sommer, "Beyond Sensing: Suitability of LoRa for Meshed Automatic Section Control of Agricultural Vehicles," Proceedings of 17th IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2022), Virtual Conference, March 2022. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF and Details...]

Theses

• Wirelessly Networked Coordination of Section Control for Agricultural Machines
• Suitability of Modern Wi-Fi for Wireless-Infield-Communication of Agricultural Machines