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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2018
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hideaki Shimamura, Wako, JP;
Assignee:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 34/00 (2006.01); A01D 101/00 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 34/008 (2013.01); B60W 60/0025 (2020.02); G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G05D 1/0274 (2013.01); A01D 2101/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control apparatus of an autonomously navigating work machine driven by drive units while servicing a work area which is equipped with an information acquisition unit that acquires information relating to a navigation-desired region where navigation is desired inside or outside of the work area, a search unit that searches for a navigation route from a current location of the work machine to a desired location based on acquired information relating to the navigation-desired region, and a control unit that drives the work machine to run by driving the drive units in accordance with the navigation route searched by the search unit.