Agricultural production machine with driver assistance system

1 . An agricultural production machine configured to perform an agricultural task in a local context and to determine one or more working parameters of the agricultural production machine, the agricultural production machine comprising:

a sensor system;

one or more process units configured to perform one or more processes of the agricultural task; and

a driver assistance system in communication with the sensor system, the driver assistance system configured to:

access a map control system, wherein the map control system comprises one or more basic characteristic maps and one or more context-related maps, wherein the one or more basic characteristic maps and one or more context-related maps are configured to optimize one or more work parameters of one or more process units of the agricultural production machine and to describe at least a relationship between the one or more working parameters of a respective process unit of the agricultural production machine and quality parameters using initial working points;

at least partly while performing the agricultural task, determine a local context, wherein the local context comprises one or more of: local weather; local climate; local crop type; local crop variety; local degree of maturation; or local soil condition;

determine whether at least one respective context-related map is correlated to the local context;

responsive to determining that the at least one respective context-related map is correlated to the local context;

access a model quality module that is configured to analyze a model quality of the at least one respective context-related map, wherein the model quality is configured to determine a time interval until optimization of the one or more working parameters resulting from a selected strategy specification being achieved;

access at least one threshold value for the time interval;

analyze, using the model quality module, the model quality of the at least one respective context-related map with regard to the at least one of threshold value for the time interval in which optimized working parameters from the selected strategy specification are generated by the at least one respective context-related map;

responsive to determining, based on the analysis, that the model quality of the at least one respective context-related map at least meets the at least one threshold value for the time interval in which the optimized working parameters are generated by the at least one respective context-related map, use the at least one respective context-related map as an initial map in order to generate the one or more working parameters; and

responsive to determining, based on the analysis, that the model quality of the at least one respective context-related map does not meet the at least one threshold value for the time interval in which the optimized working parameters are generated by the at least one respective context-related map, use at least one respective basic characteristic map;

responsive to determining that the at least one respective context-related map is not correlated to the local context, use the at least one respective basic characteristic map as the initial map in order to generate the one or more working parameters; and

automatically control the one or more process units of the agricultural production machine using the one or more working parameters in order to automatically perform the agricultural task in the local context.

2 . The agricultural production machine of claim 1 , wherein the map control system is configured to:

determine, during performance of the agricultural task, whether at least one condition of the local context changes; and

responsive to determining that the at least one condition of the local context changes, replace a used context-related characteristic map with or change to usage of an adapted context-related characteristic map.

3 . The agricultural production machine of claim 2 , wherein the map control system assigned to the driver assistance system is configured to:

determine current conditions;

determine that the current conditions are identical to conditions assigned to a previously-used context-related map;

responsive to determining that the current conditions are identical to the conditions assigned to the previously-used context-related map, access, based on the current conditions, a previously-used context-related map; and

responsive to determining the at least one threshold value is reached, replacing using the previously-used context-related map by an adapted context-related characteristic map.

4 . The agricultural production machine of claim 2 , wherein the local context comprises local weather or local climate;

wherein the map control system is configured to determine, during performance of the agricultural task, whether at least one condition of the local weather or the local climate changes; and

responsive to determining that the at least one condition of the local weather or the local climate changes, replace the used context-related characteristic map with or change to usage of the adapted context-related characteristic map.

5 . The agricultural production machine of claim 4 , wherein the local weather or the local climate changes comprises changes in cloud cover or in dew setting.

6 . The agricultural production machine of claim 2 , wherein the local context comprises local crop variety or local crop type;

wherein the map control system is configured to determine, during performance of the agricultural task, whether at least one condition of the local crop variety or the local crop type; and

responsive to determining that the at least one condition of the local crop variety or the local crop type changes, replace the used context-related characteristic map with or change to usage of the adapted context-related characteristic map.

7 . The agricultural production machine of claim 2 , wherein the local context comprises local soil condition;

wherein the map control system is configured to determine, during performance of the agricultural task, whether at least one condition of the local soil condition; and

responsive to determining that the at least one condition of the local soil condition changes, replace the used context-related characteristic map with or change to usage of the adapted context-related characteristic map.

8 . The agricultural production machine of claim 7 , wherein the local weather or the local climate changes comprises changes in fertilizer.

9 . The agricultural production machine of claim 1 , wherein the map control system assigned to the driver assistance system is configured to:

determine one or more conditions for performing the agricultural task with the agricultural production machine;

determine whether the one or more conditions for performing the agricultural task with the agricultural production machine are identical or similar to conditions for performing the agricultural task with a different agricultural production machine; and

responsive to determining that the one or more conditions for performing the agricultural task with the agricultural production machine are identical or similar to conditions for performing the agricultural task with the different agricultural production machine, exchange using a context-related map with a previously-used context-related map that was used by the different agricultural production machine.

10 . The agricultural production machine of claim 9 ,

wherein the map control system is further configured to replace the previously-used context-related map, that was used by the different agricultural production machine, in one or more respective agricultural production machine in a fleet, responsive to reaching the at least one threshold value of the model quality of the model quality module for a respective time period within different times of a year.

11 . The agricultural production machine of claim 1 , wherein the map control system is configured to determine whether a used context-related map is to be exchanged between agricultural production machines in a fleet which are in use in different regions by:

determining when the at least one threshold value of the model quality of the model quality module is reached; and

responsive to determining the at least one threshold value is reached, exchanging the used context-related map between the agricultural production machines in the fleet.

12 . The agricultural production machine of claim 1 , wherein the map control system is configured to determine whether a used context-related map is to be exchanged between agricultural production machines in a fleet that are used at different times of a year by:

determining when the at least one threshold value of the model quality of the model quality module is reached; and

responsive to determining the at least one threshold value is reached, exchanging the used context-related map between the agricultural production machines in the fleet; and wherein the different times of a year comprise times of a same year or of different years.

13 . The agricultural production machine of claim 1 , wherein a control assembly comprises a server-based solution and is configured to distribute the context-related maps that are optimized;

wherein the control assembly includes a database with stored strategy parameters correlated to data on local contexts;

wherein the stored strategy parameters in the database are of driver assistance systems of agricultural production machines that have been successively optimized in optimization routines during execution of agricultural tasks in local contexts from initial strategy parameters for adaptation to a particular local context;

wherein the driver assistance system is configured to determine context data of the local context of the agricultural task and to transmit the context data to the control assembly;

wherein, responsive to transmitting the context data so that the control assembly determines context-related characteristic maps adapted to the local context based on comparing the transmitted context data with the context data from the database, the driver assistance system is configured to receive the context-related characteristic maps and to use the context-related characteristic maps as basic characteristic maps; and

wherein the driver assistance system is configured to determine context data of the local context of the agricultural task using data generated by the sensor system.

14 . The agricultural production machine of claim 13 , wherein the control assembly is positioned externally to the agricultural production machine; and

wherein the control assembly is formed by one or more servers and configured to communicate with the agricultural production machine in order to distribute the at least one respective context-related map as the initial map.

15 . The agricultural production machine of claim 1 , wherein the driver assistance system is configured to determine optimized working parameters for the agricultural production machine to perform the agricultural task in a determination routine using a parameterizable strategy;

wherein the strategy comprises the strategy specification, an application instruction and the one or more optimized working parameters; and

wherein the strategy is parameterized by strategy parameters for adaptation to the local context.

16 . The agricultural production machine of claim 15 , wherein the driver assistance system is configured to use the strategy specification as input parameters of an application instruction in the determination routine in order to determine the one or more optimized working parameters optimized with respect to the strategy specification as output parameters of the application instruction;

wherein the driver assistance system is configured to parameterize the strategy with initial strategy parameters at a beginning of execution of the agricultural task in order to determine the one or more optimized working parameters;

wherein the strategy comprises one or more characteristic maps;

wherein the driver assistance system is configured to determine the one or more optimized working parameters based on the strategy specification from the one or more characteristic maps using the application instruction; and

wherein the characteristic map is designed as one or both of a basic characteristic map or as a parameterized characteristic map.