Filled: video data based fill level detection of agricultural bulk freight

For automation of a continuous overloading process between two vehicles in motion, two information are essential. On the one hand there is the relative position between the vehicles to be known. On the other hand the loading point within the load space of the transport car has to be determined. Often a non optimal usage of the transport capacity is obtained without moving the overload swivel. In order to optimize the filling process by moving load point the distribution of the freight with in the load space has to be measured during the overload process. In this article the Institut für Regelungstechnik of the Technische Universität in Braunschweig introduces the system FILLED for video data based fill level detection of agricultural bulk freight such as chaffed corn or grass.