Patent ID: 11945524
Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC B  E | IPC B  E

Claim 0:
1. An undercarriage clearance system for a work vehicle configured to operate along a vehicle trajectory, the undercarriage clearance system comprising:
a datastore containing undercarriage geometry data associated with an undercarriage assembly of the work vehicle including ground clearance data of the undercarriage assembly across a lateral dimension of a wheelbase of the work vehicle;
a first sensor configured to collect ground environment data within the vehicle trajectory;
a controller coupled to the first sensor and the datastore, the controller having a processor and memory architecture configured to:
receive the undercarriage geometry data from the datastore;
receive the ground environment data from the first sensor;
identify an obstacle within the vehicle trajectory;
evaluate a height of the identified obstacle and a projected path of the obstacle within the wheelbase of the work vehicle along the vehicle trajectory relative to the undercarriage geometry data to determine an obstacle clearance expectation; and
generate an alert command signal based on the determination of the obstacle clearance expectation; and
a display device coupled to the controller to receive the alert command signal and configured to render a display based on the alert command signal representing the obstacle clearance expectation;
wherein the controller is configured to generate the alert command signal such that the display device renders the display with a forward view having a first outline of the undercarriage assembly and first symbology representing the identified obstacle that depicts a projected intersection of the identified obstacle and the undercarriage assembly based on the vehicle trajectory.