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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2015
Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Masanori Ichinose, Tokyo, JP;
Yukihiko Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Shinjiro Saito, Tsuchiura, JP;
Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To make a transport vehicle stop close to a bund in dependence on the shape of the bund. A stop position determining device for a transport vehicle includes: a bund identification module () that identifies the shape of a bund () provided on a traveling surface based on information from an external sensor () provided on the transport vehicle; and a target stop position calculation module () that calculates a target stop position (SP) for the transport vehicle based on the shape of the bund identified by the bund identification module.