AR technology blessing, sitting in the office remotely driving an excavator is not a dream
Does the remote excavator sound fun? If you add a set of AR system, will it be tall all at once? Sri international, a public welfare research institution in California, is intelligently transforming the original heavy excavator to make the excavator operation like playing games.Excavator accessories
The control of traditional excavators is very intuitive. In order to move the bucket up and down, the operator on the vehicle needs to move the joystick and other controls left and right. Reuben brewer, the leader of Sri international project, said: “the operation of traditional excavators is too cumbersome, complex and confusing! Moreover, operators also need intensive training to learn how to avoid buried natural gas pipelines, water pipes and Internet cables, so as to dig accurate holes in the ground.”
Therefore, Sri international researchers have upgraded the excavator automation. The operation of their intelligent excavator is more intuitive, and the operator does not need to sit in the driver’s seat. They can control it remotely through the Internet.
Reuben brewer calls the system an “automation suite” that can be installed on any existing manual excavator and operate like playing a video game. They connect the lever and pedal on the manual excavator to the handheld remote control. As long as they are connected to the network, users can control the excavator in real time through the remote control. They installed six cameras on the hood of the excavator to provide a 360 degree panoramic view of the scene for remote users. Wearing oculus VR head display, remote users can start excavation through the remote control in their hands. The controller supports all excavation actions. At the same time, the advanced software of the system can track the position of the controller in real time and imitate the user’s actions with the excavator arm. This ar remote control technology can make users feel like sitting in the cab of an excavator.Excavator accessories
In fact, as early as 2015, Volvo launched a similar concept product. However, compared with Volvo, the AR remote control system of Sri international is safer and more practical. When the camera on the excavator detects someone nearby, the system will automatically freeze the excavation action or force the excavator to slow down. It is very important for the efficient design of these elements in large pedestrian areas.
In addition, unlike some previous automated excavation projects, the vision of the project is not to get rid of manual operation (although the company has also programmed the excavator to stop automatically). After all, a certain degree of manual judgment is still required in the excavation process. Instead, the project aims to improve personnel safety while providing operational assistance, Reuben Brewer said.
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Post time: Apr-14-2022
