Agricultural machine with an NIR sensor and data processing system
AssigneeCLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
InventorsBjörn Stremlau, Carsten Grove, Michael Roggenland, Frank Claussen, Maximilian von Nordheim, Jeremias Hagel, Jörg Wesselmann
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Abstract
An agricultural machine is disclosed that includes an NIR sensor configured to detect NIR spectra of plant material and output them as raw data, an evaluation unit configured to derive at least one parameter of the plant material in real time from the raw data, and an interface for the data traffic with at least one data processing unit outside of or external to the agricultural machine that is configured to transmit the raw data to the data processing unit.
Claims18
An agricultural machine comprising:
- a near-infrared (NIR) sensor configured to detect one or more NIR spectra of plant material and output the detected one or more NIR spectra as raw data;
- an evaluation unit configured to receive the raw data and to derive at least one parameter of the plant material in real time from the raw data;
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- an interface for communication with at least one data processing unit external to the agricultural machine, wherein the interface is configured to transmit the raw data to the at least one data processing unit.
A data processing system comprising:
- at least one data processing unit;
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- at least one agricultural machine external to the at least one data processing unit, the at least one agricultural machine comprising:
- an NIR sensor configured to detect one or more NIR spectra of plant material and output the detected one or more NIR spectra as raw data;
- an evaluation unit configured to receive the raw data and to derive, using at least one calibration model, at least one parameter of the plant material in real time from the raw data;
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- an interface for communication with the at least one data processing unit external to the agricultural machine, wherein the interface is configured to transmit the raw data to the at least one data processing unit;
- wherein data processing unit is configured to generate the at least one calibration model configured to derive the at least one parameter of the plant material by using the raw data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.