Patent ID: 11944036
Assignee: CLAAS SELBSTFAHRENDE ERNTEMASCHINEN GMBH
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 16:
17. A method for controlling a forage harvester comprising:
using an optimization model comprising at least one multidimensional characteristic map in order to control a corn cracker, the corn cracker processing grain components to comminute harvested material, the corn cracker including at least two rollers configured to rotate, the at least two rollers including a gap with an adjustable gap width therebetween through which the harvested material is transported, the corn cracker including machine parameters comprising the adjustable gap width and one or both of adjustable rotational speed of one or both of the at least two rollers or an adjustable differential rotational speed of the at least two rollers, the at least one multidimensional characteristic map representing a relationship between a processing quality of the grain components and at least three parameters, the at least three parameters comprising at least one input parameter and at least one output parameter, the at least one input parameter varying during a harvesting process and representing a current harvesting process state, the at least one output parameter comprising at least one of the machine parameters of the corn cracker;
determining, during a harvesting process and based on both the at least one input parameter and the optimization model comprising the at least one multidimensional characteristic map, a value of the at least one output parameter in order to achieve a uniform given processing quality of the grain components during the harvesting process; and
causing the adjustment of the at least one of the machine parameters of the corn cracker based on the value of the at least one output parameter in order to achieve the uniform given processing quality of the grain components during the harvesting process.