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Automated Harvesting
Overview
NREC produced a new class of robotic harvesters that increase
efficiency and productivity in agriculture by reducing reliance
on human operators.
The automated harvesting project targeted three levels
of automation:
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A "cruise control” feature to automatically
steer, drive and control the harvesting header, thereby
allowing allow the operator to focus on other in-cab controls
and harvest conditions.
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A GPS-based "teach/playback” system to enable
the harvester to "learn” a field and then
repeat a given path, thereby allowing one operator to
remotely control several harvesters.
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A fully autonomous harvester using vision perception
to completely harvest a field with no human supervision.
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