Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.

Gianfranco Perri

Eric Steven Engelmann

Dario Sansone

Nathan L Mashek

Matthew-David S Frantz

Paul J Koenen

Robert Edwin Carr

Elizabeth R K Brockman

A method and system for generating an augmented machine view. The augmented machine view may include a dynamic virtual machine model representing an actual working machine, overlayed with camera footage from around the working machine. The dynamic virtual machine model may be synched in time with the camera footage. The system for generating the augmented machine view may include cameras mounted on the actual machine and machine sensors monitoring the position and movements of individual components of the machine.

Augmented machine user interface system

Systems and methods can sense, using a vibration sensor disposed relative to a rotor of a milling machine, vibration associated with a cutting operation of the rotor of the milling machine; and determine during the cutting operation whether the sensed vibration associated with the cutting operation of the rotor indicates now that the rotor is cutting a second material different from a first material being previously cut by the rotor during the cutting operation. The second material can be harder than the first material. Cutting operations of the milling machine can be controlled based on identification of the rotor cutting the second material. The cutting operations can include speed of the milling machine, cutting level and/or depth of the rotor, and/or rotational speed of the rotor.

Systems and methods for controlling operation of a milling machine based on vibration

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Bologna, Italy

Gianfranco Perri