Remote Control with Easy-Installation and Switchable Operation for Electrical-Controlled Construction Machines

Abstract

For post-disaster reconstruction, construction machines are essential tools. In particular, unmanned and remote controlled machines have been widely used on dangerous field sites to avoid human suffering. Depending on the site situations, however, a switchable-operation system is required to perform a flexible work. In this paper, we propose a remote-control(RC) system which has two main advantages. One is communication connectivity, that the system connects to the machine by using one single interface called Control-Area-Network(CAN). The other is that operators can choose one of methods from manned operation, remote operation, and externally-controlled operation. A prototype system is built and evaluated on the maneuverability between different controlling ways by using the career.