“…For this purpose, a number of system engineering approaches have been developed and applied to the operational management of individual tasks involved in the harvesting process. Previous work includes, area coverage planning (Ali, Verlinden, & van Oudheusden, 2009), route planning methods for transport units (Bochtis, Sørensen, & Vougioukas, 2010;Jensen, Bochtis, Sørensen, Blas, & Lykkegaard, 2012), the sequential scheduling of harvesting and handling operations Orfanou et al, 2013), simulation models for harvesting cost prediction (de Toro, Gunnarsson, Lundin, & Jonsson, 2012), and performance evaluation and documentation systems (Amiama, Bueno, Alvarez, & Pereira, 2008). However, the majority of the developed models cannot be applied to all cropping systems.…”