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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2013
Applicant:
Trimble Navigation Limited, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
John William Peake, Mountain View, CA (US);
Arthur F. Lange, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Trimble Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2006.01); A01B 69/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2013.01); A01B 69/008 (2013.01); G05D 1/0227 (2013.01); G05D 1/0278 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0201 (2013.01);
Abstract
In an automatic vehicle position control system, such as a satellite-based agricultural implement steering system, the satellite-based steering information is adjusted with information obtained from one or more path sensors to facilitate the automatic nudging of the vehicle to take account of inaccurate tracking of the agricultural implement relative to its tractor, terrain variations, and inaccuracies in the satellite-based steering system.