Excavator and control apparatus for excavator
AssigneeSumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorTsutomu ITO
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Abstract
An excavator includes a lower traveling body; an upper turning body turnably mounted to the lower traveling body; an actuator configured to change an orientation of the upper turning body; and a control apparatus configured to perform front-face control to operate the actuator such that the upper turning body is caused to front-face a target surface, based on information regarding the target surface and information regarding the orientation of the upper turning body, wherein the control apparatus performs the front-face control such that the upper turning body maintains a state of front-facing the target surface.
Claims15
An excavator comprising:
- a lower traveling body;
- an upper turning body turnably mounted to the lower traveling body;
- an actuator configured to change an orientation of the upper turning body;
- and
- a control apparatus configured to perform front-face control to operate the actuator such that the upper turning body is caused to front-face a target surface, based on information regarding the target surface and information regarding the orientation of the upper turning body, wherein
- the control apparatus performs the front-face control such that the upper turning body maintains a state of front-facing the target surface.
An excavator comprising:
- a lower traveling body;
- an upper turning body turnably mounted to the lower traveling body;
- an attachment to be attached to the upper turning body;
- an actuator configured to change an orientation of the upper turning body;
- and
- a control apparatus configured to perform front-face control to operate the actuator such that the upper turning body is caused to front-face a target surface, based on information regarding the target surface and information regarding the orientation of the upper turning body, wherein the control apparatus starts performing
- the front-face control when the upper turning body is operated to turn in a direction such that the attachment comes near the target surface.
A control apparatus of an excavator, the excavator including a lower traveling body;
- an upper turning body turnably mounted to the lower traveling body;
- and an actuator configured to change an orientation of the upper turning body, wherein
- the control apparatus is configured to perform front-face control to operate the actuator such that the upper turning body is caused to front-face a target surface, based on information regarding the target surface and information regarding the orientation of the upper turning body, and to perform the front-face control such that the upper turning body maintains a state of front-facing the target surface.
A control apparatus of an excavator, the excavator including a lower traveling body;
- an upper turning body turnably mounted to the lower traveling body;
- an attachment to be attached to the upper turning body;
- and an actuator configured to change an orientation of the upper turning body, wherein
- the control apparatus is configured to perform front-face control to operate the actuator such that the upper turning body is caused to front-face a target surface, based on information regarding the target surface and information regarding the orientation of the upper turning body, and to start performing the front-face control when the upper turning body is operated to turn in a direction such that the attachment comes near the target surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.