An acquisition processing part acquires a captured image from a camera which is installed on a work vehicle. A detection processing part detects an obstacle on the basis of the captured image which is acquired by the acquisition processing part. When an obstacle is detected by the detection processing part, a reception processing part receives a traveling stop instruction for stopping automatic traveling of the work vehicle or a traveling continuation instruction for continuing automatic traveling of the work vehicle. A traveling processing part stops the automatic traveling of the work vehicle when the reception processing part receives the traveling stop instruction, and continues the automatic traveling of the work vehicle when the reception processing part receives the traveling continuation instruction.

An automatic travel system includes a prohibition boundary line setter to set a prohibition boundary line beyond which the vehicle is prohibited from entering, a turning circle setter to set a virtual turning circle as a target route for entry turning travel to enter a subsequent travel route, a transition turning travel controller to control tangent following travel using a vehicle body reference point that is calculated during travel to the virtual turning circle as a target orientation, and the entry turning travel using the virtual turning circle as a turning target route, an interference boundary line detector to detect the prohibition boundary line that is present in a moving direction of the vehicle in the tangent following travel, as an interference boundary line, and an interference avoidance travel controller to control travel for avoiding interference with the interference boundary line.

An agricultural work assistance system includes a display to display a map representing an agricultural field, and 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 in the map displayed by the display, and a route creator to create, in at least one of the first area or the second area, a travel route along which an agricultural machine is to travel. The route creator is configured or programmed to set at least a portion of the travel route as an automatic steering route on which the agricultural machine is to be automatically steered and a travel speed of the agricultural machine is to be changed manually.

A method using a system and a system having at least one autonomous vehicle, with the autonomous vehicle having at least one drive, at least one brake, and at least one steering, with the vehicle having a navigation system, with the navigation system having a first radio receiver for a global navigation satellite system and a second radio receiver for a global navigation satellite system, with the first radio receiver and the second radio receiver being arranged at a predefined spacing on the vehicle, with the navigation system having a control and evaluation unit to which the first radio receiver and the second radio receiver are connected, with the control and evaluation unit having two independent processor units, with the control and evaluation unit being configured to evaluate the position data of the first radio receiver and the position data of the second radio receiver using both processor units and to compare them with one another, and with the control and evaluation unit being configured to generate checked position data on a valid agreement of the position data.

A system for determining a crop edge and a self-propelled harvester using the system for automatic control are disclosed. The system comprises a camera that generates optical information of a front environment of the harvester. The system further includes a computing unit that analyzes the images using artificial intelligence so that a planted area of a field on which a plant crop is located may be delimited from a remaining residual area of the field, thereby determining the plant crop. In turn, the computing unit is further configured to determine the crop edge of the plant crop based on the determination of the plant crop and to automatically control the harvester based on the determination of the crop edge.

A setting processing unit sets a predetermined turning route among a plurality of turning routes having different turning methods, for each of a plurality of work paths included in a field where a work vehicle autonomously travels in accordance with a target route and sets the target route including the turning route set for each of the plurality of work paths and a work route set corresponding to the field.

Some embodiments may include a working machine to perform one or more work tasks in a work area, the working machine comprising: a machine localization system to localize the working machine based on perception sensor observations indicative of data embedded on one or more markers placed in the work area or proximate to the work area, wherein the working machine obtains localization data responsive to reading one or more machine-readable optical images on the one or more markers, respectively, wherein the working machine determines, using the obtained localization data, an absolute position of the working machine or one or more absolute positons of the one or more markers, respectively; and wherein the working machine performs the one or more work tasks based on the determined absolution position(s). Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.

An autonomous ground vehicle for agricultural plant and soil management operations. According to some embodiments, autonomous ground vehicle includes: one or more camera units configured to generate images, an energy storage unit, a solar panel unit, a solar panel control mechanism, a first mechanical arm having a first end effector, an electronic memory storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions; one or more processors in electronic communication with the electronic memory storage medium, configured to execute the computer-executable instructions stored in an electronic memory storage medium for implementing a method of for agricultural plant and soil management operations.

A route setting device is provided with a status confirmation part and a change route setting part. The status confirmation part receives, with respect to a work vehicle that is moving along a preset work route in a field, an instruction by which the work vehicle moves to a stop position not included in the work route, and acquires the position of the work vehicle. The change route setting part creates a change route along which the work vehicle moves to the stop position on the basis of the instruction. The starting point of the change route represents the position of the work vehicle at a time when a waiting time for change equaling or exceeding a delay time set on the basis of the processing time for creating the change route has elapsed after receiving the instruction.

A detection process unit detects an error of at least any of a plurality of work vehicles. A report process unit causes, when an error of a work vehicle among the plurality of work vehicles is detected, specific information on the work vehicle to be reported at an operation terminal communicable with each of the plurality of work vehicles.