Driving Analyzer and Driving Analyzing Method for Haulage Vehicles

• US 20160253853A1
• Filed: 03/12/2014
• Published: 09/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Yasuko, Mito, Kazuomi
• Granted Patent: US 9,734,641 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/84 Data processing systems or methods, management, administration

Abstract

A driving analyzer for a haulage vehicle includes: a data loader acquiring a cycle data set each time when the haulage vehicle travels the route back and forth and storing the cycle data set in a memory, the cycle data set including: position information of the traveling haulage vehicle; and driving information including information about fuel consumption and load amount; a data extractor extracting reference cycle data set and analysis-target cycle data set from a plurality of cycle data sets in the memory; a section extractor dividing the route into a plurality of sections based on the position information and extracting an analysis-target section therefrom; and a driving information output unit outputting a part of the driving information regarding the analysis-target section according to each of the reference cycle data set and the analysis-target cycle data set.

Claims

1. A driving analyzer for a haulage vehicle configured to repeatedly travel a same route, the driving analyzer comprising:

a data loader configured to acquire a cycle data set each time when the haulage vehicle travels the route back and forth and store the cycle data set in a memory, the cycle data set being acquired for a plurality of times to be stored in a form of a plurality of cycle data sets, the cycle data set comprising;

position information of the traveling haulage vehicle; and

driving information comprising information about a fuel consumption per cycle and a carried load amount per cycle;

a data extractor configured to extract a reference cycle data set and an analysis-target cycle data set from the plurality of cycle data sets stored in the memory;

a section extractor configured to divide the route into a plurality of sections based on the position information and extract an analysis-target section from the plurality of sections; and

a driving information output unit configured to output a part of the driving information regarding the analysis-target section according to each of the reference cycle data set and the analysis-target cycle data set.

2. The driving analyzer according to claim 1, wherein the data extractor extracts as the reference cycle data one of the plurality of cycle data sets with a smallest value obtained by dividing the fuel consumption per cycle by the carried load amount per cycle.

3. The driving analyzer according to claim 1, further comprising an evaluation value calculator configured to calculate an evaluation value for fuel-saving driving on a basis of each of the plurality of sections divided from the route based on the position information, the evaluation value comprising a reference evaluation value calculated from the fuel consumption according to the reference cycle data set and an analysis-target evaluation value calculated from the fuel consumption according to the analysis-target cycle data set, wherein

the section extractor compares the reference evaluation value and the analysis-target evaluation value on the basis of each of the plurality of sections, and extracts one of the sections that satisfies an extraction condition as the analysis-target section.

4. The driving analyzer according to claim 3, wherein the evaluation value calculated by the evaluation value calculator is any one of:

a fuel consumption per section;

a value obtained by dividing the fuel consumption per section by the carried load amount per cycle; and

a value obtained by dividing the fuel consumption per section by a sum of a weight of the haulage vehicle and the carried load amount.

5. The driving analyzer according to claim 1, wherein the section extractor extracts one of the sections that comprises a slope divided from the route as the analysis-target section.

6. The driving analyzer according to claim 1, wherein the data extractor comprises a load-amount-based exclusion determining unit configured to exclude one of the cycle data sets not to be extracted, the carried load amount of the one of the cycle data sets being outside a predetermined range with reference to a maximum load amount of the haulage vehicle.

7. The driving analyzer according to claim 1, wherein

the driving information further comprises a travel time per cycle spent to travel the route back and forth, and

the data extractor comprises a travel-time-based exclusion determining unit configured to exclude one of the cycle data sets not to be extracted, the travel time of the one of the cycle data sets being outside a predetermined range with reference to an average travel time.

8. The driving analyzer according to claim 1, wherein

the driving information further comprises a mileage per cycle accumulated to travel the route back and forth, and

the data extractor comprises a mileage-based-exclusion determining unit configured to exclude one of the cycle data sets not to be extracted, the mileage of the one of the cycle data sets being outside a predetermined range with reference to an average mileage.

9. A driving analyzing method for a haulage vehicle configured to repeatedly travel a same route, the driving analyzing method comprising:

acquiring a cycle data set each time when the haulage vehicle travels the route back and forth;

storing the cycle data set in a memory, the cycle data set being acquired for a plurality of times to be stored in a form of a plurality of cycle data sets, the cycle data set comprising;

position information of the traveling haulage vehicle; and

driving information comprising information about a fuel consumption per cycle and a carried load amount per cycle;

extracting a reference cycle data set and an analysis-target cycle data set from the plurality of cycle data sets stored in the memory;

dividing the route into a plurality of sections based on the position information;

extracting an analysis-target section from the plurality of sections; and

outputting a part of the driving information regarding the analysis-target section according to each of the reference cycle data set and the analysis-target cycle data set.