Harvester Grain Quality Graphing Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile agricultural harvesting machines face challenges in setting and displaying grain processing quality limits, as existing systems lack user-friendly interfaces for adjusting limits and displaying grain processing quality characteristics in relation to other performance metrics, leading to suboptimal grain separation and increased grain loss.
Innovation Solution
A mobile agricultural harvester equipped with sensors and a display system that generates an interface showing current and historical values of grain processing quality characteristics, allowing operators to adjust limits interactively, and integrates performance metrics like harvest rate and yield for improved control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If grain processing quality limits are set and displayed in existing systems, then grain separation quality can be improved, but the system lacks user-friendly interfaces for adjusting limits and displaying characteristics in relation to other performance metrics
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides real-time feedback by displaying grain processing quality characteristics (grain loss, grain brokenness, grain cleanliness) on a graphical user interface, allowing operators to monitor and adjust limits during harvesting operations. The interface shows current values compared to set limits and provides visual feedback when limits are exceeded.
Solution Approach 2:
A graphical user interface acts as an intermediary between the sensor data and the operator, translating complex sensor measurements into visual displays showing grain processing quality characteristics. The interface includes elements for setting limits, viewing current values, and receiving alerts, making the system easier to operate.
2Loss of substance
If grain processing quality characteristics are monitored in real-time, then grain loss can be reduced, but the system complexity increases without integrated display of performance metrics
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical user interface serves multiple functions: displaying grain processing quality characteristics, showing current sensor values, comparing against set limits, providing visual alerts when limits are exceeded, and allowing operator input for limit adjustments. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate systems for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The system combines grain processing quality monitoring with other performance metric displays in a single integrated interface. The interface merges information about grain loss, grain brokenness, grain cleanliness, and limit status into one cohesive display, reducing overall system complexity.
3Manufacturing precision
If limits for grain processing quality are set and enforced, then grain processing quality improves, but the system lacks integration with other performance metrics like harvest rate and yield
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical user interface is designed to display multiple performance metrics simultaneously, including grain processing quality characteristics and other harvest performance data. This allows operators to monitor and adjust grain processing limits while seeing the impact on overall harvest performance.
Data Source
AI summary
A mobile agricultural harvester comprises one or more sensors configured to detect a grain processing quality characteristic and generate sensor data indicative of the detected grain processing quality characteristic, a display screen, one or more processors, memory, and computer executable instructions, stored in the memory, and executable by the one or more processors. The computer executable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, configuring the one or more processors to generate, on the display screen, an interface comprising a limit interface display element indicative of a limit of the grain processing quality characteristic and a characteristic value interface display element comprising a graph indicative of values of the grain processing quality characteristic over time.