Komatsu Corporation

Jin Kitajima

Masashi Ichihara

Toru Matsuyama

Yuki Shimano

Yoshiki Kami

Tsutomu Iwamura

Takeshi Takaura

Masanobu Seki

Tomohiro Nakagawa

Teruo Akiyama

Yuto Fujii

Kazuhiro Maruta

Takashi Yokoo

Yoshiro Iwasaki

Hisashi Asada

Takeshi Ooi

Kazuki Takehara

Hikaru Suzuki

A control method of a work machine includes: calculating a maximum flow rate of hydraulic oil discharged from a hydraulic pump; calculating a first target speed of working equipment including a bucket based on an operation amount of an operation device operated for driving a plurality of hydraulic actuators to which the hydraulic oil discharged from the hydraulic pump is supplied to drive the working equipment and a distance between the bucket and a target excavation landform; calculating a second target speed of the working equipment based on the maximum flow rate, and the operation amount of the operation device and the distance between the bucket and the target excavation landform; and outputting a control signal for controlling the hydraulic actuators based on a smaller one of the first target speed and the second target speed.

Control system of work machine and method for controlling work machine

A work equipment control device includes a bucket posture-determining unit, a working plane-determining unit, and a bucket control unit. The bucket posture-determining unit determines an angle of a bucket in global coordinates. The working plane-determining unit determines an angle of a working plane in the global coordinates indicating a target shape of an excavation object of work equipment. The bucket control unit controls the bucket such that a difference between the angle of the bucket and the angle of the working plane maintains a uniform angle.

Work equipment control device and work machine

A control device for a construction machine includes an operational amount data acquisition unit configured to acquire operational amount data indicating an operational amount of the working unit, an operation determination unit configured to determine a non-operation state of a bucket on the basis of the operational amount data, a bucket control determination unit configured to determine whether bucket control conditions are satisfied, on the basis of determination of the non-operation state, and a working unit control unit configured to output a control signal for controlling the bucket to maintain a state of the working unit, when the bucket control conditions are determined to be satisfied.

Control device for construction machine and method of controlling construction machine

A control device includes a bucket control unit and a speed restricting unit. The bucket control unit calculates a control speed controlling a bucket so as to maintain an angle of the work equipment at a constant angle. The speed restricting unit reduces the control speed when the bucket is driven at the control speed calculated by the bucket control unit and when a direction in which the bucket is driven and a direction in which the arm is driven coincide with each other.

A control system for a work vehicle includes at least one sensor, an operating device, and a controller. The operating device includes at least one operating member. The controller is programmed to control a work implement of the work vehicle based on signals from the at least one sensor and the operating device. The controller is further programmed to use the signals to obtain a distance between the work implement and a design terrain which represents a target shape of a work object, and to determine whether a surface compaction determination condition indicating that work performed by the work implement is surface compaction work is satisfied. The controller executes a surface compaction control in which a velocity of the work implement toward the design terrain is limited in response to the distance between the work implement and the design terrain when the surface compaction determination condition is satisfied.

Control system for work vehicle, control method, and work vehicle

A distance obtaining unit obtains the distance between a work implement and a design terrain. A work aspect determining unit determines a work aspect by the work implement. A limit velocity deciding unit limits the velocity of the work implement when the distance between the work implement and the design terrain becomes smaller. When the work aspect is surface compaction work and the distance between the work implement and the design terrain is within a first range of at least a portion that is equal to or less than a predetermined first distance, the limit velocity deciding unit increases the limit velocity of the work implement in comparison to when the work aspect is an aspect of a work other than surface compaction, or cancels the limiting of the velocity of the work implement.

A work equipment control device includes a work equipment state specifying unit, a control reference specifying unit, a distance specifying unit, and a bucket control unit. The work equipment state specifying unit specifies a state of work equipment. The control reference specifying unit specifies a control reference of the work equipment. The distance specifying unit specifies a distance between the work equipment and the control reference. The bucket control unit generates a control command to drive a bucket such that the state of the work equipment is maintained when the distance between the work equipment and the control reference is less than a bucket control start threshold.

A construction machine control system includes: a target construction ground shape generation unit which generates a target construction ground shape indicating a target shape of an excavation target; a working device control instruction determination unit which outputs an instruction for driving the working device in a working device operation plane orthogonal to at least one of a boom axis, an arm axis, and a bucket axis based on an operation state of at least one of an arm and a bucket and a distance between the bucket and the target construction ground shape; and a tilting control instruction determination unit which outputs an instruction for performing a tilting control of the bucket about a tilting axis based on a tilting state of the bucket and the distance between the bucket and the target construction ground shape.

Construction machine control system, construction machine, and construction machine control method

A control system controls a construction machine that includes a work machine including a bucket having a plurality of tilting mechanisms. The control system includes: a tilt angle sensor that is provided in the bucket so as to detect tilt angle data including a rotation angle of the bucket about the tilt shaft, the tilt angle sensor being capable of detecting an inclination angle with respect to a horizontal plane; a data acquisition unit to which the tilt angle data is output from the tilt angle sensor; a data fixing unit that fixes the tilt angle data output to the data acquisition unit based on a fixing command to generate fixed data; and a work machine control unit that controls the work machine based on the fixed data until the fixing command is disabled.

Construction machine control system, construction machine, and method of controlling construction machine

A control system controls a construction machine having a work machine including a tilting bucket. The control system includes: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire dimension data; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire external shape data of the bucket; a third acquisition unit configured to acquire target excavation landform data indicating a target excavation landform that is a two-dimensional target shape of an excavation object on a work machine operation plane perpendicular to a bucket axis; a fourth acquisition unit configured to acquire work machine angle data; a fifth acquisition unit configured to acquire tilt angle data indicating a turning angle of the bucket; and a calculation unit configured to obtain two-dimensional bucket data indicating an external shape of the bucket on the work machine operation plane on the basis of the dimension data, the external shape data, the work machine angle data, and the tilt angle data.

Control system for construction machine, construction machine, and method for controlling construction machine

A control deciding unit for deciding to execute a leveling control for controlling a work implement so that the work implement moves along a design terrain when a leveling determination condition is satisfied. The control deciding unit decides to execute a surface compaction control for limiting the velocity of the work implement toward the design terrain in response to the distance between the work implement and the design terrain when a surface compaction determination condition is satisfied. The control deciding unit maintains the surface compaction control when the leveling determination condition is satisfied while the surface compaction control is being executed.

A calibration device for a work machine includes: a measurement value acquiring unit acquiring respective measurement values of a first actuation unit and a bucket measured using an external measurement device; a working equipment parameter acquiring unit acquiring working equipment parameters of the member of the first actuation unit and the bucket; a calibration unit calibrating the working equipment parameters of the member of the first actuation unit and the bucket based on the measurement value of a reference point of the bucket acquired by the measurement value acquiring unit; and a calibration range selecting unit selecting, from among a first range where a variation in a swing angle of the bucket has a predetermined relationship with a change in swing angle information of the bucket and a second range where a variation in the swing angle increases as compared with the variation in the first range.

Calibration device for work machine and calibration method of working equipment parameter for work machine

A calibration device for a work machine includes: a working equipment parameter acquiring unit acquiring working equipment parameters of members of first and second actuation units; a measurement value acquiring unit acquiring respective measurement values of the work machine body and first and second actuation units measured by an external measurement device; a first calibration unit calibrating the parameter related to the member of the first actuation unit acquired by the acquiring unit based on the measurement value of the first actuation unit acquired by the acquiring unit; and a second calibration unit calibrating the working equipment parameter of the member of the second actuation unit based on the working equipment parameter of the first actuation unit calibrated by the first calibration unit and the respective measurement values of the reference points of the work machine body and first and second actuation units acquired by the acquiring unit.

There is provided a work vehicle in which sudden operation of a work implement can be suppressed. The work vehicle includes a design surface information acquiring unit for acquiring data of a design surface indicative of a target shape of a work object by the work implement; a cutting edge position computing unit for computing a position of a cutting edge of a bucket; and an operation restricting unit for executing operation restriction control by which a boom is forcibly raised in accordance with a relative position of the cutting edge to the design surface, and the position of the cutting edge is restricted to an upper part of the design surface. In a state where the cutting edge is located away from the design surface in a downward perpendicular direction by a prescribed distance or longer, the operation restricting unit does not execute the operation restriction control.

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