IC-Weeder AI

• The cameras are covered to avoid shades through natural sunlight. Instead, the field of vision is illuminated with LED-lights, for high quality camera images.
• The camera makes high resolution pictures in green hues or the RGB-colour spectrum
• Every camera covers a field of vision of 75 cm.
• The images are transferred to the job computer and visualized on the terminal.

• The touch screen terminal processes the camera images into precise steering signals.
• The actual plant position is calculated from the camera image, the plant size and the expected plant position.

This steering signal is transmitted to the shifting frame to follow the rows correctly and to the active hoeing knives that remove the weeds within the row. The terminal is used to control the job computer. Operating the IC-Weeder via the terminal is very simple and intuitive, additional help is accessible via remote maintenance.

The side shift is based on a parallel steering frame, which transfers the steering signal to correctly follow the rows side-warts. The machine position can be moved hydraulically 15 cm to the left or the right.

The two support-wheels correct the height of the machine hydraulically, and provide the speed-signal to the job computer. They also ensure the side warts stability of the machine.

For flexible row widths: The panels are clamped to an 80 x 80 mm profile frame via robust connections and can be easily adapted to different row widths.

• Either three or four toolholders are available on the parallelogram-element for the inter- and the intra-row tools.
• In the front, a rigid or a vibro holder with an A-blade hoes inter-row, so between the crop rows.
• Behind that, two intra-row sickle-shaped knifes are mounted, which remove weeds between the plants in one row.
• In the last position, an air blast cleans the crop from dust and soil, called CropClean. Optional, the weight-pressure of the element to the soil can be decreased by pneumatic cylinders.

Cleans the crop of dust and soil by means of a blast of air behind the element.

Optionally, the weight of the element on the floor can be reduced by a pneumatic cylinder.

Precise blade that cuts the weeds superficially. Swivels into the row on both sides. Its curved shape allows it to work as close as possible to the plant. When closed, two knives overlap each other so that all weeds are removed.

The harrow is mounted behind the machine and removes the soil from the roots of the weeds that have already been chopped off. This reduces the risk of re-growth.