Publications / 1992 Proceedings of the 9th ISARC, Tokyo, Japan

Automation of Snowplow

Nobuhiro Fukuda, Hiroshi Kamimura, Takeshi Nakagawa, Yasuyoshi Sasaki
Pages 333-340 (1992 Proceedings of the 9th ISARC, Tokyo, Japan, ISSN 2413-5844)
Abstract:

With the increase in traffic volume in recent years, the snowplow operators have to constantly monitor the surrounding conditions and passing vehicles, and take extreme care and precautions during work. For using the rotary snowplow, which has various operating levers, technique and experience of a high level are required .in addition, extreme care and precautions must be taken to ensure safe operations. Also, a high level of accuracy (detailed) is demanded by local citizens and drivers during the snowplowing operations. We have developed snowplowing equipment incorporated with automatic control functions for the snow throwing system and the drive system. The objective is to improve the operability, snowplowing ability, accuracy, and safety of the rotary snowplow. We have developed automatic systems for XY control; concentration control, linear motion control and pattern control in chute operations for snow throwing, and driving control for steering operations. We have examined these systems in details. We have verified that these systems give comparatively good accuracy.

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