Multi-Vehicle Route Setting for Coordinated Field Work Ranges
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Solution Overview
Problem
In existing systems, when multiple work vehicles perform different tasks in the same field, the generation of target routes for automatic traveling often results in inappropriate positional relationships, leading to reduced work efficiency as the tasks are not coordinated effectively.
Innovation Solution
A method that registers specific works for each work vehicle within defined ranges and generates target routes based on work information for both vehicles, ensuring coordinated automatic travel and improved efficiency by considering the work range and interactions between tasks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If target routes are individually generated for each work vehicle, then each vehicle can operate independently, 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 generation processing part creates target routes for different vehicles while considering their positional relationships and task sequences, ensuring that routes are coordinated rather than independently generated. This resolving the contradiction by combining route planning into a single coordinated process that maintains both independence and coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by generating all target routes for multiple work vehicles in advance, before actual work begins. The setting processing part registers work information for each vehicle, and the generation processing part creates coordinated routes based on this registered information, ensuring that positional relationships are optimized before execution. This preliminary coordinated planning prevents inefficiencies during actual operation.
2Device complexity
If target routes are generated based only on individual work information, then route generation is simple, but the positional relationship between routes is inappropriate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines work information from multiple work vehicles into a unified data set. The setting processing part registers work information for each vehicle, and the generation processing part uses this combined information to generate routes with appropriate positional relationships. This merging approach increases complexity slightly but dramatically improves positional precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the input parameters for route generation from individual vehicle data to comprehensive multi-vehicle work information. By registering and utilizing work information from multiple vehicles simultaneously, the generation processing part can adjust route parameters to achieve appropriate positional relationships, transforming the generation process from simple to precise.
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AI summary
[Problem] The problem relates to providing a setting method, an automatic traveling method, a setting system, and a setting program which are capable of improving work efficiency of work performed by multiple work vehicles in a work region. [Solution] The setting processing part 211 registers the first work corresponding to the work vehicle 10a that automatically travels in the work range A1 within the field F, and registers the second work corresponding to the work vehicle 10b that automatically travels in the work range A2 within the field F. The generation processing part 212 generates the target route R1 for causing the work vehicle 10a to automatically travel for the work range A1, based on work information of the first work, and generates the target route R2 for causing the work vehicle 10b to automatically travel for the work range A2, 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.