Route planning system and method for agricultural working machines
AssigneeCLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
InventorsNorbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Andreas Brunnert
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Abstract
In a route planning system and method for agricultural working machines, a defined working width is assigned to the agricultural working machines to generate driving routes in a territory, and dynamic adaptation of the planned driving route is carried out thereby ensuring that the driving route to be covered is flexibly adaptable to changing external conditions such as driving around obstacles, thereby largely relieving the operator of the agricultural working machine of the task of performing laborious steering maneuvers.
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A route planning system for agricultural working machines, comprising
- means for assigning a defined working width to the agricultural working machines to generate driving routes in a territory, and for dynamic adaptation of the planned driving route, including automatically generating a new driving path for an agricultural working machine in response to an operator intervening in a steering procedure or discarding a currently planned driving route for the working machine in the territory,
- wherein the new driving path is automatically worked by the working machine thereby ensuring that the driving route to be covered is flexibly adaptable to changing external conditions including driving obstacles in working machine paths, thereby largely relieving the operator of the agricultural working machine of the task of performing laborious steering maneuvers.
A route planning method for agricultural working machines, comprising the steps of
- assigning a defined working width to the agricultural working machines to generate driving routes in a territory;
- and
- carrying out dynamic adaptation of the planned driving route, including automatically generating a new driving path for an agricultural working machine in response to an operator intervening in a steering procedure or discarding a currently planned driving route for the working machine in for the territory, wherein the new driving path is automatically worked by the working machine thereby ensuring that the driving route to be covered is flexibly adaptable to changing external conditions including driving obstacles in working machine paths, thereby largely relieving the operator of the agricultural working machine of the task of performing laborious steering maneuvers.
A route planning method for agricultural working machines, comprising the steps of
- assigning a defined working width to the agricultural working machine to generate driving paths for working a territory and formulating a strategy;
- ensuring that the driving paths to be covered are flexibly adaptable to changing external conditions including driving obstacles in the driving paths, including automatically generating a new driving path for an agricultural working machine in response to an operator intervening in a steering procedure or discarding a currently planned driving path for the working machine in the territory wherein the new driving path is automatically worked by the working machine,
- carrying out the working strategy to include connecting parallel driving paths (25, 26) and turning curves (37);
- incorporating the number and position of additional agricultural working machines (3, 4) used on the territory (21) to be worked;
- considering the machine kinematics (12), the geometry of the territory (21) to be worked;
- considering harvested crop conditions (13);
- considering customer requests;
- and
- implementing specified working sequences.
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