System and method of automated clean out of carryback in surface haulage
AssigneeCaterpillar Inc.
InventorCarl F. B. Hendricks
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Abstract
A system for removing carryback material from within a dump body of a haul truck includes a clean out implement. A controller is configured to determine the pose of the dump body, determine the pose of the clean out implement, determine a path of the clean out implement to remove carryback material from the interior surface of the dump body based upon a map of the carryback material, the pose of the dump body, and the pose of the clean out implement, and generate movement command signals to move the clean out implement along the path to perform a clean out operation on the interior surface of the dump body.
Claims20
A system for removing carryback material from within a dump body of a haul truck, the system comprising:
- a dump body for hauling material, the dump body having an interior surface;
- a dump body pose sensor for generating dump body pose signals indicative of a pose of the dump body;
- a clean out implement for removing the carryback material from the interior surface of the dump body and disposed on a loading machine;
- a clean out implement pose sensor for generating clean out implement pose signals indicative of a pose of the clean out implement;
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- a controller configured to:
- access a map of the carryback material on the interior surface of the dump body;
- determine the pose of the dump body based upon the dump body pose signals;
- determine the pose of the clean out implement based upon the clean out implement pose signals;
- determine a path of the clean out implement to remove the carryback material from the interior surface of the dump body based upon the map of the carryback material, the pose of the dump body, and the pose of the clean out implement;
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- generate movement command signals to move the clean out implement along the path to perform a clean out operation on the interior surface of the dump body.
A method for removing carryback material from within a dump body of a haul truck comprising:
- accessing a map of the carryback material on an interior surface of the dump body;
- determining a pose of the dump body based upon dump body pose signals from a dump body pose sensor;
- determining a pose of a clean out implement based upon clean out implement pose signals from a clean out implement pose sensor, the clean out implement being disposed on a loading machine;
- determining a path of the clean out implement to remove the carryback material from the interior surface of the dump body based upon the map of the carryback material, the pose of the dump body, and the pose of the clean out implement;
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- generating movement command signals to move the clean out implement along the path to perform a clean out operation on the interior surface of the dump body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.