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US 11,885,873 B2Granted
Agricultural system
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorsLuca Ferrari, John H. Posselius
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Abstract
A system including a beamforming-sensor configured to acquire sensor-data representative of a swath in an agricultural field; and a controller configured to determine swath-property-data based on the sensor-data.
Claims14
A system comprising:
- a beamforming-sensor configured to acquire sensor-data representative of a swath in an agricultural field;
- and
- a controller configured to determine foreign-object-indicator-data based on the sensor-data when the sensor-data is not correlated with swath-profile-data or ground-profile-data, the foreign object positioned within the swath or the ground below the swath,
- wherein the beamforming-sensor is configured to acquire sensor-data that is representative of the swath in the agricultural field in a vicinity of an agricultural vehicle,
- wherein the controller is further configured to determine vehicle-control-instructions for the agricultural vehicle, based on the swath-property-data, the swath-property-data including crop- area-data or crop-volume-data,
- wherein the vehicle-control-instructions comprise:
- vehicle-steering-instructions for automatically controlling a direction of travel of the agricultural vehicle;
- and
- vehicle-speed-instructions for automatically stopping the agricultural vehicle based on a detection of a foreign object within the foreign-object-indicator-data.
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A system comprising:
- a beamforming-sensor configured to acquire sensor-data representative of a swath in an agricultural field, the beamforming-sensor configured to acquire sensor-data that is representative of the swath in the agricultural field in a vicinity of an agricultural vehicle;
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- a controller operably coupled with the beamforming-sensor, the controller configured to:
- determine swath-property-data based on the sensor-data, the swath-property-data including foreign-object-indicator-data;
- determine a positional relationship of a header of an agricultural machine relative to the swath by utilizing, a relationship between a field of view of the beamforming- sensor and a defined position of the header:
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- provide vehicle-control-instructions that cause the steering of an agricultural machine to be adjusted with reference to the swath to reduce the offset in the positional relationship.
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A system comprising:
- a beamforming-sensor configured to acquire sensor-data representative of a swath in an agricultural field;
- and
- a controller operably coupled with the beamforming-sensor, the controller configured to:
- receive swath-property-data based on the sensor-data, the swath-property-data including swath-moisture-data that is representative of a moisture of the swath;
- determine a moisture of the swath-moisture-data;
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- perform one or more calibration operations based on the moisture of the swath-moisture-data, wherein the moisture affects a phase or an amplitude of the swath-moisture-data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.