Claas Kgaa

Claas Kommanditgesellschaft Auf Aktien

Stefan Hagedorn

Norbert Diekhans

Ludger Autermann

Jochen Huster

Helmut Homburg

The automatic steering device for an electrically controllable hydraulic steering system automatically controls steered wheels (HR) of a steered vehicle, especially an agricultural machine, according to at least one electronic steering control signal (SHL,SHR). The automatic steering device includes one or more locating devices (OV) producing one or more locating signals (OS), a regulating device (ST) which periodically digitizes the locating signal or signals (OS), and produces the at least one electronic steering control signal by a logic combination of the digitized locating signal or signals and a predetermined locating criterion, particularly a lateral displacement of the vehicle from an edge of an agricultural material, to minimize a deviation of the locating signal or signals determined according to the predetermined criterion so that the at least one electronic steering control signal (SHL,SHR) increases in an approximately proportional manner in the vicinity of a null deviation from the predetermined locating criterion but increases progressively beyond the vicinity of the null deviation. A fuzzification of the control criteria and a defuzzification of at least one intermediate parameter to form the at least one electronic steering control signal (SHL,SHR) are disclosed.

Automatic steering device for an electrically controllable hydraulic

The locating device for an agricultural machine controlled by an automatic steering system includes a first locating device component (OV1) directed at a first portion of a field on which agricultural material is not present, but adjacent an edge (GK) of the agricultural material and producing a first locating signal (OS1), a second locating device component (OV2) directed at a second portion of the field containing the material and adjacent, but not including, the edge of it and producing a second locating signal (OS2), a third locating device component (OV3) directed at a third portion of the field including the edge of the material and producing a third locating signal (OS3), a device for transmitting the first, second and third locating signals (OS1, OS2, OS3) to a regulating device (ST) for generating at least one hydraulic steering signal (SHL,SHR) from a standardized locating signal (NOS) to control the steerable wheels (HR) according to a predetermined locating criterion and a device for generating the standardized locating signal (NOS) by determining a preset range parameter from the first and second locating signals (OS1,OS2), determining a null point value as an average value of the first and second locating signals (OS1,OS2) and deriving the standardized locating signal (NOS) from the third locating signal (OS3) and the null point value.

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Warendorf, Germany

Stefan Hagedorn