Development of autonomous dump trucks system (HIVACS) in heavy construction sites

Author

Saito, H. ; Sugiura, H. ; Yuta, S.

Author_Institution

Tech. Res. Inst., Hazama Corp., Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1995

fDate

21-27 May 1995

Firstpage

2524

Abstract

This paper describes an autonomous dump trucks system called Hazama Intelligent Vehicle Automatic Control System (HIVACS) being developed to overcome worker shortage problems and to prevent accidents in heavy construction sites (i.e., dam construction, road construction, etc.). If this system is applied to the aggregate carriage on a RCD (Roller Compacted Dam) construction site, this system operates five dump trucks without drivers. It is anticipated that this system will enable 17% labor-saving. The algorithm of unmanned operation control is based the “Yamabico” robot that is currently under study at University of Tsukuba. A test vehicle for autonomous dump trucks is developed in this study

Keywords

CCD image sensors; computer vision; construction industry; laser ranging; mobile robots; position measurement; telerobotics; velocity measurement; HIVACS; Hazama Intelligent Vehicle Automatic Control System; Yamabico robot; autonomous dump trucks system; dam construction; heavy construction sites; road construction; unmanned operation control; worker shortage problems; Aggregates; Automatic control; Construction industry; Control systems; Costs; Productivity; Radio control; Roads; Robotics and automation; Transportation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1995. Proceedings., 1995 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nagoya

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1965-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1995.525638

Filename

525638