Coordinated Field Route Setting for Multiple Work Vehicles
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Solution Overview
Problem
In scenarios where multiple work vehicles perform different tasks in the same field, the existing methods for generating target routes for automatic traveling often result in inappropriate positional relationships, leading to reduced work efficiency as the tasks are not coordinated effectively.
Innovation Solution
A method that registers the work for each vehicle within specific ranges and generates target routes based on the work information for both vehicles, ensuring coordinated and efficient automatic traveling by synchronizing the routes within the work region.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If target routes are generated individually for each work vehicle based on its own work information, then the route generation process is simple and independent, but the positional relationship between routes becomes inappropriate and work efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the route generation processes of multiple work vehicles into a unified system. The management device collects work information from multiple work vehicles and generates target routes for all vehicles simultaneously, considering the positional relationships between them. This combining approach ensures that routes are coordinated and do not conflict, thereby improving work efficiency while managing complexity through centralized control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the route generation process into distinct phases: collecting work information from individual work vehicles, processing this information centrally to determine positional relationships, and then generating coordinated target routes for each vehicle. This segmentation allows the system to maintain simplicity in data collection while achieving complexity only where necessary for coordination, resolving the contradiction between efficiency and complexity.
2Productivity
If target routes are generated considering the work information of all work vehicles, then the positional relationship between routes is appropriate and work efficiency is improved, but the route generation process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a management device as an intermediary between work vehicles and the route generation system. This intermediary collects work information from multiple vehicles, processes it to understand positional relationships, and generates coordinated target routes. The intermediary approach allows the system to achieve efficient coordinated routing without requiring direct complex interactions between all work vehicles, thereby managing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The management device performs multiple functions: collecting work information from various work vehicles, analyzing positional relationships between different vehicles and their work areas, and generating appropriate target routes for each vehicle. This multi-functional approach consolidates complexity into a single universal system rather than requiring separate complex coordination mechanisms between each pair of work vehicles.
3Productivity
If multiple work vehicles perform different work in the same field simultaneously, then the overall work capacity increases, but the coordination between vehicles becomes difficult and work efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the management device collects work information from multiple work vehicles, analyzes their positional relationships and work areas, and generates coordinated target routes that account for each vehicle's specific tasks. This feedback loop ensures that even when multiple vehicles perform different work simultaneously in the same field, their routes are coordinated to prevent conflicts and maintain ease of operation while preserving increased overall work capacity.
Data Source
AI summary
The setting processing part registers the first work corresponding to the work vehicle that automatically travels in the work range within the field F, and registers the second work corresponding to the work vehicle that automatically travels in the work range within the field F. The generation processing part generates the target route for causing the work vehicle to automatically travel for the work range, based on work information of the first work, and generates the target route for causing the work vehicle to automatically travel for the work range, based on work information of each of the first work and the second work, in a case where each of the first work and the second work is registered.