With a Gold Agritechnica Innovation Award and four Silver Medals, CLAAS once again emphasises its strength in innovation as the largest family-owned agricultural machinery company. The groundbreaking new products in the fields of balers, maize harvesters, and tractors, along with a collaboration in mechanical chopping, further enhance performance and efficiency while reducing operator workload.
Agritechnica, the world’s premier agricultural machinery trade fair, offers manufacturers an international stage for new innovations and developments once again this year. The DLG’s New Product Committee highlights groundbreaking advancements with the Agritechnica Innovation Awards in gold and silver, along with the Agrifuture Concept Winner Awards. CLAAS, securing an Innovation Award in gold and four silver awards – one in collaboration with Einböck – reaffirms its innovative strength and status as one of the leading names in agricultural technology.
SMART-HILL slope compensation with CULTI CAM
A Silver Innovation medal has been awarded by the DLG Innovation Commission to a cooperative project between Einböck and CLAAS for fully automatic slope compensation in hoeing equipment.
Control of the SMART-HILL system is handled by the high-resolution CLAAS CULTI CAM stereo camera, which analyzes color information and 3D surface models to precisely detect slope inclination.
The integrated job computer processes this data in real time and controls the additional rotating axis of the shift frame via a proportional valve. This ensures that the hoe always remains at a 90° angle to the row, even in slope situations or during sharp steering maneuvers.
This highly precise compensation takes camera-based row detection on slopes to a new level, enabling unprecedented accuracy in mechanical hoeing. For the first time, finger hoes can now be used reliably on slopes. In combination with existing control systems, SMART-HILL provides maximum precision even at higher working speeds and under challenging conditions.
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