Patent ID: 8650862

Claim:
An agricultural machine, comprising an internal combustion engine having an exhaust-system branch; a particulate filter disposed in said exhaust-system branch of said internal combustion engine; a control unit controlling a heat source in a regeneration phase in such a manner that a temperature is reached in said particulate filter that is required for its regeneration, and to abort an on-going regeneration if at least one operating parameter of the agricultural machine that influences the regeneration deviates from a setpoint value; a control device predicting a time period in which it is likely possible to hold the operating parameter to the setpoint value and to start the regeneration when this time period begins; and at least one first and at least one second consumer driven by said internal combustion engine, wherein said control device distributes a power output by said internal combustion engine that results by holding the operating parameter constant during the regeneration between said consumers.