Electronic Control of Motor Axles of Forestry Trailers
Marco Manzone
; Università degli studi di Torino – DISAFA Via Leonardo da Vinci, 44 Grugliasco (TO), ITALY
Paolo Balsari
; Università degli studi di Torino – DISAFA Via Leonardo da Vinci, 44 Grugliasco (TO), ITALY
APA 6th Edition Manzone, M. & Balsari, P. (2015). Electronic Control of Motor Axles of Forestry Trailers. Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 36 (1), 131-136. Retrieved from https://hrcak.srce.hr/136147
MLA 8th Edition Manzone, Marco and Paolo Balsari. "Electronic Control of Motor Axles of Forestry Trailers." Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, vol. 36, no. 1, 2015, pp. 131-136. https://hrcak.srce.hr/136147. Accessed 7 Mar. 2021.
Chicago 17th Edition Manzone, Marco and Paolo Balsari. "Electronic Control of Motor Axles of Forestry Trailers." Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering 36, no. 1 (2015): 131-136. https://hrcak.srce.hr/136147
Harvard Manzone, M., and Balsari, P. (2015). 'Electronic Control of Motor Axles of Forestry Trailers', Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 36(1), pp. 131-136. Available at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/136147 (Accessed 07 March 2021)
Vancouver Manzone M, Balsari P. Electronic Control of Motor Axles of Forestry Trailers. Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering [Internet]. 2015 [cited 2021 March 07];36(1):131-136. Available from: https://hrcak.srce.hr/136147
IEEE M. Manzone and P. Balsari, "Electronic Control of Motor Axles of Forestry Trailers", Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, vol.36, no. 1, pp. 131-136, 2015. [Online]. Available: https://hrcak.srce.hr/136147. [Accessed: 07 March 2021]
Abstracts Timber transport in the forest is a very complex operation, and expensive from an energy point of view. Furthermore, in some cases, this operation can be very difficult and dangerous in unfavorable conditions of the road surface, which mainly occur in winter (frozen ground) and in spring (muddy ground). The goal of this study was to develop an innovative transmission hydraulic control system for trailer motor axle that would allow correlating the forward speed of the trailer with that of the tractor, which is not necessarily always the same. In detail, the innovative motor axle of the trailer is driven by a hydraulic motor through a pump controlled electronically. A specific software is able to correlate the forward speed of the trailer with the speed of the tractor in any operating situation, thanks to the information given by a potentiometer screwed behind to the trailer component coupled to the tractor. The innovative system developed to control the trailer motor axle provides the possibility to use the trailer with any type of tractor, not requiring long and complex adjustment of tractor and trailer, since it is completely independent from the type of the tractor used.