A method to enable a human operator to have a piece of farmland cultivated, and a method and system for generating a cultivation plan

Abstract

The present invention pertains to a method to enable a human operator to have a piece of farmland cultivated, the method comprising providing an autonomous agricultural vehicle that is able to perform an agricultural operation, providing a processing unit to generate a cultivation plan for the piece of farmland, which plan comprises multiple distinct paths that spatially extend over the piece of farmland, in which plan the piece of farmland is divided into a headland section and a mainland section, and controlling the autonomous agricultural vehicle such that it autonomously crosses the farmland by moving over the said multiple distinct paths, while performing the agricultural operation in order to cultivate the piece of farmland, wherein before the cultivation plan is generated, the human operator is provided the option to determine that the headland section extends along the complete outer boundary of the piece of farmland. The invention also pertains to a method and system for generating a cultivation plan for such an autonomous vehicle. (Fig. 3C)