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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2016
Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies Llc, Dayton, OH (US);
Jason Grier Lindsay Hill, Superior, CO (US);
Helen C. Cutler, Little River, NZ;
Stephen A. Miller, Dayton, OH (US);
Chad C. Apple, Troy, OH (US);
James Robert McKaskill, Broomfield, CO (US);
Alan Sharp, Superior, CO (US);
Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies LLC, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
Novel tools and techniques for controlling heavy equipment vehicles, such as tractors, graders, road-forming machines, and the like. Some techniques allow a control system of a heavy equipment vehicle to transition from receiving position data from one positioning device to receiving data from another without ceasing operation and/or while limiting any resulting discontinuity in a manipulated ground surface to within acceptable tolerances.