A system and method of controlling agriculture equipment which combines geographical coordinates, machine settings, machine position, path plans, user input, and equipment parameters to generate executable commands based of a variety of different in-field agricultural operation objectives for a vehicle equipped with an automatic or electronically controlled locomotion systems capable of reading and executing the commands.

A system having a guidance module to obtain a travel path from an agricultural machine to a target. The guidance module including a perception module to determine target line that extends from the machine to the target, and obstacle detection module to detect an obstacle in the first target line, the obstacle having an obstacle boundary that intersects the target line. The guidance module including a mitigation module to obtain a mitigation path around the obstacle based on the target line and the obstacle boundary, the mitigation path including a mitigation segment. The mitigation module including an entrance module configured to determine a starting position of the mitigation path based on a second target line and an exit module configured to determine the ending position of the mitigation path based on a third target line. The guidance module including convergence module to combine the mitigation path with the travel path.

A method for identifying a trajectory between rows of a plantation using a radar interfaced with a processing means of an agricultural vehicle includes acquisition of an approximate distance between two consecutive rows of the plantation, acquisition of signals by the radar, processing of the signals to obtain a two-dimensional map of points corresponding to reflections picked up by the radar. The method further includes first linear interpolation to obtain a first interpolating line on the points of greatest intensity, second windowing of an elongated area of the two-dimensional map having an axis of development approximately parallel to the first interpolating line and at the approximate distance from the first interpolating line, second linear interpolation of a second interpolating line on points of greater intensity in the windowed area, and calculation of a trajectory parallel and intermediate between the first and second interpolating line.

In this obstacle detection system, if an obstacle has been detected by a front obstacle sensor or a rear obstacle sensor which has an obstacle detection range corresponding to the travel direction of the work vehicle, then a control unit displays the detected position of the obstacle on a display unit and performs collision avoidance control corresponding to the detection position of the obstacle; further, if an obstacle has been detected by a front obstacle sensor or a rear obstacle sensor which has an obstacle detection range not corresponding to the travel direction of the work vehicle, then the control unit displays the detected position of the obstacle on the display unit without performing collision avoidance control corresponding to the detection position of the obstacle.

Methods and systems for guiding movement of an agricultural system within a field including sensor data indicative of an environment of the agricultural system used to identify a material profile along which the agricultural system shall be guided, one or more properties of the material profile determined from the sensor data and in particular properties indicative of an irregularity in the material profile, determination of a correcting path segment for guiding movement of the agricultural system with respect to the material profile irregularity, and movement of the agricultural system controlled along the determined correcting path segment.

A combine harvester is a work vehicle capable of switching between a manual travel mode to travel based on operation of an operation tool including a steering wheel which is a turning operation tool and an autonomous traveling mode to travel based on a predetermined travel route, which includes a controller to function as an autonomous travel controller to control travel of the combine harvester through the autonomous travel mode based on the travel route. The combine harvester is switched from the autonomous travel mode to the manual travel mode without stopping the vehicle when the steering wheel is operated during the autonomous travel mode.

Technologies for guiding an agricultural vehicle through crop rows using a camera and signal processing to locate the crop row or centers of the crop row. The signal processing uses a filter to filter data from images captured by the camera and locates the row or the centers based on the filtered data. The filter is generated based on a signal processing transform and an initial image of the crop row captured by the camera. The filter is applied to subsequent images of the crop row captured by the camera. In some embodiments, the camera includes one lens. For example, monocular computer vision is used in some embodiments. Also, in some embodiments, a central processing unit generates the filter based on the transform and the initial image of the crop row and applies the generated filter to the subsequent images of the row.

A route determination method, a route determination system, and a route determination program are provided for determining a target route where a work vehicle can work while performing automatic traveling without damaging the topsoil of the work site.

A route generation method is a method for generating a target route for a work vehicle autonomously traveling in a travel area, and executes acquiring an inclination angle of the travel area, setting a travel speed of the work vehicle for the travel area on a basis of the inclination angle of the travel area, and generating the target route including speed information of the travel speed set for the travel area.

Disclosed herein is an apparatus for facilitating managing cultivation of crops based on monitoring the crops. Further, the apparatus comprises an apparatus body, cameras, light sensors, a processing unit, and a communication interface. Further, the cameras generate a measurement of a crop and a field portion. Further, the light sensors generate an environment measurement of an environment of the apparatus. Further, the processing unit analyzes the environment measurement, determines a factor affecting the measurement, and generates a calibrating factor for the cameras. Further, the calibrating factor facilitates compensating the affecting of the factor in the measurement. Further, the cameras calibrate a camera parameter of the cameras based on the calibrating factor to generate the measurement. Further, the processing unit analyzes the measurement and generates a status of the crop. Further, the communication interface transmits the status to a device.