Patent ID: 8046139
Filing Date: 2011-10-25
Classification: A01B,A01D,G05D

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling several agricultural machine systems during operation on a territory, comprising the steps of determining originally a reference line only by a first machine system; determining by the first machine system, based on the originally determined reference line by the first machine system, an optimized route for working the territory for the first machine system; driving the first machine system along the optimized route; determining the original reference line only by a first machine system by recording a reference path that was driven along with the first machine system; transmitting this original reference line by the first machine system to at least one second machine system; controlling the second machine system based on the original reference line of the first machine system and with consideration for working conditions of the second machine system including crop properties and related consequences; based on the originally determined reference line determined by the first machine system, determining only by the first machine system a further reference line that is transmitted to the second machine system instead of or together with the originally determined reference line that was determined initially by the first machine system, so that the first machine system functions as a master machine and the second machine system receives the originally determined reference line and the further reference line only from the master machine.