Everything about Tractor
Engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery, such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially tillage, and now many more. Agricultural implements may be towed behind or mounted on the tractor, and the tractor may also provide a source of power if the implement is mechanised. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TractorA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Robust Trajectory Tracking Control of an Autonomous Tractor-Trailer Considering Model Parameter Uncertainties and DisturbancesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Runaway TractorThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Experimental demonstration of optical transport, sorting and self-arrangement using a ‘tractor beam’Cited 348 times
- Go sideways: Oliver Super 55A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Ford N-series tractorA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
Noun A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
Noun A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.
Noun Any piece of machinery that pulls something.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Experimental demonstration of optical transport, sorting and self-arrangement using a ‘tractor beam’
James Young Simpson: The Controversy Surrounding the Presentation of His Air Tractor (1848–1849)
Single Gradientless Light Beam Drags Particles as Tractor Beams
Comparative evaluation of performance and emission characteristics of jatropha, karanja and polanga based biodiesel as fuel in a tractor engine
Tractor uses local ancestry to enable the inclusion of admixed individuals in GWAS and to boost power
Optical Conveyors: A Class of Active Tractor Beams
A long-range polarization-controlled optical tractor beam
Gravitational tractor for towing asteroids
🆕 Influential since 2022
Robust Trajectory Tracking Control of an Autonomous Tractor-Trailer Considering Model Parameter Uncertainties and Disturbances
Fuzzy Adaptive Energy Management Strategy for a Hybrid Agricultural Tractor Equipped with HMCVT
Energy Saving Performance of Agricultural Tractor Equipped with Mechanic-Electronic-Hydraulic Powertrain System
Fundamental mode shape estimation and element stiffness evaluation of girder bridges by using passing tractor-trailers
Adaptive Constrained Formation-Tracking Control for a Tractor-Trailer Mobile Robot Team With Multiple Constraints
📚 Books worth reading
The Runaway TractorHeather Amery, Stephen Cartwright · 1989
Katy and the Big SnowVirginia Lee Burton · 1943
Terrible tractorationThomas Green Fessenden · 1803
Tremendous Tractors (Amazing Machines)Tony Mitton · 2003
Tractor in TroubleHeather Amery, Stephen Cartwright · 1990
TractorsCaroline Young, Steve Page · 1992
That's Not My TractorFiona Watt · 2001
Big Rigs on the GoAnne J. Spaight · 2016
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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