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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1998
Kiyoshi Kaneko, Urawa, JP;
Komatsu Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A teaching method includes dividing an automatic traveling course (,) into a plurality of zones before teaching, conducting teaching for each zone of a plurality of zones at the time of teaching so as to generate position coordinate data for each zone as course data for each zone, and combining course data for respective zones and store the same after teaching. An apparatus includes a teaching zone designating function section (,) for designating a zone inside an automatic traveling course (,) divided into a plurality of zones, a position coordinate data function section (,) of an unmanned vehicle (,), zone-specific traveling course data memory means (,), a teaching course data writing function section (,) for writing the position coordinate, a teaching data edit instruction function section (,) for outputting an instruction after the completion of teaching route, and a total traveling course data edit function section (,) for combining and editing the traveling course data. Thereby the change of teaching of the course can be made within a short time.