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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2001
Hans Kelpe, Pella, IA (US);
Vermeer Manufacturing Company, Pella, IA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for controlling a horizontal directional drilling (HDD) machine provides for manually controlling the HDD machine to perform a sequence of HDD machine actions. HDD machine parameters associated with the sequence of HDD machine actions are stored during manual control of the HDD machine. Storing of the HDD machine parameters is subsequently terminated, typically by an operator or HDD machine controller, upon completing the sequence of HDD machine actions. The stored HDD machine parameters define all or part of an executable control program associated with the sequence of HDD machine actions. The control programs may be categorized to define libraries and accessed by users. Selected categorized control programs may be transferred to a memory of the HDD machine or other storage resource for subsequent execution by the HDD machine.