WORK VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM

• US 20160202698A1
• Filed: 11/13/2014
• Published: 07/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: YAMASAKI, Ryota, OOKURA, Yoshinori, HAMADA, Tomoyuki, YAMADA, Tsutomu
• Application Number:
  US14/917,102
• Publication Number:
  US 20160202698A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 1/003 to auxiliary motors, e.g. for pumps, compressors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/2009 for braking
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/36 Vehicles designed to transport cargo, e.g. trucks
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/46 Wheel motors, i.e. motor connected to only one wheel
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/12 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/622 by satellite navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/70 Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/28 Four wheel or all wheel drive
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/61 by batteries charged by engine-driven generators, e.g. series hybrid electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 15/0027 Radio-based, e.g. using GSM-R
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 15/0062 On-board target speed calculation or supervision
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 2205/04 Satellite based navigation systems, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 23/22 for controlling traffic in two directions over the same pair of rails
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 25/025 Absolute localisation, e.g. providing geodetic coordinates
• CPC Class Codes: B61L 27/20 Trackside control of safe travel of vehicle or train, e.g. braking curve calculation
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0027 involving a plurality of vehicles, e.g. fleet or convoy travelling fleet control of land vehicles from a control room G05D1/0297; traffic control systems for road vehicles G08G1/00; for marine craft G08G3/00; for aircraft G08G5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0223 involving speed control of the vehicle vehicle fittings for automatically controlling, i.e. preventing speed from exceeding an arbitrarily established velocity or maintaining speed at a particular velocity, as selected by the vehicle operator B60K31/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0291 Fleet control monitoring fleets in traffic control systems for road vehicles G08G1/127, G08G1/127
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 : Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 : Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 : Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 : Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles

Abstract

A dump truck control system includes a permission request unit for requesting, while a vehicle body travels in a first predetermined block section of a travel path on which the vehicle body is to travel, a travel permission request signal for permitting travel in a second block section located ahead of the first block section from an on-board wireless device. A calculation unit changes a frequency of requesting the travel permission signal in accordance with a remaining distance to an emergency stop point in the case where it is determined from a travel position detected by a GPS device that the dump truck is traveling in the first block section and a control center is controlling travel of the dump truck.

Claims

1. A work vehicle control system comprising:

a work vehicle including an on-board controller, a communication unit capable of performing communication, a position detection unit configured to detect a travel position of a vehicle body with the on-board controller mounted thereon, a permission request unit configured to, while the vehicle body travels in a predetermined first block section of a travel path on which the vehicle body is to travel, transmit a travel permission request signal for requesting a travel permission signal that permits travel in a second block section ahead of the first block section via the communication unit, and a control unit configured to change a frequency of transmission of the travel permission request signal by the permission request unit in accordance with a distance or a required time to a predetermined position in the first block section, located ahead of the vehicle body, when it is determined based on the travel position detected by the position detection unit that the vehicle body is traveling in the first block section; and

a control center configured to transmit/receive predetermined information to/from a plurality of the work vehicles and control travel of the work vehicles.

2. The work vehicle control system according to claim 1, wherein

the work vehicle includes a braking device configured to brake travel of the vehicle body, and

the frequency of transmission of the travel permission request signal is determined in accordance with a braking distance from where travel of the vehicle body is braked by the braking device to where the vehicle body is stopped.

3. A work vehicle control system comprising:

a work vehicle including an on-board controller, a travel control unit configured to control travel of a vehicle body with the on-board controller mounted thereon, a communication unit capable of performing communication, a position detection unit configured to detect a travel position of the vehicle body, a permission request unit configured to, while the vehicle body travels in a predetermined first block section of a travel path on which the vehicle body is to travel, transmit a travel permission request signal for requesting a travel permission signal that permits travel in a second block section ahead of the first block section via the communication unit, and a control unit configured to change a travel speed of the vehicle body via the travel control unit in accordance with a distance or a required time to a predetermined position in the first block section, located ahead of the vehicle body, when it is determined based on the travel position detected by the position detection unit that the vehicle body is traveling in the first block section; and

a control center configured to transmit/receive predetermined information to/from a plurality of the work vehicles and control travel of the work vehicles.

4. The work vehicle control system according to claim 3, wherein

the work vehicle includes a braking device configured to brake travel of the vehicle body, and

a change of the travel speed is determined in accordance with a braking distance from where travel of the vehicle body is braked by the braking device to where the vehicle body is stopped.

5. A work vehicle control system comprising:

a work vehicle including an on-board controller, a communication unit capable of performing communication, a position detection unit configured to detect a travel position of a vehicle body with the on-board controller mounted thereon, a permission request unit configured to, while the vehicle body travels in a predetermined first block section of a travel path on which the vehicle body is to travel, transmit a travel permission request signal for requesting a travel permission signal that permits travel in a second block section ahead of the first block section via the communication unit, a permission signal acquisition unit configured to receive the travel permission signal via the communication unit, a memory configured to store map information including the travel path on which the vehicle body is to travel, and a control unit configured to, when the permission signal acquisition unit has received the travel permission signal, calculate a travel position of the vehicle body at a time of transmission of the travel permission request signal for which the travel permission signal has been received, based on the travel position detected by the position detection unit and the map information, and transmit the travel permission request signal by the permission request unit when the vehicle body travels at the calculated travel position; and

a control center configured to transmit/receive predetermined information to/from a plurality of the work vehicles and control travel of the work vehicles.