What it does - Settings
The auto sequence is a software feature which can help the robot when operating in difficult conditions by stopping the robot, raising the hitch and swinging the weeding arm against the seeding unit for a time between 4-10 seconds.
The auto sequence is turned ON or OFF from a switch in the bottom-left side of page 4.1.2 (image below).
NOTE 🙂👇
If the auto sequence is set to OFF, then the robot will stop and send a message every time an alarm appears
If the auto sequence is set to ON, then the robot will perform an auto sequence up to a certain amount of times, before stopping and sending an alarm message. This is true until the robot turns in the headland to operate in the following pass, as at that time the alarm-counter is automatically reset.
SETTINGS
Right below the auto sequence switch, you can access the settings of this feature located in page 4.1.2.2.
- NO. OF ERROR RELATED AUTO SEQUENCES BEFORE STOP: in this case you can define how many times the robot can use an auto sequence in the attempt to resolve the cause of the error, BEFORE a specific pass is completed.
Example: in the image above, the robot would stop and send an alert message at the 4th time a specific error appears in the same pass - TIMED AUTO SEQUENCE: enabling this features allows the robot to run autonomously an auto sequence on a time basis. This feature is intended to prevent certain errors from appearing. the number of auto-sequences above which the robot stops and notify an alarm, if an error is still present (e.g. seeding % error in a specific row), is defined by the user in the first row of page 4.1.2.2
- TIME BETWEEN AUTO SEQUENCES [min.] 1-100: define the interval of time between two timed auto sequences
- ACTIVATION TIME [sec.] 4-10: define how many seconds both a timed auto sequence and an error-based auto sequence would run
Collecting so many weeds may be a good reason to activate a timed auto sequence
TIPS AND TRICKS 😉👍
The timed auto sequence can prevent errors to appear in unfavorable operative conditions. For example:
- Seed getting stuck in the discs: by having the weeding arm to hit the seeding unit, would help to get it unstuck in most of the cases
- Seeding in sticky soil or with lots of crop residues in the field: the auto sequence would help to remove some of the sticky soil and crop residues, especially close to the seed valve housing, were if the soil packs it could prevent the seed from falling through.
- Weeding tall plants or operating with high weed coverage: by raising the hitch and having the weeding arm to move in an out a few seconds could help to untangle some of the weeds around the weeding assembly
Depending on how difficult the situation in the field is, you can decide to let the timed auto sequence to activate more or less often, as well as to last for a longer or shorter period of time.