CONTROL DEVICE FOR AUTONOMOUSLY TRAVELLING WORK VEHICLE

• Main Author: YAMAMURA MAKOTO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 05.10.2017
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CONTROLLING; FISHING; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; MOWING; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES ORIMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; REGULATING; SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TRAPPING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for an autonomously travelling work vehicle that facilitates the setting of a user's work time and allows the work to be performed appropriately.SOLUTION: A control device for an autonomously travelling work vehicle creates a map in which a plurality of cells are arrayed on a work area (S10-S14), calculates an area S of the work area based on the created map (S16), calculates a required work time per unit period according to preset first characteristics on the calculated area of the work area (S20), presents information from the created map on the work area, the calculated area of the work area, and required work time, and prompts the inputting of a desired work time and a desired work time point desired by the user (S22), and calculating a target work schedule by assigning the required work time to the unit period according to preset second characteristics based on the user's desired work time and desired work time point input according to the prompting, and controls the work according to the target work schedule (S24 and S26).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 10 【課題】ユーザの作業時間の設定を容易にして作業を適正に行えるようにした自律走行作業車の制御装置を提供する。【解決手段】作業エリアについて複数のセルを配列してなるマップを生成し（Ｓ１０からＳ１４）、生成されたマップに基づいて作業エリアの面積Ｓを算出し（Ｓ１６）、算出された作業エリアの面積について予め設定された第１の特性に従って単位期間当たりの必要作業時間を算出し（Ｓ２０）、生成された作業エリアのマップと算出された作業エリアの面積と必要作業時間とから情報をユーザに提示し、ユーザの希望する希望作業時間と希望作業時刻の入力を促し（Ｓ２２）、それに応じて入力されたユーザの希望作業時間と希望作業時刻に基づき、予め設定された第２の特性に従って必要作業時間を単位期間に割り当てて目標作業日程を算出すると共に、それに従って作業を制御する（Ｓ２４，Ｓ２６）。【選択図】図１０