The electrification of mobile hydraulics is underway. It creates opportunities and challenges. To succeed - while optimizing development time, system performances, and resources - OEMs and system integrators create digital twins to improve engineering analysis and concept validation. Innovative design and simulation are demonstrated using Automation Studio™ on multi-technological autonomous driving systems containing an electrical drive and 2 steering modes (Orbitrol and Steer-by-wire). Hydraulic systems are modeled using preconfigured components from manufacturers’ catalogues. Performances are also simulated from a 3D Manifold block design. The electrohydraulic system is co-simulated with an external controller. Road conditions and HMI will also be implemented.

What the audience will learn

• How to create an accurate digital twin of an autonomous machine using catalogues of preconfigured hydraulic and electrical components
• How to analyze charge-discharge cycles by calculating energy recovered in a battery from a hydraulic transmission and implements
• How to test and analyze various steering configurations to switch from manual to autonomous driving mode
• How to develop control algorithms efficiently by co-simulating a controller with a virtual machine
• How to simulate a manifold block’s performances with its 3D geometry in a complete machine simulated model

Uncrewed ground vehicle use in the private sector presents some of the most challenging applications of autonomous technology. Whether in mining, construction, or agriculture, the complexity of the environment that developers must address increases the uncertainty of UGV operation – and the risk of tort liability. This presentation considers a scenario where the UGV damages a third party, rather than affecting a contractual counterparty, and outlines concepts of extra-contractual responsibility, agency, and tort liability.

What the audience will learn

• Dynamic factors to consider when determining a safety case for UGV testing for companies aiming to innovate and capitalize on industry disruption
• Potential extra-contractual responsibility or “liability” frameworks developing at state, federal and international levels
• Why the law might differentiate between the teleoperated UGV and the autonomous UGV
• Complexities presented by artificial intelligence (AI) for traditional tort liability frameworks, including concepts of foreseeable harm and agency

Autonomy for off-road vehicles or equipment doesn’t have to be complex. MACH embraces a straightforward and transparent process to incorporate customized autonomous or automation technologies suitable for the most rugged and challenging applications. This presentation will cover the lessons learned deploying over 350 autonomous vehicles and covering 80,000 driverless miles.

What the audience will learn

• Safety considerations in off-road environments.
• Humans-in-the-loop. Half automation is tougher than full automation.
• What can go wrong, will go wrong.
• Useful metrics for judging autonomous system performance.

In the race to field off-highway autonomous systems, there is a lack of understanding of their capabilities. The NATO Science and Technology Organization Advanced Vehicle Technology Panel’s AVT-341 Research Task Group (RTG) is conducting activities to define methods and tools to assess future autonomous military vehicles operating in harsh environments. It is important to anticipate advancements by defining adequate methods and tools to assess autonomous systems. This paper presents the activities of NATO AVT-341 RTG, the achievements and challenges that were faced and an application of the modelling and simulation tools utilized to perform an assessment of militarily relevant scenarios.

What the audience will learn

• How NATO Science and Technology Organization developed the requirements for assessing mobility and resulting methods for verification and validation.
• The efforts required to develop modelling and simulation tools for the assessment of off-road mobility in harsh environments.
• The approach to developing an autonomy stack capable of path planning, object identification, terrain segmentation, obstacle avoidance and more.
• How the approach and methods developed can also be applied to commercial applications in mining, construction, etc.
• The challenges and lessons-learned from implementing proof-of-concept operational scenarios.

In the control of off-highway equipment every milliamp matters. Husco has benchmarked over 100 machines and worked with countless OEMs developing and fine-tuning hydraulics systems. Today over 95% of new systems developed have electro-hydraulic content included and increasingly expected to be automation ready – but how easy is the step to enable precision automation? How do you move from operator to software control? This study walks through some of the key control challenges and uses data from real system testing to highlight the key challenges and methods used to enable fast, precise, robust, repeatable control of any electro-hydraulic system.

What the audience will learn

• Automation, safety, and worksite technology advances driving need for electrohydraulic controls
• Detail on how software, controllers, drivers, electro-hydraulic hardware, and machine geometry are all sources of potential system control variation
• How to enable machine controls to be more repeatable, productive, and efficient across products
• How a Hydraulic Control Unit (HCU) system enables OEMs engineers to focus on their value add, not on compensating for control errors

The last decade of robotic advances in manipulation, sensing and computing is now enabling the use of robots in less structured environments, such as construction and agriculture. Collaborative robotics offer the opportunity to assist humans in repetitive, hazardous and strenuous tasks while simultaneously improving safety. While safety standards for automated industrial equipment exist, there is a gap between these legacy standards and the possibilities that state-of-the-art technology is now enabling. Standards bodies and industrial working groups are now driving to close these gaps to enable the safe application of highly automated work machines in these environments. More to be discussed...

What the audience will learn

• Approaches to achieving safe human-robot collaboration while leveraging state-of-the-art technologies in construction environments are going to be discussed
• Safety Standards
• State-of-the-art technology behind the safety

Autonomy has the potential to transform mining and construction. Delivering substantial benefits such as improved Safety, productivity, and efficiency. The mining industry has been an early adaptor and has experimented with limited autonomy on project bases for quite a few years. In the past ten years, the automotive industry has caught up and introduced new capabilities and technologies that are now being deployed in both mining and construction. In this presentation, we will explore how open standards and automation are enabling leading OEMs to conduct large-scale testing programs and deploy commercially on multiple sites. Specifically, The ASAM OpenSCENARIOV2.0.0 (OSC2) standard introduces multiple disruptive features to increase productivity and robustness of advanced automation function that allows: - Aggregating expertise into reusable scenarios that can be shared and tuned to any ODD, user map, or project needs - Quick and easy adjustment of the scenarios to project requirements with minimal knowledge - Ability to combine scenarios in a modular way to efficiently create and maintain complex scenarios - Share measurable metrics, KPI and success criteria.

Every year, thousands of operators are exposed to accidents related to heavy machinery equipment. The cabin is the first protective element to ensure the operator's safety. Hence the cabin becomes a critical element of Heavy Machinery development. Combining safety, comfort, intelligence, and performance is the first element considered by the buyers of machines and especially by the operators themselves. To meet today's industry safety requirements, manufacturers need innovative tools to imagine and design safe cabin structures in case of falling objects or rollover machines, which will be covered during this session.

As the construction industry continues to invest in new products and processes to improve safety on the job site, many companies are investing in remote control for their mobile machinery. The reasons for this investment can include the ability to remove the operator from hazardous environments, seamlessly control machines across multiple work sites, and expand access to a wider pool of operators. However, deploying remote control on a work site comes with a variety of challenges that are unique to each site and can often require changes to the currently implemented processes.

What the audience will learn

• Brief Overview of Cat Command Remote Control Products
• Types of Applications that are suitable for Remote Control
• Challenges to overcome when deploying Remote Control on a work site

We examined the implications of implementing automation of shuttle cars in underground coal mining operations using work analysis techniques. Interviews and analyses highlight recommendations for the development and deployment of automation. The effects of introducing automation on the traditional vehicle operator role and other impacted members within the work domain are examined. Results include the development of a prototype human-machine interface design of a tablet-based control system for shuttle car operators to control pathing and movement commands as well as the communication structure across systems within the underground mining section.

What the audience will learn

• Strategies to implement automation with a focus on organizational impact and safety
• Designing an interface and conveying relevant automation system information to necessary users
• Review of metrics to use to evaluate technology implementation effectiveness and safety

Gone are the days when the complete system was be done by a single developer and even a single company, instead we rely on systems from 3rd party providers, sometimes resulting in a vehicle cabin with a plethora of diverse displays and systems. At the same time, there is a drive towards better user experiences, operator support systems and productivity tools that can be improved over the machine lifetime. In this speech we will look into approaches for computation hardware and software that can enable realization of new and coming system functionality to realize homogenous and upgradeable operator environments.

What the audience will learn

• A good user interaction for safe and effective operation
• How a good software framework can enable integration of HMI functionality on displays for a homogenous experience.
• Hardware and software integration that enables new functionalllity, interaction and development speed.

Touch-based input is one of the most intuitive forms of human-machine interaction. The current and future generation of operators expects that an input device can also be operated via touch. But not in every application is a touch screen the ideal way to control machines and systems. We are addressing the following questions: How are current and future HMI technologies being transformed into industrial vehicle applications? How can today's state of the art touch systems be designed in such a way that the operators keep their eyes and focus on the machine and not on the screen?

What the audience will learn

• Current and future HMI technologies being transformed into industrial vehicle applications
• How can blind operation of HMIs be realized
• Technologies of intuitive touch operation surfaces
• Inside into the European and Global Market for HMI Systems

For today’s OEM designers and manufacturers, developing the latest custom vehicle lighting designs for electric and hybrid vehicles in construction, agricultural, industrial, commercial and off-highway industries is a complicated endeavor. With a focus on improving operator and workforce safety and enhancing cabin design, the high mix of components, complexity of assembly and stringent testing requirements represent just a small sample of the lighting challenges to overcome. Guided by an unwavering passion for incorporating new technology into OEM designs, hear how a U.S.-based LED lighting manufacturer is using cutting-edge additive manufacturing technologies to develop the next generation of innovative vehicle lighting solutions while solving new challenges such as enhanced safety measures, supply chain, profitability, and production times. Join us to learn more!

What the audience will learn

• How 3D printing is supporting the global shift to EV vehicle applications
• How to leverage 3D printing to increase efficiencies and get to market faster
• How to create supply chain resilience by bringing manufacturing in house

This HSI presentation will include the high level objectives of the AEF HSI team and the ISO 23870, TC127 JWG16. It will explain how 1000Base-T1 can be used to leverage the heavy vehicle network architecture transition from CAN-based to ethernet. It will include details of the work that has gone into developing a new architecture that will offer widespread connectivity, have a long lifespan and be environmentally rugged. It will explain the anticipated future that includes increasing automation toward autonomy using a higher bandwidth to offer machine to machine and machine to cloud communication; and conclude with a summary of suppliers that have developed physical layer components.

What the audience will learn

• What is ISOBUS, what it solved and how it was implemented by the Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation or AEF.
• What is HSI for the Ag Industry and how those guidelines will be used in the similar needs industry groups.
• Explanation of the Physical layer components used in HSI.
• HSI Basic protocol research and how each industry will explore middleware.
• Details including the OSI 7-Layer Model and commonalities from physical layer to application.

This presentation focuses on leveraging a data-driven development approach for automated and unmanned vehicles in construction, mining, agriculture, industrial, and off-highway sectors. It highlights the significance of utilizing vast amounts of data generated by these vehicles to enhance their design and development process. The talk specifically explores the data collection, ingestion, and selection processes and toolings used to enable successful development and validation towards deployment. Attendees will gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of data for successfully engineering tomorrow's advanced autonomous vehicles.

What the audience will learn

• What is data-driven development and how can it be used in the off-highway context?
• What are the typical steps of a data-driven development pipeline?
• Which tools are used to enable data-driven development?

Developing advanced vehicle functions requires a complex, interdependent environment of different specialized tools and processes to satisfy the legal and technological requirements. Early detection of failures and regression testing are critical for success of software-driven products. All system levels and components must be evaluated and validated while covering the maximum scope of use, potential misuse and anticipated system faults. This presentation will demonstrate how comprehensive test environments and state-of-the-art methodology achieve the highest level of software quality – continuously.

What the audience will learn

• What are the current challenges for vehicle software development?
• How do we ensure a maximum level of quality for continuous development environments?
• Benefits and strategies for early error detection during development.
• The necessity for

Off-road and highway vehicle manufacturers allocate significant budgets for the test drives on physical proving grounds. Some well-established companies even exploit their own proving ground in a remote, multi-square-kilometer large area. However, these test roads only represent a small subset of the worldwide variety of user cases. Furthermore, in off-road applications the terrain is constantly changing making the correlation with durability and drivability models less effective. A new generation of lidar sensors derived from ADAS applications is enabling off-road vehicle tests in any public or private terrain. The lidars can be installed on the vehicles hood or roof to profile with high accuracy the terrain in front of the wheels determining the cause of individual events identified during the tests. Additionally, the data collected can be imported into simulation tools to further improve vehicle performance and for use in future developments deriving the vehicle loads. This session will illustrate how real time terrain profiling is used in off-road vehicle validation for durability, ride and quality, and in virtual simulations.

What the audience will learn

• Off-roads tracks and ground can be digitalized with the latest solid-state LiDAR
• True solid state lidar enable high accuracy pavement and ground digitalization preserving characteristics necessary for vehicle durability and ride comfort simulations
• Digital Ground contain all the characteristics of real world, including roughness and waviness, compliant with the ASTM standards for IRI
• The use of Digital Ground in Simulations expands the quantity of cases that can be evaluated compared with physical tests leading to more realistic and accurate analysis
• The same technology used to generate Digital Ground and can be leveraged for real-time pavement profiling in vehicle tests

GNSS is crucial in mining. Vehicles that operate in open-pit mines must be navigated with precision for both safety and efficiency. GNSS satellite signals can be blocked by the walls and topography of a mine. This reduces the reliability and accuracy, and, therefore, the overall useability of GNSS and automated vehicles. Geospatial GNSS Augmentation and forecasting provide comprehensive predictions of GNSS performance considering the topography of the mine, buildings, and line-of-sight determination of satellites as they orbit. Prediction of GNSS performance enables automated trucking, mining, survey, and fleet tracking to avoid areas of poor coverage or augment to improve performance.

What the audience will learn

• Applications of GNSS for industrial vehicles
• Awareness of GNSS/RTK/PPP limitations in mining or urban environments
• Understanding of Geospatial GNSS Augmentation & Forecasting technology
• Applications of Geospatial GNSS Augmentation with existing vehicles
• Improvement of positioning performance using Geospatial GNSS Augmentation

With a plug-and-play capable, fully electronic power distribution unit, the connected loads in the autonomous vehicle can be monitored. The intelligent power distribution unit enables the control and diagnosis of loads via the CAN bus. Load current and voltage measurement as well as integrated load protection allow load management and preventive maintenance. Fuses are replaced. In the event of a fault, remote reactivation is possible. Thus autonomous working machines and functions can be realized. Vehicle downtime can be reduced or avoided altogether. By integrating the load displays into the service HMI, the information can be used quickly for troubleshooting.

What the audience will learn

• Enhanced uptime of the industrial vehicle
• Time savings and cost reduction in the event of service
• Technology for autonomous vehicles

Industrial cameras often blur in challenging lighting environments when under motion, translating to poor visual data for computer vision algorithms. This poses an issue for industrial vehicles as they transition to autonomous operation, as most industrial applications involve some combination of motion with uncontrolled lighting, high vibration, shadowing, low light, or solar glare. Despite the advances in LiDAR to offset these shortcomings, visual imaging remains desirable for scenarios such as characterization and differentiation of objects of interest. This talk discusses new perception systems for real-time, fast-motion, color optical imagery under the harshest environmental challenges: Single Photon Perception.

What the audience will learn

• Reliable optical sensing technology for industrial vehicles that operate in harsh environments
• Timelines and roadmaps of next generation optical imaging methods for harsh environments
• Comparisons between LiDAR, Radar, and Optical Imagery for Industrial Vehicles

The presentation will inform the listener on the options and the requirements to consider when designing a control handle solution (grip and joystick). Strength, forces, electrical interface (analog, digital, CANbus, etc.) and well as ergonomics, switch placement and more unique options will all be discussed. Common mistakes will also be discussed.

What the audience will learn

• Better understanding of the control options that should be considered when designing control solutions for cabs
• Prioritizing requirements to avoid development delays
• Choosing the best electrical output and technology for your application
• Taking cab placement into consideration when selecting a grip shape

Designing and building vehicles for the future requires architectures that support a variety of data interfaces to support the vehicle through the lifespan. Vehicles today require the ability to adapt, improve the operator’s experience, remotely diagnose, share data, use new energy sources, and expand their functions as technologies and aftermarket solutions come to the market. Starting with vehicle architecture we will walk through the types of communication architectures that exists today and how to map out your use cases to determine what system architectures will be required to support your customers and vehicles of the future.

What the audience will learn

• Learn the different methodologies and considerations for various components in an electronic control system.
• Learn the different types of communications on a vehicle and how they are used.
• How to design a system that easily supports telematics now and in the future.
• Considerations to enable complete vehicle over the air programming and remote diagnostics and how that can support value streams.
• Considerations for security, online vs. offline functionality and learn from real-world examples.

Servicing electronic systems on heavy equipment has been a time-intensive process, requiring special hardware and software. Sometimes, just waiting for time at the dealer service center can take weeks. It is clear that a new approach is needed for mobile equipment. ifm has developed Inspector functionality which enables OEMs to build service functionality directly into the machine, to help get the machine back to work faster. This presentation will outline how we combined a suite of service tools to offer a troubleshooting approach which can be accessed locally or remotely for both service and engineering teams.

What the audience will learn

• Rethink engineering to include service functionality during design phase
• Differences between problems that can be solved remotely vs going to the shop
• Standardize the level of service whether standing at the machine or sitting a desk
• Case study outlining how an OEM deployed this

Key topics including data privacy, configurability and personalization, safety in transitioning from physical gauges to all-digital displays, designing for a global audience with a global team and outsourcing to suppliers without losing control of design will be covered in this presentation. We’ll delve into the complexities of data privacy and what must be done to ensure compliance with regulations. We will discuss the importance of configurability and personalization, as well as safety considerations when transitioning to all-digital HMIs. We will discuss the challenges of designing for a global audience and with a global team, outsourcing HMIs and much more.

What the audience will learn

• Dealing with data privacy
• Configurability and personalization
• From physical gauges to all digital displays – safety matters
• Designing with a global team for a global audience
• Outsourcing without losing control of your design

This presentation explores the challenges and lessons learned in delivering a robust and reliable solution, whilst unlocking the full potential of onsite safety powered by engineering ‘without having to think’. With tangible examples of how to transition construction from basic safety to innovative software protecting machines and humans. Safeguarding Rail Operations with Movement Limiting Devices: Prolec were approached by Rail Freight Services (a major material handling logistics company) to customize and deliver a “virtual wall” movement limiting solution for the UK’s first Terex Fuchs RHL 360F material handlers. Machines now in active service providing productive and safe work near to open railway lines and under high-voltage cables, unloading material for UK HS2 at a Tarmac site – taking the correct steps to work ‘simply safer’.

What the audience will learn

• How to protect operators from collisions with overhead hazards and limit machine movement.
• How to save money by mitigating the risk of collisions with critical infrastructure, protecting profits.
• How to reduce time with real-time height limiting, improving productivity by minimising machine downtime.

Monitoring temperature and pressure in a hydraulic system is relatively simple. However, many performance losses may still not be evident. Pumps and actuator performance can best be determined by monitoring their input or output flow. Until now there hasn’t been a simple fit-and-forget solution to monitoring hydraulic flow in the extreme environments seen by manned mobile & autonomous vehicles used in the earthmoving, mining, municipal vehicles, and handling industries. Webtec’s J1939 CAN compatible CTA flow monitor has been designed to address this need and can be connected to an in-cab HMI and/or connected to an IoT portal and monitored remotely.

What the audience will learn

• • Rugged solution for flow and temperature monitoring of hydraulic pumps and actuators designed for on and off highway use
• • Using hydraulic flow as early prediction of loss of machine efficiency
• • Combining hydraulic flow, pressure and temperature monitoring to calculate total hydraulic power and total machine efficiency
• • Easily connected to existing HMI or IoT gateway using native J1939 CAN BUS
• • Enhance machine telematics to include hydraulic performance & offer a superior after-market service

The goal of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems is to protect lives by providing better visibility of hazardous areas around commercial vehicles and mobile machinery. Camera-based systems are designed to make mobile machine operators more successful by preventing property damage and automating mobile processes. The challenge in commercial vehicles is that there are many different types of commercial vehicles on the market with very different appearances. This leads to facing several challenges in the field of camera-based systems around machine learning. We present solutions to more flexible camera attachment positions and the resulting need for new training data for machine.

What the audience will learn

• Use of AI-based neural networks for person detection.
• Rugged digital camera technology for commercial vehicle applications.
• Use cases for reverse and side assist systems in commercial vehicle applications.