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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019

Filed:

May. 02, 2016
Applicant:

Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);

Inventors:

Adam Rusciolelli, Chicago, IL (US);

Tyson Dollinger, Mazon, IL (US);

John Posselius, Ephrata, PA (US);

Christopher A. Foster, Mohnton, PA (US);

Brian Ray, Chicago, IL (US);

Assignee:

CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 22/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); A01B 79/00 (2006.01); A01D 34/00 (2006.01); A01B 33/16 (2006.01); A01B 69/04 (2006.01); A01B 79/02 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2018.01); G06G 7/70 (2006.01); G06G 7/76 (2006.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01); A01D 101/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01B 79/005 (2013.01); A01B 33/16 (2013.01); A01B 69/008 (2013.01); A01B 79/02 (2013.01); A01D 34/008 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); A01D 2101/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a system for conducting agricultural operations in a field using one or more autonomous vehicles in which the agricultural operations may be optimized during run time. The system includes providing a mission plan for an autonomous vehicle, receiving progress updates from the vehicle as it conducts an agricultural operation according to the mission plan, and monitoring for event conditions which may be reported by the vehicle. Event conditions may include, for example, detection of an obstacle, or an oncoming vehicle, or a disablement of the vehicle. Upon receiving an event condition, the system may revise the mission plan to resolve the event condition while providing an optimization based on current agricultural conditions.


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