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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2005
Shufeng Han, Johnston, IA (US);
John Franklin Reid, Moline, IL (US);
Francisco Rovira-más, Benifayo, ES;
Shufeng Han, Johnston, IA (US);
John Franklin Reid, Moline, IL (US);
Francisco Rovira-Más, Benifayo, ES;
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and system for guiding a vehicle comprises a location determining receiver for collecting location data for the vehicle. A vision module collects vision data for the vehicle. A location quality estimator estimates the location quality data for the location data during an evaluation time window. A vision module estimates vision quality data for the vision data during the evaluation time window. A supervisor module selects at least one of a location data weight and a vision data weight based on the quality data.