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OBTAINING AND AUGMENTING AGRICULTURAL DATA AND GENERATING AN AUGMENTED DISPLAY

A geographic position of an agricultural machine is captured. Agricultural data is received that corresponds to a geographic position. Georeferenced visual indicia are displayed that are indicative of the received agricultural data.

Machine control system providing actionable management information and insight using agricultural telematics

A machine control system includes an agricultural work machine having an ECU coupled via a system bus to control engine functions, a GPS receiver, data collector, and specialized guidance system including a stored program. The data collector captures agricultural geospatial data including location data for the work machine and data from the ECU, and executes the stored program to: (a) capture geometries of the farm; (b) capture agricultural geospatial data; (c) automatically classify the agricultural geospatial data using the geometries of the farm, into activity/event categories including operational, travel, and ancillary events; (d) aggregate the classified data to create geospatial data events; (e) match the geospatial data events to a model to generate matched events; (f) use the matched events to generate actionable information for the working machine in real time or near real-time; and (g) send operational directives to the agricultural work machine based on the actionable information.

Agricultural mowing system with overlap control

An agricultural mowing system includes: a driving vehicle having a steerable axle and a pivotable tongue and defining a travel axis; a first mower coupled to the driving vehicle; a second mower coupled to the tongue; a tongue actuator configured to pivot the tongue; a tongue angle sensor configured to output signals corresponding to a tongue angle of the tongue; and a controller operatively coupled to the tongue actuator and the tongue angle sensor. The controller is configured to: determine a lateral overlap or underlap of the mowers exceeds a threshold value based at least partially on the tongue angle and a steering angle of the steerable axle; determine a correction angle needed for the tongue to pivot such that the lateral overlap or underlap no longer exceeds the threshold value; and output a correction signal to the tongue actuator to pivot the tongue by the correction angle.

DETECTING UNTRAVERSABLE SOIL FOR FARMING MACHINE

A farming machine moves through a field and performs one or more farming actions (e.g., treating one or more plants) in the field. Portions of the field may include moisture, such as puddles or mud patches. A control system associated with the farming machine may include a traversability model and/or a moisture model to help the farming machine operate in the field with the moisture. In particular, the control system may employ the traversability model to reduce the likelihood of the farming machine attempting to traverse an untraversable portion of the field, and the control system may employ the moisture model to reduce the likelihood of the farming machine performing an action that will damage a portion of the field.

Work vehicle

A work vehicle includes: an electronic control system for automatic driving; and a cabin with which a boarding space is formed. The electronic control system includes an antenna unit for satellite navigation, and the antenna unit is attached to a central area of a roof of the cabin in a left-right direction. An upper surface of an area of the roof around the antenna unit is formed so as to be an inclined surface that is inclined in a front-rear direction. Left and right end portions of the roof are provided with left and right bulging edge portions that bulge upward from the left and right end portions and have a length that spans between front and rear ends of the roof, and water drain grooves that guide water on the roof toward the left and right bulging edge portions such that water detours the antenna unit.

ELECTRIFIED TRACTOR
20230040482 · 2023-02-09 ·

An electrified tractor includes a vehicle body, a working machine, an electric motor, a battery, an inverter that controls input-output electric power of the battery. The electrified tractor includes a control device that controls the inverter. The control device executes a restriction process, a charging rate calculation process and a relaxation process. In the restriction process, the control device controls the inverter such that the input and output of the battery is restricted within a prescribed electric power range, when a state of the battery satisfies a restriction condition. In the charging rate calculation process, the control device calculates a charging rate of the battery when it is assumed that a work is finished in a farming field, as an estimated charging rate. In the relaxation process, the control device expands the prescribed electric power range, when the estimated charging rate is higher than a first prescribed charging rate.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A WORK VEHICLE
20230039718 · 2023-02-09 ·

An agricultural system includes a target vehicle configured to harvest crops and a work vehicle. The work vehicle includes a controller. The controller includes a memory and a processor, and the controller is configured to receive or determine a plurality of vehicle paths as well as a location of the target vehicle. The controller is also configured to identify an active path of the plurality of vehicle paths based on the location of the target vehicle. The target path is a path traversed by the target vehicle.

ROUTE SEARCH METHOD, ROUTE SEARCH SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND WORK VEHICLE

A route search system for a work vehicle includes a receiver, a processor, and a controller. The receiver is to obtain a reference position of the work vehicle. The processor is to define, as a search area, an area around a vehicle reference point in a plan view. The vehicle reference point indicates the reference position of the work vehicle. The controller is to determine a guidance travel route along which the work vehicle is to travel and which is closest to the vehicle reference point in the search area among travel route candidates stored in a memory.

AGRICULTURAL VEHICLE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD

A control device includes a direction identifying data generator that generates direction identifying data including at least a portion of acquired point group data indicating a position of a region including the ridge in front of an agricultural vehicle in a traveling direction, a direction identification part that identifies a direction of the ridge on the basis of the direction identifying data, and a travel control part that controls the agricultural vehicle such that the agricultural vehicle travels in the direction of the ridge identified by the direction identification part.

Agriculture support device and agriculture support system

An agriculture support device includes a traveling creator to create a scheduled traveling route of an agricultural machine in an agricultural field, a display controller to display on an external terminal a virtual traveling status of the agricultural machine to travel on the scheduled traveling route created by the traveling creator, and a correction permitting controller to permit correction of the scheduled traveling route created by the traveling creator when the external terminal requests the correction. The display controller displays, on the external terminal, the virtual traveling status and a result traveling status of the agricultural machine that has traveled on the scheduled traveling route.