US 2025/0138508 A1Published application

Systems and methods for time estimation for machine full

AssigneeDeere & Company

InventorsRyan KIRK, Mayur DEO, Brian RODRIGUEZ

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Abstract

A computer implemented method includes identifying an estimated time until full (ETF) metric indicative of an estimated time it will take until a tank of an agricultural harvester is full, at least to a threshold level, based at least on a yield flow rate metric, a tank capacity metric, a tank fill level metric, a crop moisture metric, an error correction metric, a crop type metric, a temperature metric, a humidity metric, one or more historical yield flow rate metrics and a model; and generating one or more control signals based on the ETF metric. The computer implemented method can further include identifying an estimated full location (EFL) metric, indicative of an estimated location at the worksite at which the tank of the agricultural harvester will be full, at least to the threshold level, based at least on a path metric, a travel speed metric, and the ETF metric.

Claims21

Dependent claims

An agricultural 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 a yield flow rate metric indicative of a rate at which an agricultural harvester harvests crop at a worksite;
identify a tank capacity metric, the tank capacity metric indicative of an amount of capacity, at least to a threshold level, of a tank of the agricultural harvester;
identify a tank fill level metric indicative of a fill level of the tank of the agricultural harvester;
identify a crop moisture metric indicative of moisture of crop at the worksite;
identify an error correction metric indictive of an error in a fill level calculation;
identify a crop type metric indicative of a crop type of crop at the worksite;
identify a temperature metric indicative of an ambient temperature at the worksite;
identify a humidity metric indicative of an ambient humidity at the worksite;
identify an estimated time until full (ETF) metric indicative of an estimated time it will take until the tank of the agricultural harvester is full, at least to the threshold level, based on the yield flow rate metric, the tank capacity metric, the tank fill level metric, the crop moisture metric, the error correction metric, the crop type metric, the temperature metric, the humidity metric, and a model;
and
generate one or more control signals based on the ETF metric.

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A computer implement method comprising:

identifying a yield flow rate metric indicative of a rate at which an agricultural harvester harvests crop at a worksite;
identifying a tank capacity metric, the tank capacity metric indicative of an amount of capacity, at least to a threshold level, of a tank of the agricultural harvester;
identifying a tank fill level metric indicative of a fill level of the tank of the agricultural harvester;
identifying a crop moisture metric indicative of moisture of crop at the worksite;
identifying an error correction metric indictive of an error in a fill level calculation;
identifying a crop type metric indicative of a crop type of crop at the worksite;
identifying a temperature metric indicative of an ambient temperature at the worksite;
identifying a humidity metric indicative of an ambient humidity at the worksite;
identifying an estimated time until full (ETF) metric indicative of an estimated time it will take until the tank of the agricultural harvester is full, at least to the threshold level, based on the yield flow rate metric, the tank capacity metric, the tank fill level metric, the crop moisture metric, the error correction metric, the crop type metric, the temperature metric, the humidity metric, and a model;
and
generating one or more control signals based on the ETF metric.

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An agricultural 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 an operation yield metric indicative of a total amount of crop harvested up to a given time in an operation;
identify an operation duration metric indicative of a duration of the operation up to the given time;
identify an operation yield flow rate metric indicative of rate at which an agricultural harvester harvests in the operation based on the operation yield metric and the operation duration metric;
identify a sub-operation yield metric indicative of a total amount of crop harvested during a sub-operation up to the given time;
identify a sub-operation duration metric indicative of a duration of a sub-operation up to the given time;
identify a sub-operation yield flow rate metric indicative of a rate at which the agricultural harvester harvests in the sub-operation based on the sub-operation yield metric and the sub-operation duration metric;
identify an upcoming yield metric indicative of an estimated total amount of crop in an upcoming area of a worksite;
identify an upcoming duration metric indicative of an estimated time for the agricultural harvester to harvest the upcoming area of the worksite;
identify an upcoming yield flow rate metric indicative of an estimated rate at which the agricultural harvester will harvest crop in the upcoming area of the worksite;
identify a yield flow rate metric indicative of a rate at which an agricultural harvester harvests crop at the worksite based on the operation yield flow rate metric, the sub-operation yield flow rate metric, and the upcoming yield flow rate metric;
identify a tank capacity metric, the tank capacity metric indicative of an amount of capacity of a tank of the agricultural harvester at least to a threshold level of fill of the tank of the agricultural harvester;
identify a tank fill level metric indicative of a fill level of the tank of the agricultural harvester;
identify a base estimated time until full (ETF) based on the yield flow rate metric, the tank capacity metric, and the tank fill level metric, the base ETF metric indicative of a first estimated time it will take until the tank of the agricultural harvester is full, at least to the threshold level;
identify a crop moisture metric indicative of an average moisture of crop at the worksite during the sub-operation;
identify an error correction metric indictive of an error in a fill level calculation for a previous sub-operation;
identify a crop type metric indicative of a crop type of crop at the worksite;
identify a temperature metric indicative of an average ambient temperature at the worksite during the sub-operation;
identify a humidity metric indicative of an average ambient humidity at the worksite during the sub-operation;
identify an estimated time until full (ETF) metric based on the base ETF metric, the yield flow rate metric, the tank capacity metric, the tank fill level metric, the crop moisture metric, the error correction metric, the crop type metric, the temperature metric, the humidity metric, and a model, the ETF metric indicative of a second estimated time it will take until the tank of the agricultural harvester is full, at least to the threshold level;
and
generate a control signal based on the ETF metric.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.