Travel control system for agricultural machine capable of performing remotely-manipulated traveling
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorTakafumi Fujii
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Abstract
A travel control system for an agricultural machine capable of performing remotely-manipulated traveling including a storage to store a position of a permitted area in which the remotely-manipulated traveling is permitted conditionally, and a controller operable in a remote manipulation mode in which travel of the agricultural machine is controlled by remote manipulation. In the remote manipulation mode, when a state of the agricultural machine does not satisfy a condition required for the remotely-manipulated traveling in the permitted area, the controller is configured or programmed to disable a remote manipulation to cause the agricultural machine to travel in the permitted area.
Claims19
A travel control system for an agricultural machine capable of performing remotely-manipulated traveling, the travel control system comprising:
- a storage to store the position of a permitted area in which the remotely-manipulated traveling is permitted conditionally;
- and
- a controller operable in a remote manipulation mode in which travel of the agricultural machine is controlled by remote manipulation;
- wherein
- in the remote manipulation mode, when a state of the agricultural machine, or a type or state of an implement attached to the agricultural machine does not satisfy a condition under which the remotely-manipulated traveling is permitted in the permitted area, the controller is configured or programmed to disable a remote manipulation to cause the agricultural machine to travel in the permitted area;
- the storage is operable to store a position of a forbidden area in which the remotely-manipulated traveling is forbidden;
- and
- the controller is configured or programmed to disable a remote manipulation to cause the agricultural machine to enter the forbidden area.
A travel control method for an agricultural machine capable of performing remotely-manipulated traveling, the method comprising:
- obtaining positional information of a permitted area in which the remotely-manipulated traveling is permitted conditionally and a forbidden area in which the remotely-manipulated traveling is forbidden;
- obtaining information indicating a state of the agricultural machine;
- when, in a remote manipulation mode in which travel of the agricultural machine is controlled by remote manipulation, the state of the agricultural machine, or a type or state of an implement attached to the agricultural machine does not satisfy a condition under which the remotely-manipulated traveling is permitted in the permitted area, disabling a remote manipulation to cause the agricultural machine to travel in the permitted area;
- and
- disabling a remote manipulation to cause the agricultural machine to enter the forbidden area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.