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US 2014/0236431 A1Published application
Soil compaction reduction system and method
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsLarry L. Hendrickson, Noel W. Anderson
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Abstract
A soil compaction reduction system and method determine a path through the field for a mobile machine or control a soil compaction characteristic of the mobile machine based upon a varying soil compaction characteristic of the mobile machine as the mobile machine traverses the field and based upon a soil compaction constraint.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- determining a path for a mobile machine through a field based upon a varying soil compaction characteristic of the mobile machine as the mobile machine traverses the field based upon a soil compaction constraint;
- and
- controlling the varying compaction characteristic of the mobile machine as the mobile machine traverses the field along the determined path based upon the soil compaction constraint.
A soil compaction reduction system comprising:
- a non-transient computer-readable medium containing computer readable code to direct one or more processing units to:
- determine a path for a mobile machine through a field based upon a varying soil compaction characteristic of the mobile machine as the mobile machine traverses the field based upon a soil compaction constraint;
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- direct one or more processing units to vary compaction characteristic of the mobile machine as a mobile machine traverses the field along the determined path based upon the compaction constraint.
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A method comprising:
- partitioning the field into the regions based upon soil compaction characteristics;
- assigning soil compaction constraints to different regions of the field based upon soil compaction characteristics based at least in part upon prior harvest data;
- and
- determining a path for a mobile machine through the field based upon a varying soil compaction characteristic of the mobile machine as the mobile machine traverses the field based upon the soil compaction constraints. The method of claim 20 further comprising controlling a varying soil compaction characteristic of a mobile machine based upon a path of the mobile machine through the field and the soil compaction constraint.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.