Patent ID: 11873621
Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E | IPC E

Claim 10:
11. A self-propelled work vehicle comprising:
an implement configured for working terrain, said implement comprising one or more components coupled to a main frame of the work vehicle, at least one of the one or more implement components associated with at least one defined linkage joint;
a plurality of sensors respectively associated with opposing sides of the at least one linkage joint; and
a controller functionally linked to each of the plurality of sensors, and configured to
receive output signals from each of the plurality of sensors, said output signals comprising sense elements;
for each of the at least one linkage joint,
fuse the sense elements from the received output signals in an independent coordinate frame associated at least in part with the respective linkage joint, wherein the independent coordinate frame is independent of a global navigation frame for the work vehicle, and
track at least one joint characteristic based on at least a portion of the sense elements from the received output signals for each of the opposing sides of the respective linkage joint.