US 12,078,996 B2
System and method for implementing end-of-row turns for agricultural machines
Andrew Berridge, Burr Ridge, IL (US); Yaseen Suleman, Glendale Heights, IL (US); Brett McClelland, Chicago, IL (US); Kousha Moaveninejad, La Grange, IL (US); Thomas Damme, Göschitz (DE); Frank Glowna, Jena (DE); and Andreas Nennstiel, Jena (DE)
Filed by CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US)
Filed on Jun. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/355,599.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/046,064, filed on Jun. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0405644 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2006.01); A01B 69/04 (2006.01); A01B 79/00 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 1/0219 (2013.01) [A01B 69/008 (2013.01); A01B 79/005 (2013.01); G05D 1/0223 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for implementing end-of-row (EOR) turns within a field, the method comprising:
accessing, with a computing system, a location of a work boundary outlining a work area of the field within which an agricultural machine is configured to perform an agricultural operation, the work boundary and an outer field boundary defining a headland area therebetween;
generating, with the computing system, a boundary-based EOR turn path in the headland area and within the outer field boundary for the agricultural machine between an end point of a first path extending across the work area and a start point of a second path extending across the work area, the boundary-based EOR turn path being defined relative to the work boundary such that the agricultural machine is maintained in the headland area spaced outwardly apart from the work boundary by at least a minimum buffer distance as the agricultural machine is traversed between the end point of the first path and the start point of the second path, the end point of the first path and the start point of the second path each being located at the work boundary; and
automatically executing an EOR turn along the boundary-based EOR turn path by automatically controlling an operation of at least one of a steering system or a speed system of the agricultural machine to guide the agricultural machine along the boundary-based EOR turn path.