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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2018
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Chad A. Ackerman, Urbana, IL (US);
Scott A. Stephens, Carefree, AZ (US);
Dolly Wu, Carrollton, TX (US);
David S. Mercer, W Des Moines, IA (US);
Mark A. Harris, Blue Grass, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A scouting system can include an autonomous ground vehicle having a perception sensor and a motion sensor to construct an occupancy grid referenced to a coordinate system of the autonomous ground vehicle. The autonomous ground vehicle is configured to use information from the occupancy grid to detect crop rows in a crop field. The autonomous ground vehicle is configured to identify and classify one or more non-crop plant in-lier objects arranged within the crop rows and generate an output signal received by an external vehicle to cause the external vehicle to perform a task when the one or more non-crop plant in-lier objects are identified within the crop rows.