TESTBED1 - Excavator
Leader: Prof. Monika Ivantysynova (Purdue)
Statement of Testbed Goals
Develop new system concepts based on throttle-less actuator technology to demonstrate fuel savings and the improvement in performance and compactness for the large sector of construction, agricultural and forestry machinery. The excavator will also be used to demonstrate effective control strategies for complex multi actuator systems and robot like machine functions. This will include new human/machine interfaces, including those that provide haptics feedback,
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Testbed’s Role in Support of Strategic Plan
This test bed supports the center first goal to achieve a drastic improvement in efficiency of existing fluid power applications and to reduce petroleum consumption and pollution. The test bed will be used demonstrating fuel savings by more efficient fluid power actuator technology and effective power machine management especially for large and high power equipment. The demonstrated new actuator technology will open new applications in both large scale heavy duty machinery and robots and in human scaled applications like surgery robots, or other portable devices, where efficient and compact actuator technology is necessary.
