Patent Document ID: 20140081532
Application ID: 14087988
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of controlling a self-propelled civil engineering machine for movement in a reference system fixed relative to a ground surface, the machine including a working unit configured to produce a structure on the ground surface or to make changes to the ground surface, the method comprising: (a) defining a defined shape independent from the reference system fixed relative to the ground surface; (b) defining a desired position and orientation of the defined shape in the reference system fixed relative to the ground surface; (c) determining on the basis of the defined shape and the desired position and orientation of the defined shape, path data in the reference system fixed relative to the ground surface; (d) determining of data which defines a position and orientation of the civil engineering machine in relation to the reference system fixed relative to the ground surface; and (e) controlling of the civil engineering machine as a function of the path data, in such a way that the working unit produces the structure or makes the changes to the ground surface according to the defined shape and in the desired position and orientation in the reference system fixed relative to the ground surface.