Lean Earthmoving in Dynamic Enivroments
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Volvo Construction Equipment AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 3 000 000 |
| Project duration | December 2013 - January 2018 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Transport Efficiency |
| End-of-project report | 2013-02655engelska.pdf (pdf, 520 kB) |
Important results from the project
Targets, as stated in the application, where: 1: A list of business potentials: Target met. Within this work, field studies has been carried out on customer sites, as well as experiments on radio communication for M2M. 2: A simulation system for macro perspective simulations of earthmoving operations: target partly met. The initial research, focusing on points of interest (POI) identification turned out to be challenging enough for a PhD-student. Hence the results of this work was never fed forward to a simulation system. 3. 1 PhD-degree. Target met.
Expected long term effects
Method to automatically detect points of interest (POI) in earthmoving processes, based on GPS-data Pilot test for a prototype system giving dynamic speed advice ot hauler and truck operations. Increased knowledge and understand of technologies for M2M communication for earthmoving operations. Recommendation for business model for commercialization of a Site Control Management system, based on a qualitative study performed in Volvo CE´s sales organisation. One pdh-degree from the Royal Institute of Technology.
Approach and implementation
The academic research has been based on measurements gathered in a quarry in the Stockholm area in Sweden. The applied research performed at Volvo Construction Equipment has been performed as field trials at customers, in real applications. Experiments on M2M communication has also been carried out at internal test tracks. An interview/qualitative study has also been carried out internally at Volvo to establish a possible business model for the above mentioned system.