Deere & Company

Carnegie Mellon University

Joan Campoy

Herman Herman

Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez

Aaron J Bruns

James Joseph Phelan

John M Hageman

Carl Knox Wellington

Cristian Dima

Zachary Pezzementi

Victor S Sierra

Hanke Boesch

Cason Robert Male

James Andrew Bagnell

Zachary Thomas Bonefas

Neil Stegall

Christopher Chandler Fromme

Jaime W Bourne

Richard Pantaleo

Elliot Allen Cuzzillo

Jeffrey David McMahill

Neil Frederick Stegall

Richard D Pantaleo

Carlos Vallespi

Cason Male

Zach Pezzementi

A self-guided blossom picker uses a vision system to identify and locate blossoms or inflorescence growing on a plant. The device can be towed by a tractor or it can be self-propelled. Image data captured by the vision system is sent to an machine vision module, which interprets the data and identifies a location of blossom. A controller uses the location data to command a picker to the proper location. A cutter on the picker is actuated to remove the blossom.

Self-guided blossom picking device

A method and non-transitory computer-readable medium capture an image of bulk grain and apply a feature extractor to the image to determine a feature of the bulk grain in the image. For each of a plurality of different sampling locations in the image, based upon the feature of the bulk grain at the sampling location, a determination is made regarding a classification score for the presence of a classification of material at the sampling location. A quality of the bulk grain of the image is determined based upon an aggregation of the classification scores for the presence of the classification of material at the sampling locations.

Grain quality monitoring

First imaging device collects first image data, whereas second imaging device collects second image data of a storage portion. An image processing module identifies a rim of a container in either the first image data or the second image data. The image processing module then overlays an outline of the rim in an image presented on a display to an operator of a transferring vehicle. The image processing module further identifies the fill level of material in a receiving vehicle container and overlays this information in the image presented on the display.

Fill level indicator for an automated unloading system

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Joan Campoy