Hydraulic excavators perform numerous tasks in the construction and mining industry. Although ground grading is a common task, proper grading cannot easily be achieved. Grading requires an experienced operator to control the boom, arm, and bucket cylinders in a rapid and coordinated manner. Due to this reason, automated grade control is being considered as an effective alternative to conventional human-operated ground grading. In this paper, a path-planning method based on a 2D kinematic model and inverse kinematics is used to determine the desired trajectory of an excavator's boom, arm, and bucket cylinders. Then, the developed path planning method and PI control algorithms for the three cylinders are verified by a simple excavator model developed in Simulink®. The simulation results show that the automated grade control algorithm can grade level or with reduced operation time and error.


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    Title :

    Automated Grading Operation for Hydraulic Excavators


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE 2014 Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress ; 2014



    Publication date :

    2014-09-30




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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