Abstract:
A wireless communication system for agricultural vehicles, in which each vehicle has a global positioning system (GPS), a multi-channel transmitter/receiver module having a limited communication range, and a signal processor connected to the transmitter/receiver module. The transmitter is controlled by the signal processor to transmit on a predetermined communication channel a signal comprising a unique vehicle identifier and a signal indicating the current positional coordinates of the vehicle. The signal processor also analyzes the signals received from other vehicles within the communication range and determines from the identifier and the positional coordinates data when another vehicle is ready to perform a joint operation with the vehicle. Prior to initiation of a joint operation, the communication system is switched to a different communication channel.
Abstract:
A system and method is provided for adaptive control of at least one parameter of an auto guidance control algorithm for a vehicle. The parameters may be varied according to a previously established look up table, or automatically adapted through the use of control logic, such as a “fuzzy logic” algorithm. The control parameters that can be adaptively controlled include steered wheel turn rate, proportional valve current gain, line acquisition rate and/or auto guidance control valve current limits. The control algorithm responds to the vehicle's operating parameters such as vehicle speed, tracking error, predicted heading, and hydraulic oil temperature to make adjustments to the auto guidance control parameters.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for detecting a position with respect to a defined area (4), in particular in a mobile working machine, comprising the following steps: providing (S1) a current signal in a boundary conductor (3), which surrounds the defined area (4), in accordance with a boundary signal that is provided, the boundary signal (BS) corresponding to a pseudo-accident signal; receiving (S3) a detection signal of a magnetic field generated in the boundary conductor (3) by the current signal; generating a reconstructed boundary signal from the detection signal; providing (S4) a reference signal (RS) which has a bit pattern corresponding to the boundary signal (BS) provided; carrying out (S5) a correlation method in order to determine a time-based correlation offset between the reference signal and the reconstructed boundary signal and a correlation value (KKF) between the reference signal (RS) and the reconstructed boundary signal (BS), which are displaced in relation to each other by the correlation offset determined; and determining (S7) a position inside or outside the defined area (4) as a function of the correlation value (KKF) determined.
Abstract:
A method of controlling outdoor ground processing operations of two or more work vehicles (15, 260, 270, 280, 290, 300), involves running a computer model (100, 110, 120) of the operations using a number of candidate schedules of the ground processing operations using predicted conditions, the operations involving work vehicle movements and work vehicle processing tasks, at least one of the operations for one of the work vehicles being a dependent operation, being dependent on another (25) of the work vehicles. An overall schedule for the operations is generated and used to control actual execution of the ground processing operations by the work vehicles. The computer model is updated as changes in the conditions occur as monitored during the actual execution, and used to adapt the actual execution of a remaining part of the ground processing operations.
Abstract:
Agricultural vehicles are guided to prevent overlap of areas operated on by the vehicles. Guidance data is shared between agricultural vehicles by coverage data of area covered by a first agricultural vehicle being wirelessly transmitted to a central server. Download guidance data is generated at the central server using the coverage data received at the central server. The download guidance data is wirelessly transmitted from the server to a second guidance device of a second agricultural vehicle. The second agricultural vehicle uses the download guidance data to not overlap with area covered by the first agricultural vehicle while operating.