Drive system for unmanned vehicle and method of drive control of the same

An unmanned vehicle drive system for causing an unmanned vehicle to travel to a left loading point or a right loading point along a travel route in accordance with a travel command, the left loading point or the right loading point being set in correspondence with whether the direction of approach of the unmanned vehicle to a loading point where a working machine of a loading machine in a loading site performs loading onto the unmanned vehicle is leftward or rightward with respect to the loading machine, comprising:

• boundary line generation means for, on the basis of information about the features of the loading site, generating a boundary line for discriminating whether the working machine of the loading machine has been positioned on the side of the left loading point or positioned on the side of the right loading point;
• detection means for detecting the orientation or position of the working machine of the loading machine;
• discrimination means for, in correlation between the orientation or position of the working machine that has been detected by the detection means and the direction or position of the boundary line, discriminating whether the working machine of the loading machine has been positioned on the side of the left loading point or positioned on the side of the right loading point;
• travel command instruction means for instructing a travel command;
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• travel control means for, when a travel command is instructed by the travel command instruction means, giving a travel command to the unmanned vehicle which is to perform loading at the loading point on the side which has been determined through the discrimination means.

A drive control method for an unmanned vehicle drive system for causing an unmanned vehicle to travel to a left loading point or a right loading point along a travel route in accordance with a travel command, the left loading point or the right loading point being set in correspondence with whether the direction of approach of the unmanned vehicle to a loading point where a working machine of a loading machine performs loading onto the unmanned vehicle is leftward or rightward with respect to the loading machine, comprising:

• a boundary line generation step of generating a boundary line for discriminating whether the working machine of the loading machine has been positioned on the side of the left loading point or positioned on the side of the right loading point;
• a travel command instruction step of instructing a travel command;
• a discrimination step of, in correlation between the orientation or position of the working machine when the travel command is instructed and the direction or position of the boundary line, discriminating whether the working machine of the loading machine has been positioned on the side of the left loading point or positioned on the side of the right loading point;
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• a travel control step of giving a travel command to the unmanned vehicle which is to perform loading at the loading point on the side which has been determined.

An unmanned vehicle drive system for causing an unmanned vehicle to travel to a left loading point or a right loading point along a travel route in accordance with a travel command, the left loading point or the right loading point being set in correspondence with whether the direction of approach of the unmanned vehicle to a loading point where a working machine of a loading machine performs loading onto the unmanned vehicle is leftward or rightward with respect to the loading machine, comprising:

• boundary line generation means for, on the basis of information about the direction of approach to the left or right loading point of the unmanned vehicle, generating a boundary line for discriminating whether the working machine of the loading machine has been positioned on the side of the left loading point or positioned on the side of the right loading point;
• detection means for detecting the orientation or position of the working machine of the loading machine;
• discrimination means for, in correlation between the orientation or position of the working machine that has been detected by the detection means and the direction or position of the boundary line, discriminating whether the working machine of the loading machine has been positioned on the side of the left loading point or positioned on the side of the right loading point;
• loading point position setting instruction means for defining the position of the loading point to instruct position setting of the loading point;
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• travel command generation means for, when the loading point position setting instruction means instructs position setting of the loading point, setting the position of the loading point on the side which has been determined through the discrimination means, as the defined position, and generate a travel route to the loading point.

An unmanned vehicle drive system for causing an unmanned vehicle to travel to a left loading point or a right loading point along a travel route in accordance with a travel command, the left loading point or the right loading point being set in correspondence with whether the direction of approach of the unmanned vehicle to a loading point where a working machine of a loading machine in a loading site performs loading onto the unmanned vehicle is leftward or rightward with respect to the loading machine, comprising:

• boundary line generation means for generating, on the basis of information about the features of the loading site, a boundary line for discriminating whether the working machine of the loading machine has been positioned on the side of the left loading point or positioned on the side of the right loading point;
• detection means for detecting the orientation or position of the working machine of the loading machine;
• discrimination means for, in correlation between the orientation or position of the working machine that has been detected by the detection means and the direction or position of the boundary line, discriminating whether the working machine of the loading machine has been positioned on the side of the left loading point or positioned on the side of the right loading point;
• loading point position setting instruction means for defining the position of the loading point to instruct position setting of the loading point;
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• travel command generation means for, when the loading point position setting instruction means instructs position setting of the loading point, setting the position of the loading point on the side which has been determined through the discrimination means, as the defined position, and generate a travel route to the loading point.

A drive control method for unmanned vehicle drive system for causing an unmanned vehicle to travel to a left loading point or a right loading point along a travel route in accordance with a travel command, the left loading point or the right loading point being set in correspondence with whether the direction of approach of the unmanned vehicle to a loading point where a working machine of a loading machine performs loading onto the unmanned vehicle is leftward or rightward with respect to the loading machine, comprising:

• a boundary line generation step of generating a boundary line for discriminating whether the working machine of the loading machine has been positioned on the side of the left loading point or positioned on the side of the right loading point;
• a loading point position setting instruction step of defining the position of the loading point to instruct position setting of the loading point;
• a discrimination step of, in correlation between the orientation or position of the working machine when position setting of the loading point is instructed and the direction or position of the boundary line, discriminating whether the working machine of the loading machine has been positioned on the side of the left loading point or positioned on the side of the right loading point;
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• a travel command generation step of setting the position of the loading point on the side which has been determined, as the defined position, and generating a travel route to the set loading point.