Patent ID: 8406964
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
1. A driver assistance system for an agricultural working machine, in particular a combine harvester, comprising a large number of working mechanisms, an arithmetic logic unit, and at least one display unit, in which the arithmetic logic unit processes information generated by machine-internal sensor systems, external information, and information that is storable in the arithmetic logic unit, wherein the driver assistance system overcomes, with consideration for at least a selection of the available information, critical functions of the agricultural working machine in that efficiency parameters of the agricultural working machine are optimized using interactive, natural-language communication between an operator of the agricultural working machine and the driver assistance system; and wherein in response to prompting by the driver assistance system, the operator selects an efficiency parameter to be optimized and the driver assistance system suggests an optimized working parameter for a working mechanism depending on the efficiency parameter and the quality criteria associated with the selected efficiency parameter; wherein the operator initiates the adjustment of the optimized working parameter on the working mechanism by accepting or rejecting the suggestion; wherein if the suggested optimized working parameter is accepted, the agricultural working machine runs through a brief adjustment phase and the change to the efficiency parameter and/or quality criteria effected thereby is visualized in the display unit and the operator is prompted to evaluate the quality of the change of the efficiency parameter and/or the quality criterium through a visualization on the display unit of the natural language terms “better”, “worse”, or “same”; and wherein if the suggested solution or change to the working parameter is rejected, or if the quality is evaluated as being “worse” or “same”, the driver assistance system suggests that an alternative working parameter to be optimized.