Paver haul truck grouping
AssigneeCaterpillar Paving Products Inc.
InventorsJacob J. McAlpine, John L. Marsolek
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Abstract
A method of establishing a desired flow of haul trucks with respect to a jobsite can include receiving, from a paver locating device, a paver location signal indicative of a location of a paver. A central computer can establish a desired location range of the first haul truck based on the paver location signal and a first haul truck location signal.
Claims20
A system for monitoring haul truck positioning, the system comprising:
- a paver locating device couplable to a paver and configured to produce a paver location signal indicative of a location of the paver;
- a haul truck locating device securable to a haul truck, the haul truck locating device configured to produce a haul truck location signal;
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- a central computer configured to:
- determine a location of the haul truck based on the haul truck location signal;
- determine a jobsite boundary of a paving jobsite based on the paver location signal or a predetermined location of the jobsite;
- define a desired location range of the haul truck based on the paver location signal, the jobsite boundary, and the haul truck location signal;
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- produce an alert when the location of the haul truck is outside the desired location range.
A method of establishing a desired flow of haul trucks with respect to a jobsite, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a paver locating device, a paver location signal indicative of a location of a paver;
- receiving, from a first haul truck locating device, a first haul truck location signal indicative of a location of the first haul truck;
- establishing a jobsite geofence indicative of a boundary of the jobsite;
- establishing, by a central computer, a desired location range of the first haul truck based on the paver location signal, the jobsite geofence signal, a paving activity of the paver, and the first haul truck location signal;
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- producing an alert when the location of the first haul truck is outside the desired location range.
A method of establishing a desired flow of haul trucks with respect to a jobsite, the method comprising:
- receiving, from a paver locating device, a paver location signal indicative of a location of a paver;
- receiving, from a first haul truck locating device, a first haul truck location signal indicative of a location of a first haul truck;
- receiving, from a second haul truck locating device, a second haul truck location signal indicative of a location of a second haul truck;
- establishing, by a central computer, a desired location range of the first haul truck based on the paver location signal, the first haul truck location signal, and the second haul truck location signal;
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- producing an alert when the location of the first haul truck is outside the desired location range.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.