DRIVING SUPPORT SYSTEM

• US 20160031447A1
• Filed: 07/23/2015
• Published: 02/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kubota Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kubota Corporation
• Inventors: KOBAYASHI, Takashi, KOMATSU, Shigeru, NISHI, Eiji, TAKAHASHI, Keiji, ISHIKAWA, Shinnosuke
• Application Number:
  US14/807,366
• Publication Number:
  US 20160031447A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 69/007 Steering or guiding of agricultural vehicles, e.g. steering of the tractor to keep the plough in the furrow
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/18 including control of braking systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/20 including control of steering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/30 including control of auxiliary equipment, e.g. air-conditioning compressors or oil pumps
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2300/12 Trucks; Load vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2300/15 Agricultural vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/215 Selection or confirmation of options
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/30 Auxiliary equipments
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/0098 Details of control systems ensuring comfort, safety or stability not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/427 Teaching successive positions by tracking the position of a joystick or handle to control the positioning servo of the tool head, master-slave control G05B19/423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/36482 Recording of position and of command instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/45017 Agriculture machine, tractor

Abstract

A driving support system includes a device control unit that outputs operation control signals to a travel operation device causing a traveling vehicle body to travel and a work operation device causing a ground work apparatus to operate. A recorder records control data in execution processing order as a work/travel sequence. A reproducer reads out the control data recorded by the recorder and transmits the control data to the device control unit. A screen processor converts the control data for each execution processing unit to an icon and displays in a display a work/travel sequence screen displaying the icon in the execution processing order. The system manages a plurality of the work/travel sequences on the same work/travel sequence screen.

Claims

1. A driving support system for a traveling work vehicle that works and travels utilizing a ground work apparatus that is coupled to a traveling vehicle body, comprising:

a device control unit that outputs operation control signals to;

a travel operation device causing the traveling vehicle body to travel; and

a work operation device causing the ground work apparatus to operate;

a display that displays operation states of the travel operation device and the work operation device;

a recorder that records control data in execution processing order as a work/travel sequence, the control data corresponding to the operation control signals;

a reproducer that reads out the control data recorded by the recorder and transmits the control data to the device control unit;

a screen processor that uses the control data and outputs image data to the display in order to display icons indicating an execution processing order on a work/travel sequence screen; and

a plurality of work/travel managers that manage a plurality of the work/travel sequences.

2. The driving support system according to claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

a plurality of work/travel managers that manage a plurality of the work/travel sequences on a same work/travel sequence screen; and

/or

an editor that manages editing of the work/travel sequence via the work/travel sequence screen.

3. The driving support system according to claim 1, further comprising each of:

a plurality of work/travel managers that manage a plurality of the work/travel sequences on a same work/travel sequence screen; and

an editor that manages editing of the work/travel sequence via the work/travel sequence screen.

4. The driving support system according to claim 1, wherein the recorder records control data based on operation control signals output during a teaching travel mode.

5. The driving support system according to claim 4, wherein the work/travel sequence screen comprises selection buttons adapted to be selected from a plurality of work/travel sequences that are managed by the plurality of the work/travel managers.

6. The driving support system according to claim 4, further comprising an attribute manager that assigns, on the work/travel sequence screen, one of a work time and a travel distance to an icon that configures the work/travel sequence.

7. The driving support system according to claim 6, wherein the attribute manager determines one of the work time and the travel distance as an attribute to be assigned based on a speed of the traveling vehicle body.

8. The driving support system according to claim 7, wherein the work/travel sequence screen comprises selection buttons adapted to be selected from a plurality of work/travel sequences that are managed by the plurality of the work/travel managers.

9. The driving support system according to claim 8, wherein:

one of the plurality of the work/travel sequences is a sequence at a start of a headland turn that includes operation control signals required during transition from work travel to headland turn travel;

another one of the plurality of the work/travel sequences is a sequence at an end of a headland turn that includes operation control signals required during a transition from the headland turn travel to the work travel; and

the sequence at the start of the headland turn and the sequence at the end of the headland turn are one of;

manageable via a pair buttons on the work/travel sequence screen;

or

manageable via different buttons displayed on the work/travel sequence screen.

10. The driving support system according to claim 6, wherein the work/travel sequence screen comprises selection buttons adapted to be selected from a plurality of work/travel sequences that are managed by the plurality of the work/travel managers.

11. The driving support system according to claim 4, further comprising:

an editor that manages editing of the work/travel sequence via the work/travel sequence screen; and

an attribute manager that assigns, on the work/travel sequence screen, one of a work time and a travel distance to an icon that configures the work/travel sequence.

12. The driving support system according to claim 11, wherein:

one of the plurality of the work/travel sequences is a sequence at a start of a headland turn that includes operation control signals required during transition from work travel to headland turn travel;

another one of the plurality of the work/travel sequences is a sequence at an end of a headland turn that includes operation control signals required during a transition from the headland turn travel to the work travel; and

the sequence at the start of the headland turn and the sequence at the end of the headland turn are one of;

manageable via a pair buttons on the work/travel sequence screen;

or

manageable via different buttons displayed on the work/travel sequence screen.

13. The driving support system according to claim 7, wherein:

one of the plurality of the work/travel sequences is a sequence at a start of a headland turn that includes operation control signals required during transition from work travel to headland turn travel,

another one of the plurality of the work/travel sequences is a sequence at an end of a headland turn that includes operation control signals required during a transition from the headland turn travel to the work travel, and

the sequence at the start of the headland turn and the sequence at the end of the headland turn are one of;

managed via a pair buttons on the work/travel sequence screen;

or

managed via different buttons displayed on the work/travel sequence screen.

14. The driving support system according to claim 2, further comprising an attribute manager that assigns, on the work/travel sequence screen, one of a work time and a travel distance to an icon that configures the work/travel sequence, wherein the one of a work time and a travel distance is assigned as an attribute of one respective execution processing unit represented by the icon.

15. The driving support system according to claim 14, wherein:

one of the plurality of the work/travel sequences is a sequence at a start of a headland turn that includes operation control signals required during transition from work travel to headland turn travel;

another one of the plurality of the work/travel sequences is a sequence at an end of a headland turn that includes operation control signals required during a transition from the headland turn travel to the work travel; and

the sequence at the start of the headland turn and the sequence at the end of the headland turn are one of;

manageable via a pair buttons on the work/travel sequence screen;

or

manageable via different buttons displayed on the work/travel sequence screen.

16. The driving support system according to claim 1, wherein the work/travel sequence screen comprises selection buttons adapted to be selected from a plurality of work/travel sequences that are managed by the plurality of the work/travel managers.

17. The driving support system according to claim 1, wherein:

one of the plurality of the work/travel sequences is a sequence at a start of a headland turn that includes operation control signals required during transition from work travel to headland turn travel,

another one of the plurality of the work/travel sequences is a sequence at an end of a headland turn that includes operation control signals required during a transition from the headland turn travel to the work travel, and

the sequence at the start of the headland turn and the sequence at the end of the headland turn are one of;

manageable via a pair buttons on the work/travel sequence screen;

or

manageable via different buttons displayed on the work/travel sequence screen.

18. A driving support system for a traveling work vehicle utilizing a deployable ground work apparatus, comprising:

a device control unit that structured and arranged to control movement or operate the traveling work vehicle and the deployable ground work apparatus;

a display that displays operation states of the traveling work vehicle and the deployable work operation device;

a recorder that records control data in an execution processing order as a work/travel sequence;

a reproducer that reads out the control data recorded by the recorder and transmits the control data to the device control unit;

a screen processor that converts the control data to display data and displays in the display a work/travel sequence screen with icons arranged in an execution processing order; and

a headland management unit that manages a plurality of the work/travel sequences on a same work/travel sequence screen.

19. The driving support system according to claim 18, wherein the headland management unit comprises a plurality of work/travel managers that manage the plurality of the work/travel sequences on the same work/travel sequence screen.

20. A driving support system for a traveling work vehicle utilizing a deployable ground work apparatus, comprising:

a device control unit that structured and arranged to control movement or operate the traveling work vehicle and the deployable ground work apparatus;

a display that displays operation states of the traveling work vehicle and the deployable work operation device;

a recorder that records control data in an execution processing order as a work/travel sequence;

a reproducer that reads out the control data recorded by the recorder and transmits the control data to the device control unit;

a screen processor that converts the control data to display data and displays in the display a work/travel sequence screen with icons arranged in an execution processing order; and

a headland management unit that manages a plurality of the work/travel sequences on a work/travel sequence screen,

wherein one displayed work/travel sequence screen is indicative of a transition from linear travel to headland turn and is shown on the display with a first display button being activated; and

wherein another displayed work/travel sequence screen is indicative of a transition to linear travel from headland turn and is shown on the display with a second display button being activated.