Device and method for guiding agricultural vehicles using modified swath width
US9750173B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 27, 2015 |
| Grant date | Sep 5, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 19, 2035 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01C21/30
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method for altering a swath path of a vehicle includes the steps of: loading a base swath path and an original swath width into a memory of the vehicle; generating a plurality of swath paths from the base swath path and the original swath width, each of the generated swath paths defining at least two geographic locations; measuring a current geographic location of the vehicle; determining a difference between the current geographic location and a geographic location of a swath path nearest to the current geographic location; determining a number of swath paths that the generated swath path nearest to the current geographic location is subsequent to the base swath path; dividing the difference by the determined number of swath paths to produce a swath width remark distance; and adding the swath width remark distance to the original swath width to produce a modified swath width.
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