摘要 |
A method for controlling an excavation device in one or more of the following phases of operation: digging, moving to spoil, dumping, recovery and return, the method including the steps of: providing a finite state machine having state variables reflecting the different phases of operation, including, digging, dumping, moving to dump location, return to dig, and bucket recover; determining current machine state depending on the position of the device; and modifying the operational behaviour of a one or more subordinate controllers in response to the current state. |