Using non-real-time computers for agricultural guidance systems

A method for steering a vehicle, comprising:

• using a first program to:
• generate, in a non-real-time domain, a batch of a plurality of future geo-location waypoints for a selected vehicle path;
• and
• transmit the waypoints over a communication channel to an input buffer that is configured to accumulate the future geo-location waypoints;
• and
• using a second program to consume the accumulated geo-location waypoints from the input buffer and generate, at a periodic rate in a real time domain, steering commands for steering the vehicle based, at least in part, on the accumulated geo-location waypoints.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media (NTCRM) comprising instructions that, upon execution of the instructions by one or more processors of one or more electronic devices, are to cause the one or more processors to:

• generate, by a first program in a non-real-time domain, a batch of a plurality of future geo-location waypoints for a selected vehicle path;
• transmit, by the first program, at least two or more of the waypoints over a communication channel to an asynchronous buffer that is configured to accumulate the future geo-location waypoints;
• and
• use a second program to consume the accumulated geo-location waypoints from the asynchronous buffer and generate, at a periodic rate in a real time domain, steering commands for steering the vehicle based, at least in part, on the accumulated geo-location waypoints.