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US 12,585,290 B2Granted
Unmanned vehicle, system of controlling unmanned vehicle, and method of controlling unmanned vehicle
AssigneeKomatsu Ltd.
InventorRyota Amano
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Abstract
An unmanned vehicle includes: a travel device; an obstacle sensor; a host path storage unit that stores a host path; a travel control unit that controls the travel device based on the host path; an oncoming path storage unit that stores an oncoming path to be given to an oncoming vehicle; and an obstacle presence/absence determination unit that determines whether or not an obstacle is located on the oncoming path based on detection data from the obstacle sensor.
Claims20
An unmanned vehicle traveling on a host path, comprising:
- a vehicle body;
- a travel device;
- an obstacle sensor disposed on the vehicle body;
- a processor, wherein the processor:
- stores a host path;
- controls the travel device based on the host path;
- stores an oncoming path to be given to an oncoming vehicle, wherein a detection range of the obstacle sensor includes the oncoming path;
- and
- determines whether or not an obstacle is located on the oncoming path while traveling on the host path based on detection data of the detection range of the obstacle sensor including the oncoming path.
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A system of controlling an unmanned vehicle comprising
- a processor, wherein the processor:
- generates a host path to be given to a first unmanned vehicle;
- generates an oncoming path to be given to a second unmanned vehicle, which is an oncoming vehicle of the first unmanned vehicle;
- transmits the host path and the oncoming path to the first unmanned vehicle;
- transmits the oncoming path to the second unmanned vehicle, wherein a detection range of an obstacle sensor provided in the first unmanned vehicle includes the oncoming path, and
- determines whether or not an obstacle is located on the oncoming path while traveling on the host path based on detection data of the detection ranges of the obstacle sensor including the oncoming path.
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A method of controlling an unmanned vehicle, comprising:
- giving each of a host path and an oncoming path to a first unmanned vehicle;
- giving the oncoming path to a second unmanned vehicle, which is an oncoming vehicle of the first unmanned vehicle;
- causing the first unmanned to travel along the host path;
- causing the second unmanned vehicle to travel along the oncoming path, wherein a detection range of an obstacle sensor provided in the first unmanned vehicle includes the oncoming path;
- and
- determining whether or not an obstacle is located on the oncoming path while traveling on the host path based on detection data of the detection range of the obstacle sensor including the oncoming path.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.