Patent ID: 8924099

Claim:
A method for using information about a determined location or heading of one or more fiducials of a trailing vehicle in an implement train based on information about a rear hitch of a leading vehicle of the implement train, the method comprising: identifying, using a processor circuit, a destination location for a rear hitch of a leading vehicle; identifying, using the processor circuit, a first location and a first heading of a trailing vehicle; determining, using the processor circuit, a destination heading of the trailing vehicle when the rear hitch of the leading vehicle coincides with a front hitch of the trailing vehicle and the destination location, wherein determining the destination heading includes: identifying a linear distance between the first location of the trailing vehicle and the destination location for the rear hitch of the leading vehicle, determining an intermediate location ahead of the first location of the trailing vehicle by less than the linear distance and in the direction of the first heading of the trailing vehicle, and determining the destination heading of the trailing vehicle, the destination heading corresponding to a direction of a shortest path from the intermediate location to the destination location for the rear hitch of the leading vehicle; determining, using the processor circuit, a location of one or more fiducials on the trailing vehicle, the determining using the destination location for the rear hitch of the leading vehicle and the destination heading of the trailing vehicle; and updating an operational status of at least one implement, the implement corresponding to the determined location of one of the fiducials on the trailing vehicle, and the updating the operational status including initiating or inhibiting release of an agricultural product from the at least one implement.