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US 12,522,291 · App. 18/675,675 · Granted Jan 13, 2026

Automatic traveling vehicle

Inventors: Shuhei Ishikawa (Kobe, JP); Taichi Inaba (Kobe, JP); Kazuya Nagasaka (Kobe, JP); Takahiro Yano (Akashi, JP); Toru Minami (Akashi, JP)
Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
B62D11/02G05D1/49A01D34/008A01D2101/00G05D2105/15
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Patent No.
US 12,522,291
App. No.
18/675,675
Granted
Jan 13, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An automatic traveling vehicle includes a driving source, a left driving wheel and a right driving wheel to which a driving force from the driving source is transmitted, and that rotate independently from each other, a left manipulator and a right manipulator that control an actual rotational speed of the left driving wheel and an actual rotational speed of the right driving wheel, respectively, and a left actuator and a right actuator that operate the left manipulator and the right manipulator, respectively. The automatic traveling vehicle further includes a control circuit that includes an operated amount controller that controls the operated amount so that the actual rotational speed becomes a predetermined target rotational speed on the basis of a correlation map between a rotational speed of the driving wheel and the operated amount of the actuator. The control circuit includes a corrector that calculates a difference between the actual rotational speed and the target rotational speed, and that corrects the operated amount so as to bring the actual rotational speed closer to the target rotational speed.

Claims (13)

1 . An automatic traveling vehicle comprising:

a driving source;

a left driving wheel and a right driving wheel to which a driving force of the driving source is transmitted, and that rotate independently from each other;

a left manipulator and a right manipulator that control an actual rotational speed of the left driving wheel and an actual rotational speed of the right driving wheel, respectively;

a left actuator and a right actuator that actuate the left manipulator and the right manipulator, respectively; and

a control circuit including an operated amount controller that controls an operated amount based on a correlation map between a rotational speed of the driving wheels and the operated amount of the actuator, so that the actual rotational speed becomes a predetermined target rotational speed.

2 . The automatic traveling vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the control circuit includes a corrector that calculates a difference between the actual rotational speed and the target rotational speed, and that corrects the operated amount so as to bring the actual rotational speed closer to the target rotational speed.

3 . The automatic traveling vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the corrector corrects the operated amount, on the basis of any one of proportional control (P control), a combination of proportional control and integral control (PI control), a combination of proportional control and differential control (PD control), and a combination of proportional control, integral control, and differential control (PID control).

4 . The automatic traveling vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the control circuit includes an updater that updates the correlation map based on a correlation between the operated amount corrected by the corrector and the actual rotational speed.

5 . The automatic traveling vehicle according to claim 1 , further comprises:

a speed detector that detects a traveling speed of the automatic traveling vehicle in a horizontal direction; and

a yaw rate detector that detects a yaw rate about a vertical direction of the automatic traveling vehicle, wherein

the control circuit includes a rotational speed estimator that estimates the actual rotational speed of the left driving wheel and the actual rotational speed of the right driving wheel, based on the traveling speed detected by the speed detector and the yaw rate detected by the yaw rate detector.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 6, 2024
From: ISHIKAWA, SHUHEI; INABA, TAICHI; NAGASAKA, KAZUYA; YANO, TAKAHIRO; MINAMI, TORU
To: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
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Continuity (1)
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