Agricultural Route Visualization for Tractor Travel Confirmation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing agriculture support systems lack the ability to easily confirm the transition of an agricultural machine's travel after a scheduled traveling route is created, making it difficult to ensure accurate and efficient path execution.
Innovation Solution
An agriculture support system that includes a tractor equipped with a detector device, controller device, communicator device, and position detector using satellite positioning, allowing for the creation and visualization of scheduled traveling routes, and enabling the tractor to automatically travel along these routes while transmitting data for work plan management and route confirmation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a scheduled traveling route is created for the agricultural machine, then the work efficiency is improved, but it becomes difficult to confirm the travel transition and path execution accuracy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual traveling body that copies the agricultural machine's appearance and behavior. This virtual representation is displayed on a terminal device, allowing operators to monitor the machine's travel transition and path execution without adding physical complexity to the agricultural machine itself. The virtual model replicates the machine's movements and status, providing visual confirmation of the scheduled route execution.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a terminal device as an intermediary between the agricultural machine and the operator. This intermediary receives data from the machine's detectors and controllers, processes it, and presents it in a visually understandable format. The terminal device acts as a mediator that translates complex machine data into comprehensible travel transition information, solving the problem of difficult confirmation without modifying the machine's core functionality.
2Extent of automation
If multiple detectors and controllers are added to the agricultural machine, then the automation and precision are improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs the detector device and controller device to perform multiple functions. The detectors not only detect position and orientation but also provide data for the virtual traveling body display. The controllers not only control the traveling mechanism but also manage communication with the terminal device. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated components, thereby managing complexity while maintaining automation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines the control functions for the agricultural machine's travel with the functions for creating and managing scheduled traveling routes. The controller device integrates route execution control with machine operation control, reducing the number of separate control systems needed. This merging approach maintains high automation while simplifying the overall device architecture.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables easy confirmation of the tractor's travel transition on the scheduled route, ensuring accurate path execution and facilitating coordinated agricultural work through real-time monitoring and data transmission.
Implementation Method 1
position detector configured to detect position information of the agricultural machine
Data Source
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AI summary
In order to easily confirm the transition of the travel of an agricultural machine after creation of a scheduled traveling route an agriculture support device (90) includes a traveling creator portion (130) to create a scheduled traveling route (R1) of an agricultural machine in an agricultural field, a display controller portion (135) to display, on an external terminal (15), a virtual traveling status of the agricultural machine to travel on the scheduled traveling route (R1) created by the traveling creator portion (130); and a correction permitting portion (140) to permit correction of the scheduled traveling route (R1) created by the traveling creator portion (130) when the external terminal (15) requests the correction. The display controller portion (135) displays, on the external terminal (15), the virtual traveling status and a result traveling status of the agricultural machine that has travelled on the scheduled traveling route (R1).