The Autonomous Loading System (ALS) completely automates the task of loading excavated material onto dump trucks.
The ALS robotic excavator is capable of loading trucks at the speed of an expert human operator, increasing productivity and improving the safety of excavation projects.
The excavator uses two scanning LADAR rangefinders to locate the truck, measure the soil face and detect obstacles. The ALS software decides where to dig in the soil, where to dump the excavated soil in the truck, and how to quickly move between these points while detecting and stopping for obstacles. The system modifies both its digging and dumping plans based on soil settling detected by its sensors.
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1999
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 175 - 186, September, 1999
Journal Article, ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 34 - 42, April, 1999
1998
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Mobile Robots XIII and Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 3525, pp. 146 - 156, November, 1998
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1885 - 1893, October, 1998
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