State machine for multiple input-multiple output harvester control

An agricultural harvesting machine, comprising:

• a plurality of sensors each generating a corresponding sensor signal indicative of a sensed variable;
• a plurality of controllable subsystems;
• and
• a multiple input-multiple output control system comprising:
• finite state machine logic configured to identify an operational state of the agricultural harvesting machine based on the sensed variables indicated by the sensor signals, the operational state being one of a plurality of predefined operational states on a hierarchy of predefined operational states including a lower predefined operational state, a higher predefined operational state and a plurality of intermediate predefined operational states hierarchically arranged on the hierarchy of predefined operational states between the lower predefined operational state and the higher predefined operational state;
• and
• control signal generator logic configured to identify a solution corresponding to the identified operational state, the solution being one of a plurality of hierarchically arranged solutions corresponding to the identified operational state and being indicative of a plurality of control signals that modify control of at least one of the plurality of controllable subsystems to transition the operational state of the agricultural harvesting machine from the identified operational state to a different predefined operational state higher in the hierarchy of predefined operational states than the identified operational state, the control signal generator logic generating the plurality of control signals.