PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a field-traveling apparatus which can be promptly and easily operated to change its traveling state when automatically traveling on a field, where crops are planted, according to the detection of presence or absence of crops.SOLUTION: A field-traveling apparatus includes: a crawler 12 driven when an apparatus body 11 is moved in a field where crops are to be planted, along a traveling direction a diagonal sensor 44 provided at the apparatus body 13 so that a detection direction faces diagonally forward to the traveling direction and a controller 24 controlling the driving state of the crawler 12 based on the detection result of crops by the oblique sensor 44.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】作物が植設された圃場を作物の有無検出に従って自動走行させる場合の走行状態の変更動作を迅速且つ容易に行うことができる圃場走行装置を提供する。【解決手段】作物が植設される圃場内で装置本体11を走行方向に沿って移動させるときに駆動されるクローラ12と、装置本体13に検出方向が走行方向に対して斜め前方を向くように設けられる斜方センサ44と、斜方センサ44による作物の検出結果に基づいてクローラ12の駆動状態を制御する制御部24とを備える。【選択図】図1
