Multi-Machine Route Planning for Precise Work Region Coverage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing work systems with multiple work machines struggle to set travel routes with high accuracy, leading to inefficiencies in coordinated work operations.
Innovation Solution
An arithmetic device that sets travel routes for each work machine with a work start point, end point, and intermediate points on a map, ensuring a predetermined width and enclosing the work region with multiple travel routes to enhance accuracy and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple work machines conduct work in cooperation, then work efficiency is improved, but travel route setting accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the work region into multiple segments by setting intermediate points on the outer edge, creating multiple travel routes that enclose the work region. Each work machine is assigned a specific travel route segment, allowing coordinated operation while maintaining precise route definition through systematic division of the overall work area.
2Manufacturing precision
If travel routes are set with high accuracy, then work precision is improved, but route complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary route planning by setting work start points, end points, and intermediate points on the outer edge before actual work execution. The arithmetic device pre-calculates multiple travel routes that enclose the work region with predetermined width, allowing machines to follow predetermined paths without real-time complex calculations, thus maintaining precision while reducing operational complexity.
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AI summary
An arithmetic device configured to perform an arithmetic process on a travel route for each of a plurality of work machines capable of conducting a work in a work region, the device comprising an acquisition unit for acquiring map information of the work region, and a setting unit for setting, for each work machine, a work start point, a work end point, and at least one intermediate point on an outer edge portion of the work region, and for setting, on the map information, the travel route from the work start point to the work end point to pass through the at least one intermediate point, wherein the travel route has a predetermined width, and a plurality of travel routes respectively corresponding to the plurality of work machines enclose the work region with the predetermined width.