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Method and system for augmenting a guidance system with a path sensor

  • US 8,655,536 B2
  • Filed: 11/16/2009
  • Issued: 02/18/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for augmenting guidance information from an automatic guidance system in a mobile agricultural machine, comprising:

  • a position determination guidance sensor mounted on the mobile agricultural machine and configured to provide guidance information for controlling the steering direction of the mobile agricultural machine along a guidance path;

    at least one contact-based path sensor mounted on the mobile agricultural machine for physically sensing the relative position of the mobile agricultural machine to at least one path reference point; and

    a processor configured to estimate augmented guidance information derived from said at least one path sensor and said position determination guidance sensor.

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