Piling hammer and method for striking pile

Abstract

There is provided a linear electric machine comprising a mover connected to a ram block for striking a pile, a processor operatively connected to the linear electric machine and configured to determine a total target kinetic energy for striking a pile using a ram block connected to a mover of a linear electric machine of the piling hammer, determine a first portion of the total target kinetic energy for striking the pile at least based on a mass of the ram block, determine a second portion of the total target kinetic energy for striking the pile based on the total target kinetic energy and the first portion of the total target kinetic energy, and control the linear electric machine to accelerate the mover based on the determined second portion of the kinetic energy for striking the pile by the linear electric machine.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.