Override of autonomous functions of a machine
AssigneeCaterpillar Paving Products Inc.
InventorsTimothy O'Donnell, Nicholas A Oetken, Kyle Hendricks, Robert Jason McGee
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Abstract
An autonomous machine control system is disclosed. The autonomous machine control system may include a controller configured to: cause an initiation of an autonomous mode of a machine, the autonomous mode providing automatic control of a propulsion operation, a steering operation, and a work operation of the machine; determine that automatic control of the work operation is to be disabled in the autonomous mode of the machine; and cause automatic control of the work operation to be disabled in the autonomous mode of the machine, while automatic control of the propulsion operation and the steering operation is enabled in the autonomous mode of the machine.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- causing an initiation of an autonomous mode of a machine,
- the autonomous mode providing automatic control of a vibration of a drum of the machine and at least one of automatic control of a propulsion operation or automatic control of a steering operation;
- determining that the automatic control, of the vibration of the drum, is to be disabled;
- and
- initiating, based on determining that the automatic control, of the vibration of the drum, is to be disabled, a manual control of the vibration of the drum while at least one of the automatic control of the propulsion operation or the automatic control of the steering operation remains enabled.
An autonomous machine control system, comprising:
- a controller configured to:
- cause an initiation of an autonomous mode of a machine,
- the autonomous mode providing automatic control of a vibration of a drum of the machine and at least one of automatic control of a propulsion operation or automatic control of a steering operation;
- determine that the automatic control, of the vibration of the drum, is to be disabled;
- and
- cause the automatic control, of the vibration of the drum, to be disabled while the vibration of the drum remains enabled and at least one of the automatic control of the propulsion operation or the automatic control of the steering operation remains enabled based on determining that the automatic control, of the vibration of the drum, is to be disabled.
A machine, comprising:
- a drum;
- a propulsion system;
- a steering system;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- cause an initiation of an autonomous mode of the machine,
- the autonomous mode providing automatic control of a vibration of the drum and at least one of automatic control of the propulsion system or automatic control of the steering system;
- determine that the automatic control, of the vibration of the drum, is to be disabled;
- and
- initiate, based on determining that the automatic control, of the vibration of the drum, is to be disabled, a manual control of the vibration of the drum while at least one of the automatic control of the propulsion system or the automatic control of the steering system remains enabled.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.