Patent ID: 7966106
Filing Date: 2011-06-21
Classification: G05D

Abstract:
1. A control device for a guided travel of an unmanned vehicle, in which the unmanned vehicle is guided to travel along a running course so as to approach in a desired direction to a target discharge position as a target position where the unmanned vehicle performs a discharge operation at a discharge site, and is controlled to perform the discharge operation to discharge a load on the unmanned vehicle at the target discharge position, the control device comprising: running course generation means for, after obtaining a line normal to the survey line based on each of measured position data of a survey line at the discharge site, generating, based on the obtained normal line, data of a running course in which the target discharge position is set at a position in a prescribed distance away from the survey line and a direction to approach the target discharge position is normal to the survey line; and control means for guiding the unmanned vehicle to travel along the generated running course to the target discharge position, and operating the unmanned vehicle so as to discharge the load on the unmanned vehicle at the target discharge position after the unmanned vehicle reaches the target discharge position.