Silver Innovation Award for Tractor Assisted Guidance System

27th September 202524th September 2025 webmaster Deutz Fahr, TAGS

An Agritechnica Innovation Silver medal is conferred on an innovation for an existing product such that a significant improvement in functionality and process is achieved. The product does not fully meet the criteria for the award of an Innovation Gold Medal. Key criteria include:

Relevance at farm level
Work load reduction and enhanced work quality
Improved reliability
Positive impact on environmental sustainability and energy efficiency

The camera systems that have become increasingly widespread on the agricultural market so far serve above all to cover blind spots that are not visible from the driver’s seat or to provide support when crossing roads. Initial, basic solutions for detecting obstacles are available, but – in contrast to the automotive sector – there is still a lack of integrated systems that enable additional functions requiring intervention into the machine’s control system.

DEUTZ-FAHR is the first manufacturer to introduce ‘Advanced Driver Assistance Systems’ (ADAS) for tractors. These driver assistance systems called ‘DEUTZ-FAHR TAGS – Tractor Assisted Guidance System’ will be installed for the first time in the new model series in the upper 6-cylinder medium class, which will be presented at Agritechnica 2025.

The standard package includes the ‘lane keeping assistant’, ‘cornering assistant’ and ‘object/person recognition’ functions, which are familiar from passenger cars and lorries. With the additional ‘Advanced’ package, these can be extended by adaptive cruise control with collision warning and traffic sign recognition.

The assistance functions should give consideration to tractor-specific features. These include the presence of front- and rear-mounted implements on the tractor itself, driving on side roads without markings or following closely behind forage harvesters when harvesting maize fields. The ADAS functions are based on a completely new electronics architecture as well as various sensor and camera systems.

With the DEUTZ-FAHR TAGS – Tractor Assisted Guidance System concept, DEUTZ-FAHR is making a contribution to safety when travelling on the road and manoeuvring on the farm. At the same time, various prerequisites are being established for autonomous functions in the future.