Controlling the position of an agricultural implement coupled to an agricultural vehicle based upon three-dimensional topography data

• Main Authors: PICKETT, TERENCE DANIEL, HAN, SHUFENG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.09.2012
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; FISHING; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; MOWING; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES ORIMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; TRAPPING

A system (70 in FIG 2) for controlling the position of an agricultural implement coupled to an agricultural vehicle comprises a control unit (86) connected to a field topography database (76) containing three-dimensional data of the topography of a field, a location signal generation arrangement (74...