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Development of a Machine Control Technology and Productivity Evaluation for Excavator

굴착기 머신 콘트롤 기술 개발 및 생산성 향상 평가

  • Lee, Min Su (Korea Construction Equipment Technology Institute) ;
  • Shin, Young Il (Korea Construction Equipment Technology Institute) ;
  • Choi, Seung Joon (Korea Construction Equipment Technology Institute) ;
  • Kang, Han Byul (Korea Construction Equipment Technology Institute) ;
  • Cho, Ki Yong (Korea Construction Equipment Technology Institute)
  • Received : 2019.11.25
  • Accepted : 2020.02.18
  • Published : 2020.03.01

Abstract

An intelligent excavator can be divided into Machine Guidance (MG), semi-automatic, and unmanned by technology. The MG technology excavator is equipped with a tilt sensor on each link of the excavator and a GPS is installed on the excavator body to inform the user of the position of the excavator bucket end. Machine control (MC) technology that assists the user's work can be divided into semi-automatic and fully automatic technology. The semi-automatic MC equipment has already been commercialized by Komatsu and Caterpillar. The MC excavator is equipped with an electro-hydraulic system, sensors and controllers to control the excavator bucket end according to the user's needs. In this study, the semi-automated excavator modified based on manual excavator, is equipped with an electro-hydraulic system, a controller system, multi-sensors and a control algorithm is developed to assist in excavation work such as leveling and grading. By applying the developed technology, it was possible to confirm productivity improvement compared to manual digging and leveling work. In the future, further research to improve the accuracy of the hydraulic precision control and collaborative work with heterogeneous construction equipment such as dump truck and automated collaboration tasks technology could be developed.

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