Self-propelled agricultural work machine with image-based control

A method for controlling a self-propelled agricultural work machine comprising:

• operating the self-propelled agricultural work machine, the self-propelled agricultural work machine comprising:
• one or more working units configured to perform one or more of collecting, processing and forwarding harvested material of a crop of an agricultural field;
• at least one drive motor configured to drive the one or more working units and to propel the self-propelled agricultural working machine at a travel speed along the agricultural field;
• at least one camera device configured to capture one or more images of the crop of the agricultural field in an environment of the self-propelled agricultural work machine;
• automatically determining a proportion of the harvested material present in the crop using the one or more images of the camera device;
• and
• automatically adjusting, based on the proportion of the harvested material present in the crop, one or both of:
• at least one working unit of the one or more working units;
• or the travel speed of the self-propelled agricultural work machine.