Claas Agrosystems Kgaa Mbh & Co Kg

Claas E-systems Kgaa Mbh & Co. Kg

Claas Agrarsystems Gmbh & Co. Kg

Agrocom Verwaltungs Gmbh

Agrocom Gmbh & Co. Agrarsystem Kg

Tommy Ertbolle Madsen

Andreas Wilken

Morten Rufus Blas

Kristian Kirk

Mogens Blanke

Ludger Autermann

Gert Lysgaard Andersen

Allan Kildeby

Hubert Erdmann

Soeren Steen

Rufus Blas Morten

Kasper Lundberg Lykkegaard

Kim Amhild

Marton Rufus Blas

Michael Reckersmann

Allan Reinhold Kildeby

Peter Skjodt

Christoph Pein

Jens Möller

Peter Hieronymus

Karl-Josef Kleingräber

Sören Steen

Jesper Vilander

An agricultural machine with an implement for working a row culture of working rows arranged parallel to one another, interference rows arranged at an angle to the working rows or both includes at least one controllably moveably working section with activatable working devices for working the row culture. The implement has a control unit for controlling the working section and working device relative to a working row and an optical sensor unit connected to the control unit for generating an image of at least part of the row culture, from which a sensor signal (S) is generated for controlling the controllably working section, working device or both. The control unit evaluates a validity of the sensor signal (S) to determine whether the sensor signal (S) is used for controlling the working section or working device based on at least one evaluation parameter.

Harvesting device

A control system controlling a goods carrier of an agricultural vehicle for conveying goods to a target area, has a 3D imaging device providing frames imaging the target area, a data processor and a memory. The control system derives information from the frames and operates to obtain a reference frame comprising 3D information about the pose of the target area, identify a plurality of characteristic points of the target area in the reference frame, obtain a new frame, analyze the new frame to identify a plurality of characteristic points, search and match characteristic points in the reference frame and the new frame, analyze pairs of matched characteristic points to establish a group of pairs showing a common change of pose between the reference frame and the new frame, and provide a signal taking into account results of the latter analysis.

Control system of agricultural vehicle with goods carrier, agricultural vehicle, and method of controlling goods carrier of agricultural vehicle

A camera lens is formed with a casing and a lens stack having at least one lens element, the lens stack arranged within the casing. A spring arrangement is pre-compressed to exert a clamping force between the casing and the lens stark basically in a direction of an optical axis of the at least one lens element.

Camera lens

An agricultural vehicle has a steering system providing steering signals and including an imaging device for imaging surroundings of the vehicle and an image processing device, the steering system operates to provide by the imaging device an image of the field, analyze the image to obtain texture information, assign to a plurality of areas of the image probability-values reflecting the likelihood that the respective area relates to a specific structure, assume at least one geometric property of the specific structure, and establish a most possible position parameter of the specific structure taking into account the probability-values and the assumed geometric property; and to provide a steering signal in accordance with the position parameter thus established.

Method of detecting a structure in a field, a method of steering an agricultural vehicle and an agricultural vehicle

A filling degree gauge for measuring and displaying a residual filling potential of a target area, such as a container, being filled through a target, such as an open top, with goods by a goods carrier, such as a discharge spout, of an agricultural vehicle, such as a harvester, has a 3D sensor for observing at least a part of the target area including at least a part of the target, a data control system and a visual display unit. The data control system operates to provide on the visual display unit a visual display indicating residual filling potential by indicating the current one of at least three different levels of residual filling potential.

Filling degree gauge, agricultural vehicle with the gauge, and method of measuring and displaying residual filling potential of target area

A transferring device includes controllable goods carrier conveying goods to a target area, a stereo camera for providing images of the target area and a control system for deriving information from the images and controlling the goods carrier taking into account the information derived from the images. The stereo camera has two objective lenses and defines a common base line with a tilt angle relative to a horizontal. The common base line is placed in a vertical plane. The transferring device also includes floodlight projectors that are placed at a distance of at least 0.5 m from the stereo camera. Preferably, the controllable goods carrier is an ejecting spout.

Transferring device and an agricultural vehicle

A baler () composed of a pick-up device () for picking up a crop string (), a compression device for compressing the crop in a compression direction to form a bale, the compression device having components () for measuring a distribution of a charging degree transversely to the compression direction. The baler () also has a 3D imaging device () for recording a 3D image () of the field and the crop string () in front of the baler (), and a control device including a data processor () for controlling the baler () in dependence on data from the 3D image () and the charging degree ().

Method of controlling a baler and a baler

A method of navigating an agricultural vehicle, which is equipped with a 3D imaging device for imaging surroundings of the vehicle, and an image processing device, includes obtaining from the 3D imaging device frames imaging at least a part of the surroundings of the vehicle at different points of time while the vehicle is moving thus providing a chronological sequence of frames, analysing the frames, and establishing a change of pose of the vehicle using results of the analysis of at least two chronologically different frames.

Method of navigating an agricultural vehicle, and an agricultural vehicle implementing the same

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