Method of controlling motor grader and motor grader
AssigneeKomatsu Ltd.
InventorYutaka ONO
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Abstract
A method of controlling a motor grader including a blade provided between a front wheel and a rear wheel which are attached to a vehicular body and a height adjustment mechanism which adjusts a height of the blade includes obtaining current topography in front of the motor grader and adjusting a height of the blade with respect to the front wheel based on the current topography.
Claims15
A method of controlling a motor grader, the motor grader including a blade provided between a front wheel and a rear wheel which are attached to a vehicular body and a height adjustment mechanism which adjusts a height of the blade, the method comprising:
- obtaining current topography in front of the motor grader;
- and
- adjusting a height of the blade with respect to the front wheel based on the current topography.
A motor grader comprising:
- a vehicular body;
- a front wheel and a rear wheel attached to the vehicular body;
- a blade provided between the front wheel and the rear wheel;
- a height adjustment mechanism which adjusts a height of the blade with respect to the front wheel;
- an obtaining unit which obtains current topography in front of the motor grader;
- and
- a control unit which instructs the height adjustment mechanism to adjust a height of the blade with respect to the front wheel based on the current topography.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.