Header control system to adjust a header of a harvester based on sensor information
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorsJethro Martin, Cory Douglas Hunt
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Abstract
A control system for an agricultural system includes a first controller configured to receive sensor information from a plurality of sensors, in which the sensor information is indicative of a height of a header of the agricultural system, and the first controller is configured to convert the sensor information into position data. The control system further includes a second controller communicatively coupled to the first controller, in which the second controller is configured to receive the position data from the first controller, and the second controller is configured to determine a target position of the header based on the position data.
Claims16
A control system for an agricultural system, comprising:
- a first controller configured to receive sensor information from a plurality of sensors, wherein the sensor information is indicative of a height of a header of the agricultural system, and the first controller is configured to convert the sensor information into position data;
- and
- a second controller communicatively coupled to the first controller, wherein the second controller is configured to receive the position data from the first controller, and the second controller is configured to determine a target position of the header based on the position data;
- wherein the first controller is configured to instruct a first actuator of the header to adjust a first header segment of the header relative to a second header segment of the header, and the second controller is configured to instruct a second actuator of the header to adjust the header relative to a chassis of the agricultural system.
A control system for an agricultural system, comprising:
- a first controller configured to:
- receive sensor information from a plurality of sensors, wherein the sensor information is indicative of a height of a header of the agricultural system, and the header is coupled to a chassis of the agricultural system;
- convert the sensor information into position data;
- and
- set a position of a first header segment of the header relative to a second header segment of the header based on the sensor information;
- and
- a second controller communicatively coupled to the first controller, wherein the second controller is configured to:
- receive the position data from the first controller;
- determine a target position of the header based on the position data;
- set a position of the header relative to the chassis of the agricultural system based on the target position of the header;
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- raise, lower, tilt, maintain, or any combination thereof, a center segment of the header relative to the chassis toward the target position of the header.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.