Raven Industries, Inc.

Matthew K Rust

Stephen Filip Fjelstad

Jonathan Eugene Mathews

Charles Harwood

David Alan Rislov

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.

Curvature sensing and guidance control system for an agricultural vehicle

A guidance assembly for an agricultural vehicle includes a pathing system configured to provide an array of swaths. The guidance assembly includes a composite guidance system in communication with an automated driving interface and the pathing system. The composite guidance system includes a turn guidance system configured to guide the agricultural vehicle along at least one turn segment extending between a first zone swath and a transverse second zone swath, and a swath guidance system configured to guide the agricultural vehicle along the first zone swath and the transverse second zone swath. The system includes a comparator configured to compare the agricultural vehicle position with swath departure and arrival locations. An interswath turning element automatically toggles the turn and swath guidance systems between activated and paused configurations according to the compared agricultural vehicle position and the swath departure and arrival locations.

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Sioux Falls, SD, United States of America

Matthew K Rust