US 12,190,602 B2
Working vehicle, obstacle detection method, and obstacle detection program
Takashi Nakabayashi, Sakai (JP); Toshiki Watanabe, Sakai (JP); Shunsuke Edo, Sakai (JP); Shunsuke Miyashita, Sakai (JP); and Kenichi Iwami, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to Kubota Corporation, Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/603,452
Filed by Kubota Corporation, Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed May 20, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/019933
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 13, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/261824, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-117488 (JP), filed on Jun. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0207882 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 20/58 (2022.01); A01B 69/04 (2006.01); B60K 35/00 (2024.01); B60K 35/28 (2024.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06V 20/58 (2022.01) [A01B 69/008 (2013.01); G06T 11/00 (2013.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G08G 1/16 (2013.01); B60K 35/00 (2013.01); B60K 35/28 (2024.01); B60K 2360/16 (2024.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A working vehicle capable of operation and driving, comprising:
a plurality of image capture devices that capture an image of surroundings of a vehicle body;
a direction detection unit that detects an advancement direction of the operation and driving;
an image selection unit that acquires, as a detection image, a surrounding area image captured by one image capture device of the plurality of image capture devices capturing a front advancement direction detected by the direction detection unit;
a detection unit that analyzes the detection image acquired by the image selection unit and detects an obstacle; and
an automated driving control unit that executes automated driving control of the operation and driving by executing pre-set actions in order,
wherein, when the vehicle body is a predetermined distance before a position where a next action of the pre-set actions is started, and before a transition from a current action of the pre-set actions to the next action, the image selection unit selectively acquires, as the detection image, an image from a first image capture device of the plurality of image capture devices in a front advancement direction of the next action, the front advancement direction of the next action being different than the front advancement direction of the current action, and the first image capture device being different than an image capture device of the plurality of image capture devices configured to capture images in the front advancement direction of the current action, and
wherein, in response to the detection unit detecting the obstacle in the image in the front advancement direction of the next action, the automated driving control unit stops a transition to the next action until the obstacle is no longer detected.