IMPLEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENT WEAR DETECTION AND ESTIMATION

• Main Authors: Schleicher, Tyler D, Anderson, Noel W, Maeder, Curtis A
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 22.12.2022
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS INVEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OFTRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GASEXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS, IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDEDFOR ELSEWHERE; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; CALCULATING; CHECKING-DEVICES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; COMPUTING; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; FISHING; FORESTRY; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES ORIMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; REGULATING; SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; TRANSPORTING; TRAPPING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS

An implement management system detects implement wear and monitors implement states to modify operating modes of a vehicle. The system can determine implement wear using the pull of the implement on the vehicle, the force and angle of which is represented by an orientation vector. The system may measure a current orientation vector and determine an expected orientation vector using sensors and a model (e.g., a machine learned model). Additionally, the implement management system can determine an implement state based on images of the soil and the implement captured by a camera onboard the vehicle during operation. The system may apply different models to the images to determine a likely state of the implement. The difference between the expected and current orientation vectors or the determined implement state may be used to determine whether and how the vehicle's operating mode should be modified.