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US 12,765,455 B2Granted
Systems and methods for predictive harvesting logistics
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsNathan R. Vandike, Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla, Corwin M. Puryk, Federico Pardina-Malbran
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Abstract
One or more maps are obtained by an agricultural system. The one or more maps map characteristic values at different geographic locations in a worksite. The agricultural system identifies one or more operational constraints. The agricultural system generates a control output to control operation of a mobile machine operating in an agricultural harvesting operation based on the one or more operational constraints.
Claims17
An agricultural harvesting system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- memory storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to:
- obtain a soil property map that maps values of a soil property to different locations in a field;
- identify a compaction-based operational constraint based on the soil property map;
- and
- control an operation of a mobile machine operating in an agricultural harvesting operation based on the compaction-based operational constraint.
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A method of controlling an agricultural harvesting operation, the method comprising:
- obtaining one or more maps of a field, each of the one or more maps mapping a value of a respective characteristic to different geographic locations in the field;
- identifying an operational constraint, wherein identifying the operational constraint comprises one of:
- identifying a compaction-based operational constraint;
- identifying a field-based operational constraint, wherein the field-based operational constraint is identified based, at least, on a topographic map, of the one or more maps of the field, that maps values of topographic characteristics to different geographic locations in the field;
- or
- identifying an operator-based operational constraint, wherein the operator-based operational constraint is identified based on at least one of:
- operator fatigue, operator skill, or operator experience;
- and
- controlling a location of a material transfer operation, that transfers harvested agricultural material from a first mobile machine to a second mobile machine, based on the operational constraint.
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A computing system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- memory storing computer executable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to:
- obtain a topographic map that maps values of topographic characteristics to different locations in a field;
- identify an operator-based operational constraint at a location in the field based on the topographic map, wherein the operator-based operational constraint is identified based on at least one of:
- operator fatigue, operator skill, or operator experience;
- and
- control operation of a mobile machine operating in a harvesting operation comprising one or more of the following:
- a commanded route control output that controls a travel path of a mobile material receiving machine to avoid the location in the field to which the operator-based operational constraint corresponds;
- a fill strategy control output that controls a material transfer subsystem, of an agricultural harvester to limit an amount of material transferred to the mobile material receiving machine;
- or
- a commanded travel speed control output that limits a travel speed of the mobile material receiving machine at the location in the field to which the operator-based operational constraint corresponds.
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A computing system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- memory storing computer executable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to:
- obtain one or more maps of a field, each map, of the one or more maps, mapping a value of a respective characteristic to different locations in the field, wherein the one or more maps include one or more of:
- a topographic map that maps values of topographic characteristics to different locations in the field;
- a field feature map that maps field feature values to different locations in the field;
- or
- an optical map that maps optical characteristic values to different locations in the field;
- identify a first operational constraint comprising at least one of:
- a compaction-based operational constraint;
- or
- an operator-based operational constraint, wherein the operator-based operational constraint is identified based on at least one of:
- operator fatigue, operator skill, or operator experience;
- identify, as a second operational constraint, a field-based operational constraint at a location in the field based on the one or more of the topographic map, the field feature map, or the optical map;
- and
- control operation of a mobile machine operating in a harvesting operation comprising one or more of the following:
- a commanded route control output that controls a travel path of a mobile material receiving machine to avoid the location in the field to which the field-based operational constraint corresponds;
- a fill strategy control output that controls a material transfer subsystem, of an agricultural harvester to limit an amount of material transferred to the mobile material receiving machine;
- or
- a commanded travel speed control output that limits a travel speed of the mobile material receiving machine at the location in the field to which the field-based operational constraint corresponds.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.