AUTOMATIC GUIDANCE SYSTEM FOR TOWED FARM IMPLEMENTS

Patent №

US 6,804,597

Granted

2004-10-12

Filed 2003

Owner

NEW HOLLAND NORTH AMERICA, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10618958

An apparatus and method for automatically swinging a center pivot, towed implement from one side to the other side of a farm machine. The apparatus includes a Global Positioning System for locating the farm machine and sensors and remote controls for various functions of the machine to check and change the status of each machine function. An on-board computer uses the sensors and the GPS and a previously installed program to automatically determine what portion of the field has been worked and to direct the farm machine to swing the implement from one side to the other as required.

AI classification

AI hardware0.99
Planning0.43
Evolutionary computation0.01
Knowledge representation0.01
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

NEW HOLLAND NORTH AMERICA, INC.

assignment · 142910157

Assignors

POSSELIUS, JOHN H., DAY, JAMES R.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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