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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2022
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 locations of receiving vehicles grouped together relative to a forage harvester and detect fill levels of crop material within each receiving vehicle and path and landing position of material expelled from the harvester into a bin of a receiving vehicle of the group. Such information is used as feedback for operating the harvester or one or more self-propelled vehicles moving the receiving vehicles. Some embodiments detect ground level in front of the harvester or the receiving vehicles and use such information as feedback. Some embodiments include a link to communicate the feedback to a GUI for user visualization of the feedback and semi-automated operations. For example, readings from LIDAR and a camera of the harvester detect a position and a crop material fill level for each receiving vehicle in the group, and the GUI outputs the information.