Automatic Travel System

Abstract

To enter a desired travel route in scheduled travel routes including a plurality of travel routes, and start working from the desired travel route. An automatic travel system is provided with: a route generation unit for generating scheduled travel routes including a plurality of travel routes on which a working vehicle is caused to automatically run; an automatic travel control unit capable of causing the working vehicle to automatically run along the scheduled travel routes; an information acquisition unit for acquiring positional information and orientation information of the working vehicle; and a specifying unit for specifying, before automatic travel is started by the working vehicle, an automatic travel candidate route on which the working vehicle can start the automatic travel. On the basis of the positional information and the orientation information of the working vehicle which are acquired by the information acquisition unit, the specifying unit sets a candidate specification area ahead of the working vehicle and in the rear thereof, and specifies, out of the plurality of travel routes, a travel route included in the candidate specification area as an automatic travel candidate route.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.