Development of Offroad Unmanned Dump Truck Navigation System.

Comparative Research on Optimal Damping Matching of Seat System for an off-Highway Dump Truck

To protect the driver of off-highway dump trucks from the harmful vibration, this paper presents the comparison results to determine the optimal damping of the seat system by different optimization design plans. Three optimization schemes are considered including individually optimizing the damping of the cushion, individually optimizing the damping of the seat suspension, and integrately optim...

[Occupational deafness in dump truck drivers].

Autonomous Offroad Navigation Under Poor GPS Conditions

This paper describes an approach for autonomous offroad navigation for the Civilian European Landrobot Trial 2009 (C-ELROB). The main focus in this paper is how to cope with poor GPS conditions such as occurring in forest environments. Therefore the expected and detected problems are stated, and methods how to achieve good autonomous driving performance due to less weigthing of inaccurate GPS i...

Behaviour-based Motion Control for Offroad Navigation

Many tasks examined for robotic application like rescue missions or humanitarian demining require a robotic vehicle to navigate in unstructured natural terrain. This paper introduces a motion control for a four-wheeled offroad vehicle trying to tackle the problems arising. These include rough ground, steep slopes, wheel slippage, skidding and others that are difficult to grasp with a physical m...

Feedback Linearization Control for Path Tracking of Articulated Dump Truck

The articulated dump truck is a widespread transport vehicle for narrow rough terrain environment. To achieve the autonomous driving in the underground tunnel, this article proposes a path following strategy -for articulated vehicle based on feedback linearization algorithm. First of all, the kinematic model of articulated vehicle, which reflects the relationship between the structure parameter...