Title
Autonomous Free-Form Trenching Using a Walking Excavator
Abstract
This letter shows accurate and autonomous creation of free-form trenches using a walking excavator. We present hardware extensions and modifications for full automation, a mapping approach specifically tailored to excavation, environment collision-free trajectory planning on these maps, an arm controller aware of various limits and an improved state machine that enables the execution on real hardware. Furthermore, previous work about excavation planning and the design of a single soil-independent dig cycle is extended and transferred from simulation to hardware. The entire system is tested on a four-segment, piecewise-planar trench, and a free-form curved trench. Both shapes were successfully excavated with unprecedented accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/LRA.2019.2925758
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
Robotics in Construction,Mining Robotics
Control theory,Excavation,Simulation,Finite-state machine,Automation,Control engineering,Excavator,Engineering,Trench,Free form,Servomotor
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
4
2377-3766
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.41
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dominic Jud142.22
Philipp Leemann210.41
Simon Kerscher310.75
Marco Hutter4598.36