US 11,937,525 B2
Agricultural combination with a tractive machine and a plow
Christian Ehlert, Bielefeld (DE); Jan Carsten Wieckhorst, Paderborn (DE); Jona Pieper, Nordkichen (DE); Christian Birkmann, Versmold (DE); and Jens Heydekorn, Harsewinkel (DE)
Assigned to CLAAS Tractor SAS, Vélizy-Villacoublay (FR)
Filed by CLAAS Tractor SAS, Vélizy-Villacoublay (FR)
Filed on Aug. 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/993,323.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 122 116.1 (DE), filed on Aug. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0045280 A1, Feb. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A01B 69/00 (2006.01); A01B 59/042 (2006.01); A01B 63/00 (2006.01); A01B 63/24 (2006.01); A01B 63/28 (2006.01)
CPC A01B 69/004 (2013.01) [A01B 59/042 (2013.01); A01B 63/008 (2013.01); A01B 63/245 (2013.01); A01B 63/28 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An agricultural combination comprising:
a tractive machine having a driver assistance system with an input/output unit, and
a plow, wherein the plow and the tractive machine are configured for adjustment with machine parameters for optimizing a cultivation of a field,
wherein a portion of the machine parameters of the plow is manually adjustable and/or automatically adjustable by means of the tractive machine, and
wherein the driver assistance system comprises a plow adjust assistant configured to serially perform optimization stages comprising at least one initial optimization stage followed by at least one subsequent optimization stage:
in the at least one initial optimization stage:
determine one or more initial stage optimized machine parameters for one or both of the tractive machine or the plow, the one or more initial stage optimized machine parameters in order to optimize the one or both of the tractive machine or the plow of one of optimization of a configuration of the tractive machine, of optimization of a configuration of the plow, or of optimization of a plow-specific configuration of the tractive machine in which the tractive machine is coupled to the plow; and
perform at least one of:
output, to an operator, the one or more initial stage optimized machine parameters in at least one initial dialog step for at least partly manual input by the operator; or
automatic implementation of the one or more initial stage optimized machine parameters;
in the at least one subsequent optimization stage performed after the at least one initial optimization stage and dependent on the one or more initial stage optimized machine parameters determined in the at least one initial optimization stage:
determine, using the one or more initial stage optimized machine parameters determined in the at least one initial optimization stage, one or more subsequent stage optimized machine parameters for the plow, the one or more subsequent stage optimized machine parameters for implementation in order to optimize the plow as the plow, when coupled to the tractive machine, is cultivating a field; and
perform at least one of:
output, to the operator, the one or more subsequent stage optimized machine parameters in at least one subsequent dialog step for at least partly manual input by the operator; or
automatic implementation of the one or more subsequent stage optimized machine parameters.