US 12,446,482 B2
Agricultural work assistance system, agricultural work assistance apparatus, and agricultural machine
Takanori Morimoto, Sakai (JP); Takafumi Morishita, Sakai (JP); Kenji Tamatani, Sakai (JP); Fumiya Yoshimura, Sakai (JP); Ryota Kikuchi, Sakai (JP); and Ken Sakuta, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to KUBOTA CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Filed by KUBOTA CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/511,471.
Application 18/511,471 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/012181, filed on Mar. 17, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-084022 (JP), filed on May 18, 2021; and application No. 2021-153541 (JP), filed on Sep. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0081167 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. A01B 69/04 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01)
CPC A01B 69/008 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0212 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An agricultural work assistance system comprising:
a display to display a map representing an agricultural field;
a controller configured or programmed to define or function as:
an area setter to set a first area and a second area located inward of the first area on the map displayed by the display; and
a route creator to create, in the first area and the second area, a travel route or a series of travel routes along which an agricultural machine is automatically controlled to travel; wherein
the route creator is configured or programmed to:
set at least a portion of the travel route or of the series of travel routes created in the first area and the second area as an automatic steering route on which the agricultural machine is to be steered automatically and a travel speed of the agricultural machine is to be manually changed; and
set at least another portion of the travel route or of the series of travel routes created in the first area and the second area as an automatic operation route on which the agricultural machine is to be steered automatically and the travel speed of the agricultural machine is to be changed automatically, the at least another portion being at least a portion of the travel route or of the series of travel routes other than the at least the portion set as the automatic steering route.