Abstract: A device for detecting a windrow deposited on an agricultural area to be worked is disclosed. The device includes a camera configured to generate an image of the windrow deposited on the agricultural area and a computing unit that is configured to use artificial intelligence in order to evaluate the image. The artificial intelligence may be configured to identify a harvested material windrow in the image. The computing unit may be configured to determine a position of the harvested material windrow on the agricultural area to be worked.

Abstract: A method for monitoring autonomous agricultural production machines is disclosed. The autonomous agricultural production machine autonomously performs an agricultural job. When an anomaly occurs, the autonomous agricultural production machine performs a response routine, interrupting the performance of the agricultural job. The autonomous agricultural production machine senses anomaly data during and/or after the response routine and transmits the anomaly data to a remote monitoring center in a reporting routine that a user may access in the remote monitoring center. The remote monitoring center generates, based on the anomaly data, a control instruction and transmits the control instruction to the autonomous agricultural production machine to execute in order to further respond to the anomaly and thereafter continue to perform the agricultural job.

Abstract: A method and a system for deployment planning and coordinating a vehicle fleet comprising a plurality of agricultural work vehicles is disclosed. Different agricultural work processes may be performed on a field with the work vehicles having a work unit for performing at least one of the agricultural work processes. At least one work vehicle of the vehicle fleet is operated autonomously. Further, the database-driven management system may generate the deployment plan. For example, while planning a particular agricultural work process comprising a sequence of work steps, the work vehicles in the vehicle fleet are coordinated with one another by assigning at least one autonomous work vehicle to a respective work step of the agricultural work process with operational parameters being transmitted to the autonomous work vehicle in order to perform the assigned respective work step.

Abstract: A method and a system for monitoring the operation of at least one autonomous agricultural production machine is disclosed. The method comprises collecting data representing the operating parameters and environmental parameters of the autonomous agricultural production machine and detecting an irregularity based on the data. Once an irregularity is determined, the collected data are transmitted to a database and saved there. The irregularity is identified by processing the collected data in an analysis routine, and an instruction is generated for switching the autonomous agricultural production machine from a safe operating state to a normal operating state depending on the identified irregularity, and the instruction is executed.

Abstract: A swarm assistance system for autonomous agricultural universal production machines is disclosed. The swarm assistance system is integrated into an agricultural work network. The agricultural work network connects autonomous agricultural universal production machines as providers of agricultural jobs and customers of agricultural jobs with each other and with the swarm assistance system. The autonomous agricultural universal production machines are configured to perform a plurality of different agricultural jobs by being equipped with changing work assemblies. The swarm assistance system receives request data relating to a requested agricultural job from the customers, matches the request data with capacity data of at least one of the agricultural universal production machines and, based on the result of the matching, rents at least one agricultural universal production machine to perform the requested agricultural job.

Abstract: An assistance system based on electronic data exchange for enabling an autonomous vehicle to act as an autonomous agricultural production machine and an autonomous agricultural production machine is disclosed. The assistance system is configured to plan the deployment of at least one autonomous vehicle, to transmit the information required for the deployment to the autonomous vehicle, to at least partially control the autonomous vehicle during working mode and to monitor the working mode of the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: An agricultural working machine with a driver assistance system is disclosed. The driver assistance system controls driving functions of the agricultural working machine and at least one working assembly of the agricultural working machine in the context of performing a work process. The driver assistance system accesses a set of rules in the form of control strategies to control the at least one work assembly according to a specific control strategy. The driver assistance system includes an interface to communicate with an external computer unit, which is remote from the agricultural working machine, and through which data can be exchanged between the driver assistance system and the external computer unit. For example, the driver assistance system receives data from the external computer unit via the interface during the work process of the agricultural working machine, and selects the control strategy for performing the work process based on the data.

Abstract: An agricultural working machine with a driver assistance system is disclosed. The driver assistance system controls driving functions of the agricultural working machine and at least one working assembly of the agricultural working machine in the context of performing a work process. The driver assistance system accesses a set of rules in the form of control strategies to control the at least one work assembly according to a specific control strategy. The driver assistance system includes an interface to communicate with an external computer unit, which is remote from the agricultural working machine, and through which data can be exchanged between the driver assistance system and the external computer unit. For example, the driver assistance system receives data from the external computer unit via the interface during the work process of the agricultural working machine, and selects the control strategy for performing the work process based on the data.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical transmission system comprising transmitter and receiver devices and comprising automatic optical signal level configuration means which provide the same fixed output signal level for a received signal level range, and the system comprising at least one automatic self-level unit in the transmitter device and at least one automatic self-level unit in the receiver device.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical transmission system comprising transmitter and receiver devices and comprising automatic optical signal level configuration means which provide the same fixed output signal level for a received signal level range, and the system comprising at least one automatic self-level unit in the transmitter device and at least one automatic self-level unit in the receiver device.

Abstract: Sanitary applicances with a casing, such as bath tubs, shower trays or washbasins, are glass fiber- and asbestos-free, and are further characterized in that the reinforcing material is 1.5 to 10 mm thick and consists of one or two layers. The one layer or the first layer of a multilayered reinforcement is obtained by hardening a first polylmerizable, cole-hardenable, reactive (meth)acrylate system sprayed on the back of the acrylic glass moulding. The (meth)acrylate system contains as filler hollow microparticles, preferably made of plastics, filled with an inert gas. The composition of the (meth)acrylate system is defined by the invention. The disclosed sanitary appliances meet all requirements of the DIN EN 19 norm and can be recycled.

Abstract: Backed sanitaryware, such as baths, shower trays, wash basins and the like comprise an acrylic polymer moulding, the reverse of which is reinforced with a polymer material containing neither glass fiber nor asbestos, which material is firmly bonded to the acrylic polymer moulding, wherein the reinforcement is obtainable by curing a polymerizable, cold-curing reactive (meth)acrylate system sprayed onto the reverse of the acrylic polymer moulding, which system contains, in addition to further constituents, A) as polymerizable monomers: 1 A) a) (meth)acrylate  30-100 wt. % a1) methyl (meth)acrylate   0-99.8 wt. % a2) C2-C4 (meth)acrylate   0-99.8 wt. % a3) ≧C5 (meth)acrylate   0-50 wt. % a4) polyfunctional   0-50 wt. % (meth)acrylates a5) urethane (meth)acrylates 0.2-50 wt. % b) comonomers   0-70 wt. % b1) vinyl aromatics   0-35 wt.

Abstract: Backed sanitaryware, such as baths, shower trays, wash basins and the like comprise an acrylic polymer moulding, the reverse of which is reinforced with a polymer material containing neither glass fibre nor asbestos, which material is firmly bonded to the acrylic polymer moulding, wherein the reinforcement is obtainable by curing a polymerisable, cold-curing reactive (meth)acrylate system sprayed onto the reverse of the acrylic polymer moulding, which system contains, in addition to further constituents, A) as polymerisable monomers: A)  a) (meth)acrylate 30-100 wt. % a1) methyl (meth)acrylate   0-99.8 wt. % a2) C2—C4(meth)acrylate   0-99.8 wt. % a3) ≧C5 (meth)acrylate 0-50 wt. % a4) polyfunctional (meth)acrylates 0-50 wt. % a5) urethane (meth)acrylates 0.2-50 wt. %    b) comonomers 0-70 wt. % b1) vinyl aromatics 0-35 wt.