Agricultural system

An agricultural system comprising:

• a plough comprising:
• a plough body;
• at least one actuator configured to control operation of the plough;
• a location determining system associated with the plough, wherein the location determining system is configured to provide implement location data that is representative of a current location of the plough;
• and
• a controller that is configured to:
• receive one or more trip locations, wherein the one or more trip locations are one or more plough locations at a time that a stone trip mechanism has tripped in an earlier agricultural operation;
• receive the implement location data;
• and
• process the implement location data and the one or more trip locations in order to provide at least one actuator control signal to the at least one actuator in order to control the operation of the at least one actuator;
• wherein the at least one actuator comprises a stone trip actuator configured to apply a bias force to the plough body such that the plough body is biased toward a working position, the controller is configured to determine a ground engaging tool location based on the implement location data, the ground engaging tool location represents a current location of the plough body, the controller is configured to process the ground engaging tool location and the one or more trip locations in order to provide a stone trip actuator control signal of the at least one actuator control signal to the stone trip actuator to control the operation of the stone trip actuator, and the stone trip actuator control signal is configured to decrease the bias force that is provided by the stone trip actuator based on a predetermined relationship between the ground engaging tool location and the one or more trip locations.

A method of operating an agricultural system, comprising:

• receiving, via a controller, trip data from a trip sensor in response to a stone trip mechanism being tripped, wherein the stone trip mechanism is configured to be tripped when a plough body of a plough encounters a stone or other obstruction;
• and
• storing, via the controller, location data representative of a location of the plough provided by a location determining system associated with the plough as a trip location based on the trip data, wherein the trip location is a location of the plough at a time that the stone trip mechanism is tripped;
• and
• determining, via the controller, if two trip locations are less than a threshold distance apart, and if the two trip locations are less than the threshold distance apart, attributing, via the controller, a same stone identifier to each of the two trip locations.

A method of operating an agricultural system, comprising:

• receiving, via a controller, one or more trip locations, wherein the one or more trip locations are plough locations at a time that a stone trip mechanism has tripped in an earlier agricultural operation;
• receiving, via the controller, implement location data from a location determining system associated with a plough, wherein the implement location data is representative of a current location of the plough;
• and
• providing, via the controller, an at least one actuator control signal to at least one actuator configured to control operation of the plough in order to control the operation of the actuator based on the implement location data and the one or more trip locations;
• wherein the at least one actuator comprises a stone trip actuator configured to apply a bias force to a plough body of the plough such that the plough body is biased toward a working position, the method comprises determining, via the controller, a ground engaging tool location based on the implement location data, the ground engaging tool location represents a current location of the plough body, the method comprises processing, via the controller, the ground engaging tool location and the one or more trip locations in order to provide a stone trip actuator control signal of the at least one actuator control signal to the stone trip actuator to control the operation of the stone trip actuator, and the stone trip actuator control signal is configured to decrease the bias force that is provided by the stone trip actuator based on a predetermined relationship between the ground engaging tool location and the one or more trip locations.