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Re: All Terrain Crane
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Date: 
Tue, 25 Jun 2002 19:24:03 GMT
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Darn it! I felt sure you were going to say there was a gyro or something
involved! I've been thinking that an RCX compatible gyro sensor is the
logical companion to the latest new sensor idea I've been working on - an
accelerometer. Now, if I could just get that 4x4 stud GPS brick working, we
could take over the planet with autonomous RCX controlled everythings :)


JB


In lugnet.technic, Ralph Hempel writes:
I used to work for PAT, a major supplier of LMIs to Demag, Grove,
and others.

Any chance of a wee explanation about how these things work? The trouble
with looking deeply into a subject is that it usually generates even more
questions that you had in the first place, and this is exactly what happened
here. I remember reading about old mechanical LMIs but not modern ones!

Ha! There IS something you don't know about cranes!

Basically, they have pressure transducers on the hydraulics that control boom
luffing. Then there's a really complicated bit of software that's customised
for each and every crane geomoetry that takes into account the boom angle, boom
extension, jib attachment and angle, etc and calculates the limit of operation.




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  Re: All Terrain Crane
 
(...) Will the first one be toting your shotgun John? Steve (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)
  RE: All Terrain Crane
 
(...) The PAT company also makes weigh-in-motion systems. The bending plate uses a strain-gauge to measure the load. What's interesting about this is that the approach path needs to be pretty level, so I designed a simple accelerometer that fed into (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)

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  RE: All Terrain Crane
 
(...) Ha! There IS something you don't know about cranes! Basically, they have pressure transducers on the hydraulics that control boom luffing. Then there's a really complicated bit of software that's customised for each and every crane geomoetry (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.technic)

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