Kubota Corporation

Shingo Yoshimura

Katsumi Ito

Shigeru Tanaka

An automatic running work vehicle adapted to repeatedly work on the ground while automatically changing its running direction and provided with means for controlling the vehicle body so that the vehicle body will be automatically positioned, upon a change of direction after finishing one course, for the next course with its orientation and position in match with the boundary of the course.

Automatic running work vehicle

An automatic running work vehicle in which both front wheels and rear wheels can be steered and which is provided with a follower sensor for detecting the boundary between an unworked area and a worked area and an orientation sensor for detecting the running direction so as to run automatically along the boundary. Based on the result of detection of the boundary by the follower sensor and on the result of detection of the orientation of the vehicle body by the orientation sensor, the front and rear wheels are steered automatically to correct the running direction automatically.

An automatic running work vehicle adapted to automatically run straight along a predetermined boundary of a running area by being subjected to steering control based on the combination of parameters detected by a follower sensor for detecting the boundary and an orientation sensor for detecting the running direction.

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Sakai, Japan

Shingo Yoshimura