Work Vehicle Parameter Synchronization for Coordinated Automatic Travel

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing work vehicle coordination systems face challenges in maintaining consistent traveling work parameters across multiple vehicles, leading to inefficient and troublesome manual adjustments, especially during automatic traveling, due to differences in vehicle specifications and implement settings.

Innovation Solution

A work vehicle coordination system that acquires and compares traveling work parameters across vehicles, generates difference data, and uses conforming data to automatically correct parameters, ensuring consistency and alleviating the burden on operators by allowing self-correction and individual adjustments based on unique specifications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual checking and adjustment of traveling work parameters is performed for all work vehicles before automatic traveling, then consistent work results can be obtained, but the operation becomes troublesome and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconsistency of work resultsVSAvoidoperational burden
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

Each work vehicle is equipped with a parameter correction section that automatically detects and corrects its own traveling work parameters by comparing them with the master work vehicle's parameters, eliminating the need for manual checking and adjustment by operators

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system establishes a feedback mechanism where traveling work parameters are continuously monitored and compared between master and slave work vehicles, and automatic corrections are applied based on the detected differences, ensuring consistency without manual intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If traveling work parameters are individually set for each work vehicle to account for specification differences, then vehicle-specific requirements are met, but parameter consistency across the fleet deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccommodation of vehicle specificationsVSAvoidparameter consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system allows each work vehicle to have its own parameter settings tailored to its specific specifications, while simultaneously enabling automatic comparison and correction mechanisms that ensure these individualized parameters remain consistent with the master vehicle's parameters through localized adjustments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Productivity

If traveling work parameters are automatically adjusted during coordinated work, then operational efficiency is improved, but parameter consistency may be compromised without proper coordination

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperational efficiencyVSAvoidparameter consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements continuous feedback loops where traveling work parameters are monitored in real-time, compared across the work vehicle fleet, and automatically adjusted to maintain consistency while enabling efficient automated operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The parameter correction mechanism serves multiple functions simultaneously: it maintains parameter consistency across different vehicle specifications, enables automatic operation without manual intervention, and adapts to various work conditions, making the system universally applicable to different coordinated work scenarios

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP3467607B1Work vehicle cooperation system and work vehicle
Publication Date: 2022.01.05 KUBOTA CORP
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AI summary

A work vehicle coordination system includes a traveling work parameter setting section (41) included in each work vehicle for setting a traveling work parameter to define a traveling work of each work vehicle, a communication processing section (71, 72) for effecting data communication between/among the plurality of work vehicles, a traveling work parameter acquisition section (42) for acquiring the traveling work parameter set in each work vehicle, a difference data generation section (43) for generating difference data indicative of a difference between/among the traveling work parameters set in the respective work vehicles, and an informing section (56) for informing the difference data.