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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAaron Keith Baughman, Jessica Nahulan, Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit, Carolina Garcia Delgado
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A system includes a scanning module, a force distribution module, and an unbalance prediction module. The scanning module generates a 3D model of a pile of material during a loading process and continuously updates the 3D model as at least one additional layer of material is added. The force distribution module compares the 3D model prior to depositing the at least one additional layer to the 3D model after depositing the at least one additional layer identifies at least one void space in the pile of material. The force distribution module further determines at least one force vector having a respective magnitude corresponding to the pile of material. The unbalance prediction module determines an unbalanced state of the pile of material based on the least one force vector and the at least one void space, and performs a corrective action on the pile of material that removes the unbalanced state.
A computer implemented method comprising:
A system comprising:
A computer program product to control a computer system to detect void spaces in a pile of material and estimate the unbalanced forces caused by the void spaces, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by an electronic computer processor to control the computer system to perform operations comprising:
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