Study undertaken by U S Army to determine feasibility and requirements for remote controlled construction tractor and examples of Caterpillar D-7 tractor, construction type tractor dozer and crawler tractor, etc; military advantages of remote controlled bulldozers are -- battlefield construction, breaching chemical, radiological, or biological barrier zones, fire fighting, and negotiating polar terrain; commercial applications are open pit mining, fire fighting, operations in toxic atmospheres, and others.


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    Title :

    Remote and automatic control of tractors


    Additional title:

    SAE -- Paper


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE Meeting ; 1962 Remote control



    Publication date :

    1962


    Size :

    5 pages


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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