Sensor equipped agricultural harvester
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorsRobert S. Boyd, Matthew D. Weeks
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Abstract
An agricultural harvester includes a chassis; at least one ground engaging traction member held by the chassis; a cutter held by the chassis; a sensor held by the agricultural harvester so that the sensor is directed in front of the cutter and configured to emit and receive sound and/or radio waves and produce a plurality of output signals; and an electrical processing circuit coupled to the sensor. The electrical processing circuit is configured to produce a field map from the plurality of output signals and adjust an operating parameter of the agricultural harvester based on the field map.
Claims20
An agricultural harvester, comprising:
- a chassis;
- at least one ground engaging traction member held by said chassis;
- a cutter held by said chassis;
- a sensor held by said agricultural harvester so that said sensor is directed in front of said cutter and configured to emit and receive at least one of sound and radio waves and produce a plurality of output signals;
- and
- an electrical processing circuit coupled to said sensor, said electrical processing circuit configured to produce a field map which indicates a bottom of a grain plane from said plurality of output signals and adjust an operating parameter of said agricultural harvester based on said field map.
A method of controlling an agricultural harvester, comprising:
- providing a sensor mounted to said agricultural harvester that is directed toward an area in front of a cutter of said agricultural harvester;
- emitting at least one of radio and sound waves from said sensor;
- receiving said at least one of radio and sound waves;
- producing a field map which indicates a bottom of a grain plane based on said received at least one of radio and sound waves;
- and
- adjusting an operating parameter of said agricultural harvester based on said produced field map.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.