Predictive power map generation and control system

• Main Authors: Palla, Bhanu Kiran Reddy, Anderson, Noel W, Vandike, Nathan R
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.05.2023
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEASURING TWO OR MORE VARIABLES NOT COVEREDIN A SINGLE OTHER SUBCLASS; CALCULATING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; COMPUTING; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; FISHING; FORESTRY; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; HARVESTING; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; MEASURING NOT SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR A SPECIFIC VARIABLE; MEASURING OR TESTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOWING; NAVIGATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; REGULATING; SURVEYING; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TARIFF METERING APPARATUS; TESTING; TRAPPING

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.