Granted Patent B2

US 12,353,210 · App. 16/939,785 · Granted Jul 8, 2025

Inventors: David Wilson (Prairie City, IA); Adam Fett (Nevada, IA); Caleb Huitt (Story City, IA); A J Steenhoek (Mingo, IA); Kolton Rottink (Santa Clarita, CA); Mitchell Freshour (Urbandale, IA); Nate Mohling (Ankeny, IA); Ryan Kool (Elkhart, IA); Steve Schulteis (Story City, IA); Bill Cran (Ames, IA); Joe Holoubek (Ames, IA); Luke Call (Ames, IA); Mike Myers (Madison, WI)

Assignee: Ag Leader Technology

G05D1/0214A01B69/008B60K35/00B60Q9/008G05D1/0295B60K35/10B60K35/28B60K2360/166

Abstract

Claims (44)

1. An agricultural vehicle guidance system,

comprising:

a) a display unit;

b) an automatic steering system; and

c) a processor configured to:

receive vehicle path data comprising a time series of leading vehicle path data from a leading vehicle;

store the vehicle path data;

generate a follow guidance path for a following agricultural vehicle from the stored vehicle path data;

perform at least one of gap filling and/or curve smoothing on the leading vehicle path data; and

use the generated follow guidance path to automatically steer the following vehicle with the automatic steering system.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the leading vehicle path data is received via a cloud server.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the leading vehicle path data comprises leading vehicle swath data.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the guidance path is generated by applying an offset to the leading vehicle swath data.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the vehicle path data comprises following vehicle data comprising sensor data.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the vehicle path data comprises leading characteristic data and following characteristic data.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

i) establish leading vehicle swath and heading; and

ii) apply an offset.

8. The system of claim 5 , wherein the following vehicle data comprises roll, pitch and yaw data.

9. An agricultural vehicle guidance system, comprising:

a processor configured to:

receive vehicle path data comprising leading vehicle path data from at least one leading vehicle;

store the vehicle path data;

generate a follow guidance path via establishing leading vehicle swath and heading; and

use the generated follow guidance path to automatically steer a following vehicle with an automatic steering system,

wherein at least one of the leading vehicles is a planter.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the leading vehicle path data comprises:

a) leading vehicle location data; and

b) leading vehicle swath data.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the vehicle path data comprises leading characteristic data and following characteristic data.

12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the vehicle path data comprises user input data.

13. The system of claim 9 , wherein the guidance path generation further comprises establishing swath center and/or establishing swath edge.

14. The system of claim 9 , wherein the processor is further configured to gap fill and/or curve smooth.

15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the processor is further configured to predict collision points and issue collision warnings.

16. A following agricultural vehicle guidance system comprising:

a processor configured to:

receive a series of leading vehicle path data comprising leading vehicle swath data from a leading vehicle;

store the series of leading vehicle path data;

generate a follow guidance path for at least one following agricultural vehicle, wherein the leading vehicle swath data comprises previous, adjacent leading vehicle swath data; and

use the generated follow guidance path to automatically steer the at least one following vehicle with an automatic steering system.

17. The system of claim 16 , further comprising an enterprise system configured to be executed by a plurality of following vehicles.

18. The system of claim 16 , further comprising a counter reset system constructed and arranged to reset a grain tank counter.

19. The system of claim 16 , further comprising a collision alert system.

20. The system of claim 16 configured to utilize sensor data.

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