Calibration of tensioning system
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorNathan A. Chaney
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Abstract
A sensor assembly and method is described for calibrating a tensioning system. A first movement of a slack arm of the tensioning system may be identified. It may be determined that the slack arm has been maintained in a first calibration position for a first predetermined time interval, and a first calibration setting for the slack arm may be determined based upon the first calibration position. A second movement of a slack arm of the tensioning system may be identified. It may be determined that the slack arm has been maintained in a second calibration position for a second predetermined time interval, and a second calibration setting for the slack arm my be determined based upon the identified second calibration position.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method of calibrating a tensioning system, the computer-implement method comprising:
- identifying, by the one or more computing devices, a slack arm for calibration;
- identifying, by the one or more computing devices, a first movement of the slack arm;
- determining, by the one or more computing devices, that the slack arm has been maintained in a first calibration position, after the identified first movement, for at least a first predetermined time interval;
- determining, by the one or more computing devices, a first calibration setting for the slack arm based upon, at least in part, the determined first calibration position;
- identifying, by the one or more computing devices, a second movement of the slack arm;
- determining, by the one or more computing devices, that the slack arm has been maintained in a second calibration position, after the identified second movement, for at least a second predetermined time interval;
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- determining, by the one or more computing devices, a second calibration setting for the slack arm based upon, at least in part, the determined second calibration position.
A calibration system for a tensioning system, the calibration system comprising:
- a slack arm included in the tensioning system;
- a sensor device in communication with the slack arm;
- one or more processor devices coupled to one or more memory architectures, the one or more processor devices configured to:
- identify a first movement of the slack arm;
- determine that the slack arm has been maintained in a first calibration position, after the identified first movement, for at least a first predetermined time interval;
- determine a first calibration setting for the slack arm based upon, at least in part, the determined first calibration position;
- identify a second movement of the slack arm;
- determine that the slack arm has been maintained in a second calibration position, after the identified second movement, for at least a second predetermined time interval;
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- determine a second calibration setting for the slack arm based upon, at least in part, the determined second calibration position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.