United States Patent Application Publication

Authors

John H. Posselius, Ephrata, PA
Christopher A. Foster, Lititz, PA
Santosh Pitla, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Scott A. Shearer, Hilliard, OHFollow
Joe D. Luck, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Michael P. Sama, University of KentuckyFollow
Rodrigo S. Zandonadi, Sinop (BR)

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

11-13-2014

Citation

Pub. No.: US 2014/0336818 A1

Comments

U.S. Government Work

Abstract

A multiple robot control architecture including a plurality of robotic agricultural machines including a first and second robotic agricultural machine. Each robotic agricultural machine including at least one controller configured to implement a plurality of finite state machines Within an individual robot control architecture (IRCA) and a global information module (GIM) communicatively coupled to the IRCA. The GIMs of the first and second robotic agricultural machines being configured to cooperate to cause said first robotic agricultural machine and said second agricultural machine to perform at least one agricultural task.