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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2022
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., Ames, IA (US);
Jeffrey S. Wigdahl, Ames, IA (US);
Jeffrey C. Askey, Boone, IA (US);
Mark A. Cracraft, Johnston, IA (US);
Robert R. Carlson, Slater, IA (US);
Grant W. Mandernach, Polk City, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Ames, IA (US);
Abstract
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a harvester vehicle that includes a crop processing system comprising at least an accumulator and a round module builder. The harvester vehicle has a feedback fusion system that operably provides crop processing data indicative of an estimated accumulator fill level to a crop feed rate control system. The feedback fusion system has a plurality of feedback devices that operably provide feedback signals including data indicative of two or more of: crop mass flow, module builder status, module size, and accumulator fill level. The feedback fusion system has a control module that operably receives the feedback signals and generates an accumulator fill level signal based at least upon two or more of the feedback signals. The accumulator fill level signal is indicative of the estimated fill level in the accumulator.