System for integrating hours of service (HOS) with a vehicle's navigation system

    公开(公告)号:US10260893B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-16

    申请号:US15273436

    申请日:2016-09-22

    Applicant: TRIMBLE INC.

    Abstract: A transportation management system that includes tools for generating an optimized trip plan that can be updated, such as based on driver input, during implementation of a planned trip. The system includes a comprehensive trip optimization tool that generates a trip plan with fuel stop and rest stop optimization. The system includes tools calculating estimated time of arrival (ETA) and projected time of availability (PTA) for the driver, and these tools are adapted to provide the ETA and PTA for the entire trip (rather than only providing an ETA for the next stop). The system further includes tools accepting driver input and/or allowing driver manipulation of a dispatched trip plan such as using pre-filtered alternatives for fuel stops or rest stops or routes, e.g., based on stored driver preferences, that may be less optimal than those in the original trip plan but still viable.

    Agricultural drainage design based on soil modeling

    公开(公告)号:US10255384B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-09

    申请号:US16002972

    申请日:2018-06-07

    Applicant: Trimble Inc.

    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques might provide for designing and/or implementing a drainage system for an agricultural area, based at least in part on three-dimensional soil modeling. In some embodiments, a computer system may designate one or more locations for installing one or more main drainage pipes within the agricultural area, based at least in part based at least in part on optimization of location and/or costs. The optimization may be based at least in part on the location of at least one main drainage area, and the respective slope, depth to bedrock, and saturated hydraulic conductivity of soil at each of the one or more locations.

    Global navigation satellite system receiver convergence selection

    公开(公告)号:US10234565B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-19

    申请号:US14619829

    申请日:2015-02-11

    Applicant: Trimble Inc.

    Abstract: A method of implementing convergence selection of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver is disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a GNSS receiver which is coupled with a mobile machine is shut down. The GNSS receiver is in a converged state at shut down. A movement sensor is monitored to determine if net movement of a GNSS antenna coupled with the mobile machine exceeds a threshold net movement parameter while the GNSS receiver is shut down. Upon power up of the GNSS receiver, a shorter convergence algorithm is initiated in response to determining that the threshold net movement parameter has not been exceeded and a longer convergence algorithm is initiated in response to determining that the threshold net movement parameter has been exceeded.

    AUTOMATIC POINT LAYOUT AND STAKING SYSTEM
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180328729A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-15

    申请号:US15591213

    申请日:2017-05-10

    Applicant: Trimble, Inc.

    Abstract: An automatic point layout system identifies points and their coordinates using vertical planes of laser light. Laser controllers aim vertical laser light planes that will cross at any desired point on the jobsite floor. The user views a virtual jobsite illustration on a remote controller touchscreen display, and selects a point of interest. Commands are sent to the two laser controllers, which aim their laser transmitters at that point of interest, showing visible laser light lines that intersect directly at the point of interest, for staking. The user selects a second point of interest on the touchscreen display, commanding the laser transmitters to rotate to a new set of coordinates. The user performs these functions seamlessly; the remote controller allows the user to quickly move from one point of interest to the next, without having changing to any other operating mode between the identifying and staking of each new point.

    NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM POSITIONING WITH ENHANCED SATELLITE-SPECIFIC CORRECTION INFORMATION

    公开(公告)号:US20180267171A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-20

    申请号:US15985196

    申请日:2018-05-21

    Applicant: Trimble Inc.

    Abstract: The invention relates to methods, notably carried out by global or regional navigation satellite system (NSS) receivers, which involve receiving satellite-specific, nadir-angle dependent correction information associated with each of at least two NSS satellites among a plurality of NSS satellites. The correction information is useful to correct observed NSS signals, so as to mitigate the effects of satellite-specific, nadir-angle dependent biases in the NSS signals, and thus improve the performance of position determination systems. The invention also relates to methods for generating such correction information, to methods for designing a satellite, to NSS receivers, to apparatuses for generating correction information to be sent to the receivers, and to computer programs and storage mediums.

    Transparently achieving auto-guidance of a mobile machine

    公开(公告)号:US10048693B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-14

    申请号:US15178986

    申请日:2016-06-10

    Applicant: Trimble Inc.

    Abstract: A path of travel used by an autopilot operation system for auto-guidance of a mobile machine is defined, transparently to a human operator, in response to the human operator engaging and disengaging operation of an implement coupled with the mobile machine. The auto-guidance of the mobile machine is activated, transparently to the human operator, in response to the human operator engaging the implement a second time.

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