Machine monitoring
AssigneeCNH Industrial Belgium N.V.
InventorsBart M.A. Missotten, Dré W.J. Jongmans, Lode A. Demonie, Marcel Verhoeven
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Abstract
A mobile agricultural machine includes a sensor capable of sensing a gaseous composition of an air flow impinging the sensor; an air filtering unit configured to remove particulate matter from the air flow; and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive a sensing signal from the sensor, wherein the sensing signal is representative of the gaseous composition; and output an indication signal if the gaseous composition is indicative of an anomaly associated with an operation of the mobile agricultural machine.
Claims15
A mobile agricultural machine comprising:
- a sensor capable of sensing a gaseous composition of an air flow impinging the sensor;
- an air filtering unit configured to remove particulate matter from the air flow;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- (i) receive a sensing signal from the sensor, wherein the sensing signal is representative of the gaseous composition generated at least in part by the mobile agricultural machine;
- (ii) compare the sensing signal to a reference odour library;
- (iii) identify an anomaly associated with an operation of the mobile agricultural machine when the sensing signal matches an anomaly reference signal of the reference odour library;
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- (iv) output an indication signal in response to identification of the anomaly.
A method of monitoring a mobile agricultural machine, said method comprising:
- receiving a sensing signal from a sensor of the mobile agricultural machine, wherein the sensing signal is representative of a gaseous composition impinging on the sensor, wherein the gaseous composition is generated at least in part by the mobile agricultural machine;
- comparing the sensing signal to a reference odour library:
- identifying an anomaly associated with an operation of the mobile agricultural machine when the sensing signal matches an anomaly reference signal of the reference odour library;
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- outputting an indication signal in response to identification of the anomaly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.