Agricultural Vehicle Setting Tracking by Work Unit and Position
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing management systems for agricultural vehicles fail to manage setting information and position information of working vehicles in units of pieces of work, making it impossible to effectively track and share working vehicle settings in agricultural field operations.
Innovation Solution
A management system that includes a working vehicle equipped with a controller, communicator, and position detector, which generates and transmits correspondence information including setting and position data to a server, enabling the storage and management of vehicle settings in units of work, allowing for efficient tracking and sharing of agricultural field work data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the management system stores only reference information from a single working vehicle, then the system complexity is low, but the ability to manage setting information in units of work is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the management system into multiple working vehicles (first working vehicle, second working vehicle, etc.), each capable of independently storing and managing setting information. This segmentation allows each vehicle to maintain its own work unit settings while the overall system remains manageable through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the management system universal by enabling multiple working vehicles to use the same setting information storage and management mechanisms. Each vehicle can store, retrieve, and share setting information in work units, making the system applicable to diverse agricultural working vehicles without requiring vehicle-specific customization.
2Ease of operation
If the system shares reference information between working vehicles, then the ease of operation improves, but the precision of work-unit-specific setting management deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments setting information into work-unit-specific categories, where each working vehicle maintains distinct setting records for different work units. This segmentation allows precise tracking of which settings correspond to which specific agricultural tasks while still enabling sharing of similar settings across vehicles.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a copying mechanism where setting information from one working vehicle can be copied to another working vehicle. This allows easy sharing and replication of proven settings across the fleet while maintaining the ability to preserve original work-unit-specific settings, thus balancing ease of operation with precision.
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AI summary
A management system (S) includes a working vehicle (1) and a server (50). The working vehicle (1) includes a working device (2), a vehicle body (3) capable of traveling by either automatic steering based on a reference line or manual steering, a position detector (43) configured to detect a position of the vehicle body (3), a first memory (41) configured to store, in a case where the vehicle body (3) is automatically steered, correspondence information in which setting information of the working vehicle (1) and position information of the vehicle body (3) are associated with each other, and a first communicator (42) configured to transmit the correspondence information stored in the first memory (41) to the server (50). The server (50) includes a second communicator (52) configured to receive the correspondence information transmitted by the first communicator (42), and a second memory (53) configured to store the correspondence information received by the second communicator (52).