Deere + Company

Nathan R Vandike

Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla

Noel Wayne Anderson

Federico Pardina-Malbran

Duane M Bomleny

Matthew T Wold

Nathan E Krehbiel

Stephen R Corban

Bradley K Yanke

Colin D Engel

Corwin Marcus Puryk

Cody W Best

Nathan Greuel

Benjamin M Lovett

Darin Ledru Roth

Garrick William Herbst

Todd E Van Hal

Michael A Waldo

Andrea M Agarwal

Nicholas A Ohrstrom

Alan David Sheidler

Volker Fuchs

Gurmukh H Advani

Michael T Meschke

Brian Joseph Gilmore

Andrew J Peterson

Scott N Clark

Alexander B Lassers

James Hershbarger

Adam J Donohoe

Bhanu Kiran Palla

Mahesh S Bothe

Dinesh V Phatak

David L Wells

Cary S Hubner

Ryan Patrick Mackin

Glenn Everett Pope

William Douglas Graham

Niels Dybro

Martin Rittershofer

Mark Michael Chaney

David A Hanson

Paul I Craig

Christopher J Faulkner

Troy M Heims

Jeremiah K Johnson

Steven Timothy Rieck

William D Todd

Jeffrey R Walter

Austin M Laugen

Wentao W Yu

Nathaniel R Bernklau

Nathan Ogden

Thomas Herlitzius

Kevin A Thelen

Brian Gorge

Derek J Franke

Andrew Wesley Keenan

Zachary A Meyers

Adam J Beals

Hrishikesh H Tupe

Jody I Eyestone

Mehul P Bhavsar

Hans W Schaeffer

Stephan Kirstein

Martin Unterpaintner

Travis J Auderer

Eric M Heien

Brian J Gilmore

Sebastian Müller

Christian Korn

Michael W Derew

Megan L Winchell

Nathan Odgen

James Monroe Hershbarger

An agricultural system includes a control system. The control system obtains an input value of a characteristic corresponding to a geographic location. The control system further obtains a predictive power model, the predictive power model modeling a relationship between values of the characteristic and values of a power characteristic and configured to receive the input value of the characteristic corresponding to the geographic location and output an output value of the power characteristic corresponding to the geographic location. The control system generates a control signal to control a controllable subsystem of a mobile agricultural machine based on the output value of the power characteristic.

Systems and methods for predictive power requirements and control

A sensor senses wind direction and generates a sensor signal. A wind processor processes the sensor signal to identify a wind direction at a location of an agricultural harvester. An action signal is generated to control the agricultural harvester to avoid discharging residue from the agricultural harvester into unharvested crop, based upon the wind direction.

Residue spread control

Systems and methods for sensing accumulated residue on a transmission surface of a sensor of an agricultural machine and controlling a cleaning of the transmission surface. Using captured information obtained by the sensor through the transmission surface, a first cleanliness value can be derived and compared with a first threshold. If the first threshold is not satisfied, a cleaning system can be activated. Communication of signals generated using the captured information can also then be suspended or assigned a confidence value. Information subsequently captured by the sensor can be used to derive another cleanliness value for comparison to a second threshold. The subsequently derived cleanliness value can result in at least one of a change in the confidence value, resumption of communication of signals generated using captured information obtained by the sensor, deactivation of the cleaning system, and a change in the aggressiveness of the cleaning system.

Residue sensing and cleaning system

An agricultural harvesting system obtains a yield map that maps yield values to different geographic locations in a worksite and a speed map that maps agricultural harvester speed values to different geographic locations in the worksite. The agricultural harvesting system identifies a geographic location in the worksite at which the agricultural harvester will be full, at least to a threshold level, based on the yield map; identifies a geographic location in the worksite at which a material transfer operation is to start based on the geographic location at which the agricultural harvester will be full, at least to the threshold level; and identifies a time at which the agricultural harvester will arrive at the material transfer location, based on the speed map. The agricultural harvesting system can control one or more of the agricultural harvester and a receiving machine.

Systems and methods for predictive harvesting logistics

Control zones are identified on a thematic map and work machine actuator settings are identified for each control zone. A position of the work machine is sensed and actuators on the work machine are controlled based on the control zone that the work machine is in, and based upon the actuator settings corresponding to the control zone. The control zone is then divided, on a display, into a harvested portion of the control zone on which an observed condition value is shown, and control zone that has yet to be harvested, on which an estimated value of the condition is shown.

Mobile work machine control based on control zone map data

An agricultural harvesting system includes a harvesting logistics module that is configured to receive a map that maps values of a crop characteristic to different geographic locations in a field. The harvesting logistics module further configured to identify a crop characteristic threshold and to identify a mixture of crop material based on the map and based on the crop characteristic threshold. The harvesting logistics module configured to generate a route for a mobile machine, such as a receiving machine or a harvester, based on the identified mixture.

One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.

Predictive agricultural model and map generation

Predictive map generation and control system

A crop residue monitoring system may include a harvester, a camera to capture an image of crop residue generated by the harvester, an analytical unit to derive a value for a crop residue parameter of the crop residue based upon an optical analysis of the image and a control unit to adjust a subsequent field operation based upon the value of the crop residue parameter.

Crop residue based field operation adjustment

A residue distribution system includes a flow channel having a first lateral side and a second lateral side disposed. A spreader is positioned proximate a downstream end of the flow channel, and broadcasts the flow of the crop residue. A residue distributor is positioned within the flow channel and upstream of the spreader for directing the crop residue toward one of the first lateral side or the second lateral side of the flow channel to increase a mass of the crop residue that side of the spreader, whereby a discharge density of the crop residue on that side of the spreader is increased to overcome effects of a crosswind or an uphill side-slope on broadcast distribution of the crop residue.

Spreader distribution compensation through material flow manipulation

Predictive power map generation and control system

One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural system. The one or more information maps map one or more characteristic values at different geographic locations in a worksite. An in-situ sensor detects a mass flow value as a mobile machine operates at the worksite. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that maps predictive mass flow values or predictive yield values at different geographic locations in the worksite based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the mass flow value detected by the in-situ sensor or the yield value based on the detected mass flow value. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.

Map based farming for windrower operation

One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural system. The one or more information maps map one or more characteristic values at different geographic locations in a worksite. An in-situ sensor detects a weed value as a mobile machine operates at the worksite. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that maps predictive weed values at different geographic locations in the worksite based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the weed value detected by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.

An agricultural harvesting system includes a control system. The control system identifies a predictive value of a power characteristic based on a relationship between the power characteristic and a characteristic. The control system generates a control signal to control a controllable subsystem of a mobile hybrid agricultural harvesting machine based on the predictive value of the power characteristic.

A computer implemented method includes receiving a map that maps values of a crop characteristic to different locations across a field; receiving harvester route data indicative of a planned route of a harvester at the field; identifying a crop characteristic threshold; identifying a material transfer end location indicative of a location, along the planned route of the harvester, at which a material transfer operation between the harvester and a receiving machine is to end, based on the map, the planned route of the harvester, and the crop characteristic threshold; identifying a material transfer start location range indicative of a geographic area, along the planned route of the harvester, at which the material transfer operation is to start based on the material transfer end location; and generating a route for the receiving machine to travel based on the material transfer end location and the material transfer start location range.

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Nathan R Vandike