Systems and methods for time estimation for machine operations

A computer implemented method comprising:

• identifying an area of a worksite at which an operation is to be performed;
• identifying a historical rate of work metric, indicative of a historical rate at which work is completed;
• obtaining a model;
• identifying a number of work machines that are to perform the operation;
• identifying a crop type corresponding to the operation to be performed;
• and
• identifying an estimated time to complete (ETC) metric indicative of a time it will take to complete the operation based on the area of the worksite at which the operation is to be performed, the historical rate of work metric, the number of work machines that are to perform the operation, the crop type corresponding to the operation, and the model;
• and
• generating a control signal based on the ETC metric.

A worksite operation system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• memory;
• and
• computer executable instructions, stored in the memory, and executable by the one or more processors, the computer executable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to:
• identify for each historical operation, of a plurality of historical operations, a respective historical active area metric, indicative of an active area of a worksite at which the corresponding historical operation was performed, a respective historical operating width metric, corresponding to an operating width of a respective mobile work machine that performed the corresponding historical operation, and a respective historical active duration metric, indicative of an amount of time that the respective mobile agricultural machine that performed the corresponding historical operation was actively performing the corresponding historical operation;
• identify a historical rate of work metric, indicative of a rate at which work is historically completed, based on the respective historical active area metric, the respective historical operating width metric, and the respective historical active duration for each historical operation of the plurality of historical operations identify a worksite area metric indicative of an area of a worksite at which an operation is to be performed;
• identify a width metric corresponding to a width of a mobile agricultural machine that is to perform the operation at the worksite;
• identify a base estimated time to complete (ETC) metric based on the worksite area metric, the width metric, and the historical rate of work metric;
• obtain a machine learned model;
• identify a number of machines metric indicative of a number of machines that are to perform the operation at the worksite;
• identify a crop type metric indicative of a type of crop corresponding to the operation at the worksite;
• identify an ETC metric, indicative of a time it will take to complete the operation at the worksite, based on the base ETC metric, the number of machines metric, the crop type metric, the machine learned model, and the worksite area metric;
• generate a control signal based on the ETC metric.