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1. A harvest route generator system that generates a harvest route for a harvesting machine, the harvest route generator comprising:
- a route generator that receives lodged crop information, from a sensor system, indicative of a characteristic of a lodged crop in a field and generates;
a communication component that communicates the harvesting route through the field to the harvesting machine; and
a grouping component that accesses a set of grouping rules and groups areas of the field together based on the lodged crop information and the grouping rules, and provides an indication of the grouped areas of the field to the route generator the route generator generating a harvesting route through the field for the harvesting machine, based on the lodged crop information and the grouped areas.
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A harvest route generator system generates a harvest route for a harvesting machine. The harvest route generator system has a route generator that receives lodged crop information, from a sensor system, indicative of a characteristic of a lodged crop in a field and generates a harvesting route through the field for the harvesting machine, based on the lodged crop information. The harvest route generator system also has a communication component that communicates the harvesting route through the field to the harvesting machine.
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1. A harvest route generator system that generates a harvest route for a harvesting machine, the harvest route generator comprising:
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a route generator that receives lodged crop information, from a sensor system, indicative of a characteristic of a lodged crop in a field and generates; a communication component that communicates the harvesting route through the field to the harvesting machine; and a grouping component that accesses a set of grouping rules and groups areas of the field together based on the lodged crop information and the grouping rules, and provides an indication of the grouped areas of the field to the route generator the route generator generating a harvesting route through the field for the harvesting machine, based on the lodged crop information and the grouped areas. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A harvesting machine, comprising:
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a propulsion and steering subsystem that propels and steers the harvesting machine through a field; a set of harvesting subsystems that perform harvesting and material handling operations to harvest a crop from the field; and a controller that receives lodging information indicative of lodging characteristics of a lodged crop in the field and that generates a subsystem control signal based on the lodging information to control at least one of the subsystems; and a position sensor that senses a position of the harvesting machine in the field and generates a position signal indicative of the position of the harvester in the field, wherein the controller receives the lodging information as lodging orientation and lodging magnitude, correlated to geographic position in the field, and generates the subsystem control signal based on the lodging information and the position of the harvesting machine in the field. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer implemented method of generating a harvest route for a harvesting machine, the method comprising:
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receiving lodged crop information, indicative of lodging magnitude and a lodging orientation of a lodged crop in a field; generating a harvesting route through the field for the harvesting machine, based on the lodged crop information; communicating the harvesting route through the field to the harvesting machine; accessing a set of grouping rules and grouping areas of the field together based on a similarity in the lodged crop information and based on the grouping rules; correlating the grouped areas to geographic position in the field; generating a field lodging map with the grouped areas correlated to lodging magnitude and orientation and correlated to geographic position in the field; and providing the field lodging map to the route generator, wherein generating the harvesting route comprises generating the harvesting route through the field based on the field lodging map.
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