Remote Control of an Agricultural Tractor in SAE Field Upset Tests

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• Personal Author:
  Homce, Gerald T. ; Lutz TJ
• Description:
  Research by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Division of Safety Research, Morgantown, West Virginia, is addressing the problem of injuries due to agricultural tractor rollovers and improvements to rollover protective structures (ROPS). As part of this research, the NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory modified a Ford model 4600 agricultural tractor for remote control operation and used this tractor to conduct SAE field upset tests. Modifications to the tractor involved installing a protective framework, electrical actuators for fuel, brake, clutch, steering controls, and a radio link for remote operation. The tractor has been used to complete more than 30 total side and back upset tests, with no failures of the remote control system. These tests have allowed NIOSH researchers to study the performance of currently available ROPS, use this information for the development of improved ROPS designs, and test a NIOSH-developed prototype automatically deploying ROPS. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Agriculture Engineering Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Agricultural-machinery Engineering-controls Injury-prevention Safety-research Tractors
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  0143-3369
• Publisher:
  Inderscience Publishers
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  286-296
• Volume:
  34
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024249
• Citation:
  Int J Vehicle Des 2004 Mar; 34(3):286-296
• Contact Point Address:
  NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
• Email:
  tcl9@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  International Journal of Vehicle Design
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a7db7503ca5030b9e202466d672089e4a14cf3178ede532099913b4cb583922712212e0f4363f6cce187855b323e283232823675302c3fc733801a5b72e78218
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/220759/cdc_220759_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.00 MB ]