Determination of the durability of a mobile agriculture platform through finite element analysis

Abstract

The objective of this work was to determine the robustness of a mobile agriculture platform for image capturing in different displacement conditions. Robustness was assessed using the finite element analysis method. The software ANSYS 2022 R2 and SolidWorks 2022 were used to analyze the stress and deformation of the structure in three different scenarios. The results were compared with those of the current literature. The highest stress estimated were 32.774 MPa by ANSYS and 31.550 MPa by SolidWorks. The total estimated deformations were 1.6767 mm by ANSYS and 3.452 mm by SolidWorks. These results indicate that the proposed platform is robust under the studied scenarios.