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Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 08, 2017
Applicant:

Kubota Corporation, Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Kazuyoshi Kawamoto, Sakai, JP;

Akira Tominaga, Sakai, JP;

Yuji Ishii, Sakai, JP;

Assignee:

Kubota Corporation, Osaka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); B60R 1/00 (2006.01); B60R 11/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00791 (2013.01); B60R 1/00 (2013.01); B60R 11/04 (2013.01); G05D 1/0246 (2013.01); G05D 1/0274 (2013.01); B60R 2300/302 (2013.01); B60R 2300/8086 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01);
Abstract

An off-road vehicle that travels on the off-road ground includes: a sensor group configured to detect unevenness of the ground; a camera configured to capture the unevenness of the ground; a ground unevenness degree calculation unit configured to calculate a ground unevenness degree indicating an unevenness degree of the ground based on an input parameter; an input parameter setting unit configured to set, as the input parameter, data selected from among data detected by the sensor group and image data captured by the camera; an unevenness-position data generation unit configured to associate the actual vehicle position with the ground unevenness degree to generate ground unevenness-position data; and a data storage unit configured to store the ground unevenness-position data.


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