Machine control using a predictive map

US11849672B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Deere & Company · US

Inventors

• Nathan R. Vandike · Geneseo, US
• Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla · Bettendorf, US
• Corwin M. Puryk · East Moline, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 9, 2020
• Grant date: Dec 26, 2023
• Expiry date: Apr 3, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05D1/248
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.