Automatically controlled agricultural vehicle for moving across defined area - has on board sensors that detect defined land features and move along specified paths

摘要

The automatically controlled machine of the type used for agricultural purposes can cover a defined area of/and without manual input. The machine, eg tractor, plough, has sensors (5,51) that relate to natural or artificial land reference marks (8,81). The sensors can be of the optically reflective type. The received signals are processed (6) and used to control the power unit (2) and the steering unit (6). ADVANTAGE - Provides automatic control of vehicle.