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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2022
Harvester systems and methods for automated and semi-automated filling of bins of receiving vehicles
Agco International Gmbh, Neuhausen, CH;
Martin Peter Christiansen, Randers, DK;
Esma Mujkic, Randers, DK;
Ramon Buchaca Tarragona, Randers, DK;
Morten Stigaard Laursen, Randers, DK;
Kenneth Düring Jensen, Randers, DK;
Morten Leth Bilde, Langaa, DK;
AGCO International GMBH, Neuhausen, CH;
Abstract
Described herein are technologies that use LIDAR and computer vision to detect a location of a receiving vehicle relative to a forage harvester, fill levels of crop material within the receiving vehicle, and path and landing position of material expelled from the forage harvester and received by a bin of the receiving vehicle. The technologies use such information as feedback for operating the harvester or the receiving vehicle. Some embodiments detect ground level in front of the harvester or the receiving vehicle, and such information is used as feedback too. Some embodiments include a link to communicate the feedback to a GUI for user visualization of the feedback and semi-automated operations of the harvester or the receiving vehicle. For example, readings from LIDAR and a camera of the harvester detect a topography of the material deposited in the bin of the receiving vehicle, and a GUI outputs the topography.