System and method for optimizing a cut location

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9014922-B2
Application number	US-201213722399-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 20, 2012
Priority date	Dec 20, 2012
Publication date	Apr 21, 2015
Grant date	Apr 21, 2015

Abstract

A system for determining a cut location at a work surface includes a position sensor and a controller. The controller stores a desired operating parameter and a final design plane of the work surface and determines an actual profile of the work surface. The controller determines a plurality of target profiles corresponding to different cut locations. The target profiles are based at least in part upon the cut location, a loading profile, slot parameters, and the actual profile of the work surface. The controller further determines an optimized target profile relative to the desired operating parameter and the optimized target profile defines an optimized cut location.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system for determining an optimized cut location for a work implement of a machine along a work surface, comprising:
a position sensor associated with the machine for generating position signals indicative of a position of the work surface;
a controller configured to:
store a desired operating parameter;
receive position signals from the position sensor;
determine the position of the work surface based upon the position signals to define an ac…

Assignees

• Caterpillar Inc

Inventors

• Edara Thandava K
• Taylor Michael
• Felty Timothy
• Wei Mo

Classifications

• G05B15/02

  Physics · mapped topic

• E02F9/262

  Fixed Constructions · mapped topic

• G05B13/024 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• E02F9/261

  Fixed Constructions · mapped topic

• E02F9/205 Primary

  Fixed Constructions · mapped topic