Kubota Corporation

Shinnosuke Ishikawa

Susumu Umemoto

Ryo Kurata

Takanori Morimoto

Tomohiro Kinoshita

Eiji Nishi

Nobuyuki Okabe

Yoshitomo Fujimoto

Junichi Yuasa

Yushi Matsuzaki

Fumiya Yoshimura

Shogo Hayashida

Kenichiro Yagi

Kenichi Iwami

Takashi Kobayashi

Yoshihiro Kushita

Akihiro Matsuzaki

Toshimitsu Yazaki

Atsushi Hayashi

Keiji Takahashi

Toshiya Fukumoto

Takashi Uchida

Ken Sakuta

Shigeru Komatsu

Yuji Tomiyama

Katsuhiko Honda

Koichiro Kan

Noriyuki Koshida

Komei Yamawaki

Zerbino Fulvio

An agricultural support system includes an unmanned aerial vehicle including a sensor, and an agricultural machine to travel in an agricultural field. When an abnormality occurs in the unmanned aerial vehicle while the agricultural machine performs work in the agricultural field in cooperation with the unmanned aerial vehicle, the unmanned aerial vehicle or the agricultural machine performs an operation different from an operation during the work.

Agricultural support system and unmanned aerial vehicle

A working machine includes a vehicle body to which a working device is connectable, a driving estimator to estimate whether the vehicle body is drivable along a road based on a road condition and a device condition, a controller to control a driving operation of the vehicle body based on an estimation result obtained by the driving estimator, and a communicator to transmit to an external device driving information regarding driving the vehicle body under control of the controller. The controller is configured or programmed to drive the vehicle body based on a command received from the external device after transmission of the driving information from the communicator to the external device.

Working machine

A communication system for an agricultural machine includes an information terminal to transmit first information to an agricultural machine, a first communicator provided in or on an unmanned aerial vehicle to receive the first information transmitted from the information terminal, and a second communicator provided in or on the agricultural machine to receive the first information transmitted to the first communicator. The second communicator is operable to transmit second information about the agricultural machine to the first communicator, and the first communicator is operable to transmit the second information to the information terminal.

Communication system for agricultural machine

An agricultural machine includes a traveling vehicle body, a coupler to couple a working implement with the traveling vehicle body, and a takeoff/landing station to restrict a skid of an unmanned aerial vehicle when the unmanned aerial vehicle takes off or lands. The agricultural machine includes a protector to protect an operator's seat. The takeoff/landing station is provided on the protector. The takeoff/landing station is attached to the protector and includes an arm extending in a horizontal direction when the unmanned aerial vehicle takes off or lands.

Agricultural machine

An agricultural machine includes a swath information acquiring module, a first determining module to determine a traveling path of an automatic operation based on a position of a swath, a setting module to set a work continuation width based on the traveling path, a second determining module to determine, when there is a manual operation by a worker during the automatic operation, whether the agricultural machine during the manual operation is within the work continuation width, and an executing module to execute the automatic operation. The executing module restores the agricultural machine to the traveling path after a termination of the manual operation and continues the automatic operation when the agricultural machine is within the work continuation width, and cancels the automatic operation when the agricultural machine is determined to be not within the work continuation width.

A work vehicle includes a traveling vehicle body, a coupler capable of coupling a working device including working implements to the traveling vehicle body, an automatic operation controller configured or programmed to automatically operate the traveling vehicle body based on a planned traveling route, and a work setting controller configured or programmed to set a work start position and a work end position for the working device at different positions based on the working implements.

Work vehicle and work assistance apparatus for work vehicle

A coupling device includes: a first connector that connects to a work vehicle; a second connector that connects to a work device; an actuator that changes a connecting position of at least one of the first connector and the second connector; and a control device that controls the actuator.

Coupling device

A control system to control a work machine and a traveling vehicle traveling with the work machine, includes a first communication device and a second communication device each of which controls operation of the traveling vehicle and at least one of which includes an authenticator to authenticate the work machine by communicating with a third communication device to control operation of the work machine, and a notifier to notify the other one of the first communication device and the second communication device that the authenticator succeeded in authentication, the first communication device and the second communication device each being prohibited, unless the authenticator succeeds in authentication, from at least controlling operation of the traveling vehicle in accordance with information sent from the third communication device.

Control system and traveling vehicle

In an agricultural machine, a route creator creates a planned traveling route for a traveling vehicle body in a work area where a working device works using a material. An area setter sets, outside the work area, a replenishment area to replenish the material. A charge amount acquirer acquires a charge amount of the material. A remaining amount calculator calculates a remaining amount of the material based on the charge amount acquired and a material consumption of the material consumed by the work. A position setter sets a replenishment position to replenish the material in the replenishment area set by the area setter based on the remaining amount calculated by the remaining amount calculator. A position changer changes the replenishment position when a change reception switch receives change of the replenishment position. A display displays the changed replenishment position.

There is provided an agricultural field work vehicle capable of entering a work travel path intended by the driver in transition from manual turn travel to autonomous work travel. An agricultural field work vehicle includes an autonomous travel control section configured to cause the agricultural field work vehicle to perform autonomous travel on the basis of work travel paths and the position of the agricultural field work vehicle, a manual travel control section configured to control manual travel of the agricultural field work vehicle along a turn travel path, a destination travel path singling-out section configured to single out a destination work travel path from among a group of candidates of destination work travel paths that the agricultural field work vehicle is able to enter from the turn travel path through which the agricultural field work vehicle is driven manually, a notification device configured to notify the driver of path notification information, which is information on the work travel paths, which include the destination work travel path singled out, and an autonomous travel start operation tool for use to instruct the agricultural field work vehicle to switch from controlling the manual travel to controlling the autonomous travel.

Agricultural field work vehicle

A tractor includes a controller configured to make a determination as to whether stopping control is necessary and to start the stopping control, based on a relation between a target bale size and a current bale size and a stopping distance corresponding to a vehicle speed and a surrounding environment.

Traveling vehicle and working vehicle

A traveling vehicle includes a controller to control a posture of a work machine via a connector. The controller observes whether a farm field surface on which the traveling vehicle travels and the work machine maintain a predetermined positional relationship therebetween, and controls the posture of the work machine when a positional relationship between the farm field surface and the work machine changes from the predetermined positional relationship, so that the positional relationship thus changed is reset to the predetermined positional relationship.

Traveling vehicle

An agricultural machine includes a baler controller configured or programmed to obtain an ejector inclination value from a positional relation between a tractor inclination sensor and a bale ejector of a baler, the ejector inclination value being a sensor value of the inclination sensor corresponding to the bale ejector, and to allow ejection of the bale when a size of the bale in the baler is larger than a first threshold value and the ejector inclination value is less than a second threshold value.

A machine body side control device is configured to control an actuator based on information on a posture change of a machine body obtained from a machine body side sensor and information on a position of an implement relative to the ground surface obtained from an implement side sensor via an implement side control device.

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Sakai, Japan

Shinnosuke Ishikawa