A soil measure, such as a soil cone index, and a vehicle index indicating the amount of force the vehicle exerts on the ground as it travels over the ground, are obtained and compared to identify a soil damage score. The soil damage score can be mapped over a field and an agricultural vehicle can be controlled based upon the soil damage score. In another example, a detector detects a fill level of a material storage compartment on an agricultural vehicle. The inflation pressure of tires on the agricultural vehicle is controlled based upon the detected fill level.

Described herein are mobile sensing units for capturing raw data corresponding to certain characteristics of plants and their growing environment. Also described are computer devices and related methods for collecting user inputs, generating information relating to the plants and/or growing environment based on the raw data and user inputs, and displaying same.

The invention relates to an agricultural attachment for cultivating row crops, comprising a row-detection device designed to detect, during a cultivation process, locations and/or courses of rows of plants on farmland, and a signal generating device designed to generate steering commands for a drive vehicle to which the attachment is attached, in accordance with the locations and/or courses of the rows of plants detected by the row-detection device.

A travel line creation system for an agricultural machine, includes a position acquirer to acquire position measurement points for the agricultural machine, a display, a first generator to associate the position measurement points with a field displayed by the display and generate creation points on the field by shifting the position measurement points inward in an agricultural field, a second generator to create a travel line including a loop which passes through the creation points and calculate each of virtual lines by connecting together adjacent ones of the creation points, and a setter to extract a pair of virtual lines adjacent to each other and extending in different directions and set, as a work point regarding a breakpoint in work performed by a working device, one of the creation points shared by the extracted pair of virtual lines.

An autonomous vehicle control system includes one or more sensors configured for coupling with an agricultural vehicle, the one or more sensors configured to determine kinematics of the agricultural vehicle relative to a crop row. The system includes a guidance control module configured to coordinate steering of one or more steering mechanisms of the agricultural vehicle. The guidance control module includes a sensor input configured to receive kinematics of the agricultural vehicle, a vehicle kinematics comparator configured to determine one or more error values using the received vehicle kinematics, a crop curvature generator configured to determine crop row curvature using the one or more error values, and a steering interface configured to provide instructions to a vehicle steering controller to guide the agricultural vehicle using the crop row curvature.

An electric powered self-propelled driving machine for working a ground comprising a bearing frame adapted to remain at a given distance from a reference surface when the machine is assembled, kinematic mechanisms coupled to the bearing frame and adapted to be arranged close to said reference surface when the machine is in use, electric motorization means, coupled to the bearing frame and operatively connected to the kinematic mechanisms, adapted to be electrically operated to move the bearing frame, a power supply cable adapted to be electrically connected to the electric motorization means and to be connected to an electric power supply source, a reference rotor around which the power supply cable is wound to form an electric coil of predefined length, coupled to the bearing frame and operatively connected to first rotation means adapted to be operated to unwind/rewind the power supply cable from/onto the reference rotor at least during the advancement of the driving machine (1) to perform a working of a ground, and a distribution arm, operatively connected to the bearing frame and supporting the power supply cable so as to at least limit the interference thereof with the kinematic mechanisms during the advancement of the driving machine on the ground. In an innovative manner, the driving machine provides for the reference rotor, and the electric coil wound thereon, to be arranged in the central part of the bearing frame so that both the front part and the rear part of the bearing frame are frontally free and directly facing the external environment in order to accommodate, removably, both pieces of equipment for working the ground.

An agricultural machine includes a vehicle body, a travel switch operable to issue a command to start autonomous travel of the vehicle body, and an autonomous travel controller to perform autonomous travel of the vehicle body based on a planned travel line when the command is issued. When the command is issued by operating the travel switch, if at least one of a positional deviation between the planned travel line that is selected and the vehicle body and an orientational deviation between the planned travel line and an orientation of the vehicle body is greater than or equal to a corresponding one of respective first thresholds, the autonomous travel controller is configured or programmed to perform line alignment to make the positional deviation and the orientational deviation less than the respective first thresholds.

An agricultural machine includes a vehicle body, an obstacle detector to detect obstacles, an autonomous travel controller to perform autonomous travel of the vehicle body, the autonomous travel controller being configured or programmed to, when performing the autonomous travel, stop the vehicle body based on detection information about an obstacle detected by the obstacle detector, and a mode switch to switch a mode during the autonomous travel in an agricultural field between an effective mode in which the stopping of the vehicle body based on the detection information is allowed and an ineffective mode in which the stopping of the vehicle body based on the detection information is not allowed.

An automatic travel system for a work vehicle has an automatic travel control unit that causes a work vehicle, which is provided with an obstacle detection unit that detects obstacles, to travel automatically. The obstacle detection unit includes imaging units and active sensors. When the obstacle detection unit detects an obstacle based on information from the imaging units, and the separation distance from the obstacle is acquired based on information from the active sensors, the automatic travel control unit executes a first collision avoidance control for avoiding a collision between the work vehicle and the obstacle, on the basis of the separation distance from the obstacle acquired based on the information from the active sensors.

The invention relates to a method for cultivating row crops (200), comprising the following steps: sensor and satellite based recording of locations and/or courses of rows of plants (202a-202l ) while a first cultivation measure is carried out on a row crop (200) by means of an agricultural plant cultivation device (10) and controlling the movement and/or operation of an agricultural plant cultivation device (10) while a second cultivation measure is carried out on the row crop (200) based on the recorded locations and/or courses of the rows of plants (202a-2021).