Deere + Company

Ajit K Thankappan Pillai

Qiang R Liu

Ryan C Burnley

Michael A Torzewski

Michael R Moody

Patrick C Dougherty

David A Johnson

Claudia R Athens

Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for automatically conforming guidance of work vehicles to detected conditions in a work area. Upon determining a deviation of a work vehicle's current movement path from a first planned movement path with respect to the work area, at least a portion of the work area may be identified as a region of interest, along with coverage characteristics associated with the region of interest, based at least in part on the determined deviation. A second planned movement path is generated for the work vehicle and/or another work vehicle subsequently traversing the work area relative to the region of interest, wherein the generated second planned movement path accounts for the coverage characteristics associated with the region of interest. The second planned movement path may be generated to avoid the region, prevent turns within the region, optimize work vehicle operation within the work area generally, etc.

Work vehicle guidance and/or automation with respect to identified regions of interest in a work area

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to display acquisition paths. An example apparatus includes a display handler to, in response to a directional condition of an autonomous vehicle satisfying a threshold, render an acquisition path for the autonomous vehicle, the acquisition path specifying a route along which the autonomous vehicle is to travel to acquire a guidance path; and a vehicle condition controller to, in response to determining that a real time display criterion is satisfied, redetermine whether the directional condition of the autonomous vehicle satisfies the threshold to cause the display handler to re-render the acquisition path.

Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to display acquisition paths

A computer-implemented method of controlling a mobile agricultural machine includes receiving field map data representing a first agricultural operation performed on a field, receiving a location sensor signal indicative of a sensed geographic location of the mobile agricultural machine on the field, the mobile agricultural machine having a plurality of sections that are independently controllable to perform a second agricultural operation on the field that is different than the first agricultural operation, and generating a control signal to control the plurality of sections based on the field map data and the location sensor signal.

Agricultural machine section control

An agricultural system automatically detects a turn pattern and automatically identifies a next path that will be taken through the field. The agricultural system automatically controls the machine through the next turn that navigates the machine from a current path to the identified next path. This continues until a land size has been completed at which point the agricultural system identifies a next land in a field.

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West Des Moines, IA, United States of America

Ajit K Thankappan Pillai