Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Construction or agricultural-type vehicle
Patent
1997-01-06
1999-10-19
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Construction or agricultural-type vehicle
172 45, 37348, G06F 770, G06F 1900
Patent
active
059681039
ABSTRACT:
An electrohydraulic control system for loading a bucket of an earthmoving machine includes sensors for producing machine parameter signals representative of how strongly the machine is crowding the pile of material to be loaded. A command signal generator monitors crowd factors corresponding to the sensed parameters to determine when the bucket contacts the pile, then generates bucket lift hydraulic cylinder command signals to maintain a traction force. The command signal generator next determines from the crowd factors when the pile is engaged near the machine capacity, then generates bucket tilt hydraulic cylinder command signals in proportion to the monitored crowd factors to rack the bucket at rates calculated to efficiently capture the material.
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PCT Application--WO 95/33896 Sensor Feedback Control for Automated Bucket Loading.
Arthur Gertrude
Caterpillar Inc.
Cuchlinski Jr. William A.
Hudson Marla L.
Kibby Steven G.
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