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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2018
Iseki & Co., Ltd, Ehime-ken, JP;
Koki Ono, Ehime-ken, JP;
Iseki & Co., LTD, Ehime-Ken, JP;
Abstract
A work vehicle may be provided such that in autonomous traveling, contact with obstacles is avoided, and work is efficiently and safely performed. A work vehicle may include: a positioning devicemeasuring the vehicle body's own position; an obstacle recognition means recognizing an obstacle P, E, U; and a control unit having the vehicle autonomously travel on a planned travel path Rpreliminarily set; wherein the control unit includes obstacle position information Dpreliminarily stored; while traveling on the planned travel path R, when an obstacle P, E is recognized by the obstacle recognition means, at a position stored in the obstacle position information D, avoidance driving is performed to avoid contact with the obstacle P, E; and when the position of an obstacle U recognized by the obstacle recognition means is different from the stored obstacle position information D, the traveling is stopped.