E02F 3/437
Providing automatic sequences of movements
Official title: {providing automatic sequences of movements, e.g. linear excavation, keeping dipper angle constant}
E02F3/437 (Providing automatic sequences of movements) appears on 387 US grants and 448 published applications in this corpus.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- System for autonomous excavation and truck loading171US 6,363,632 B1Carnegie Mellon University · 2002
- Automatic excavation control system and method139US 5,065,326 ACaterpillar Inc. · 1991
- Teaching automatic excavation control system and method97US 5,493,798 ACaterpillar Inc. · 1996
- Remote radio operating system, and remote operating apparatus, mobile relay station and radio mobile working machine92US 6,778,097 B1Shin Caterpillar Mitsubishi Ltd. · 2004
- Method and apparatus for determining an excavation strategy75US 6,108,949 ACarnegie Mellon University · 2000