Evaluation of the Effect of Different Operating Methods on Operability in Excavator HMI

Abstract

In excavators, each joint of work equipment is operated with two levers. In the conventional operating method, the move direction of the joints and the lever operation direction do not coincide, making the operation unintuitive. In this study, we investigated an operating method in which the move direction of the joints and the lever operation direction coincide, and evaluated the operability with this method by using the excavator operation simulator.