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Autonomous Loading System (ALS) This project is no longer active.
Heads: John Bares and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Mailing address:
Associated center: NREC
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| Project Description |
The ALS project is developing technologies with the intent to improve the productivity and reduce the cost of mass excavation. In a typical mass excavation application, a loading machine digs material from a face and dumps the material in a truck, with a throughput of hundreds of trucks per day. The process is repetitive and continues day and night and in most weather conditions. The type of loading machine and truck can vary, as can the material to be loaded which may range from sand to hard rock. Other issues include maintaining safety of all machines and personnel in the loading area and coordination of multiple machines to achieve a prescribed goal.
| Past members |
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Name | Title | Email Address |
| John Bares | Research Professor/Director of NREC | bares@cs.cmu.edu | |
| Scott Boehmke | NREC Commercialization Specialist | ||
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Howard Cannon | Visiting Research Scholar | |
| Timothy Hegadorn | Research Engineer | ||
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Alonzo Kelly | Associate Professor | alonzo@ri.cmu.edu |
| Murali Krishna | Postdoctoral Fellow | ||
| Keith Lay | Liasion Officer | nkl+@cmu.edu | |
| Patrick (Chris) Leger | Postdoctoral Fellow | ||
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Robert McCall | Research Programmer | |
| Richard Moore | Senior Research Engineer/On Leave | ||
| Anthony Nolla | Technician III, RI/ECE | ||
| Jorgen Pedersen | NREC Commercialization Specialist | ||
| Patrick Rowe | NREC Commercialization Specialist | ||
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Sanjiv Singh | Associate Research Professor | ssingh@ri.cmu.edu |
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Anthony (Tony) Stentz | Research Professor/Assoc Dir NREC | tony+@cmu.edu |
| Publications |
Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.