Path planning system for self-driving agricultural machine

Abstract

A path planning system for an agricultural machine performing self-driving includes a storage to store a map including fields, waiting areas, and a road connecting the fields and waiting areas to each other, and a processor configured or programmed to generate a path on the map for the agricultural machine for each of working days. The processor is configured or programmed to determine, from the waiting areas, a specific waiting area to which the agricultural machine is to move after performing a final task of agricultural work on each working day, based on information representing at least one of a growing state of crop in the fields, a state of progress of agricultural work in the fields, a state of planting in the fields and a state of weather, and generate a path from the field where the final task of agricultural work is to be performed, to the specific waiting area.