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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2021
Sumitomo Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Takeya Izumikawa, Chiba, JP;
SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A shovel including a lower-part traveling body, an upper-part swiveling body which is enabled to swivel and is mounted to the lower-part traveling body, an actuator, and a control device that implements a first control process that causes the actuator to act autonomously, and a second control process that causes the actuator to act autonomously, wherein the control device is configured to select one control unit from among a plurality of control units that implements the first control process and the second control process, as a priority control process that is given priority to act, in a case where a conflict is judged to occur among the plurality of control units that implements the first control process and the second control process.