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US 12,582,035 B2Granted
Systems and methods for predictive power requirements and control
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsScott N. Clark, Nathan R. Vandike
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Abstract
An agricultural harvesting system includes a control system. The control system identifies a predictive value of a power characteristic based on a relationship between the power characteristic and a characteristic. The control system generates a control signal to control a controllable subsystem of a mobile agricultural harvesting machine based on the predictive value of the power characteristic.
Claims20
An agricultural harvesting system comprising:
- a control system that:
- identifies, during a current operation of a mobile harvesting machine at a worksite, a value of a power characteristic of a material transfer subsystem of the mobile harvesting machine based on a relationship between the power characteristic and a crop characteristic, wherein the relationship comprises a predefined model that provides a value of the power characteristic based on an input value of the crop characteristic, the predefined model generated prior to the current operation of the mobile harvesting machine at the worksite, and wherein
- the crop characteristic comprises at least one of cropy type, crop moisture, or crop yield;
- and
- the power characteristic comprises at least one of a required power of the material transfer subsystem or a power usage of the material transfer subsystem;
- and
- generates a control signal to control a controllable subsystem of the mobile harvesting machine based on the identified value of the power characteristic.
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A method of controlling a mobile harvesting machine comprising:
- obtaining a relationship between a power characteristic of a material transfer subsystem of the mobile harvesting machine and a crop characteristic, wherein the relationship comprises a predefined model that provides a value of the power characteristic based on an input value of the crop characteristic, the predefined model generated prior to a current operation of the mobile harvesting machine at a worksite, and wherein
- the crop characteristic comprises at least one of crop type, crop moisture, or crop yield;
- and
- the power characteristic comprises at least one of a required power of the material transfer subsystem or a power usage of the material transfer subsystem;
- identifying, during the current operation of the mobile harvesting machine at the worksite, a power characteristic value based on the relationship;
- and
- controlling the mobile harvesting machine based on the identified power characteristic value.
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A mobile harvesting machine comprising:
- a controllable subsystem;
- and
- a control system that:
- obtains a value of a characteristic corresponding to a geographic location of the mobile harvesting machine at a worksite during a current operation;
- identifies, during the current operation of the mobile harvesting machine at the worksite, a value of a power characteristic cased on a relationship between the power characteristic and the characteristic, wherein the relationship comprises a predefined model that provides a value of the power characteristic based on the obtained value of the characteristic, the predefined model generated prior to a current operation of the mobile harvesting machine at the geographic location at the worksite, and wherein the characteristic is one of:
- (i) an operating parameter of the mobile harvesting machine;
- (ii) a characteristic of the worksite at which the mobile harvesting machine operates;
- (iii) a characteristic of vegetation of the worksite;
- or (iv) a characteristic of the environment of the worksite;
- and generates a control signal to control the controllable subsystem based on the relationship.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.