An interchangeable mission module for unmanned ground vehicles is provided. Also provided is a mission module in combination with an unmanned ground vehicle. Also provided are methods and mechanisms for docking and undocking modules and unmanned ground vehicles.

A self-propelled work machine, such as an excavator, comprising an undercarriage equipped with wheels or track chains, and a top carriage supported onto the undercarriage for 360 rotation about a vertical axis. A first articulating boom is pivotably attached to the top carriage, and a first implement is attached to the free end thereof. The undercarriage is fitted with a mounting and pivoting adapter to which a second articulating boom is attached. The adapter comprises a mounting part attached to the undercarriage and a pivoting part attached to the mounting part such that is its pivotable at least 120 about a vertical axis and having said second articulating boom attached thereto such that it is pivotable about a horizontal axis. A second implement is attached to the free end of the second articulating boom.

A tractor-mounted front loader includes a parking stand mounted to each of a pair of downwardly and forwardly inclined arm sections coupled to an implement resting on the ground. Each parking stand includes a support leg and a brace, the latter having a rear end pivotally mounted to a location approximately halfway between opposite ends of the support leg and an forward end pivotally mounted to a lower region of an associated loader arm section. The support leg and brace may be stored on the loader arm section by folding them together with a catch carried by the brace becoming releasably engaged with the support leg. The folded support leg and brace are then pivoted against the loader arm section and secured to it by a releasable latch which secures the top of the support leg to the arm section to establish a stored position.

Provided are: a stand provided, on a boom, rockably about a main body rocking shaft, the stand being movable between a support position where the stand is capable of supporting a front loader and a storage position where the stand is stored at a position closer to the boom than the support position; and a spring capable of biasing the stand in a direction approaching the boom, and further, provided is a regulation member provided, on the boom, rockably about a rocking shaft parallel to the main body rocking shaft, the regulation member being capable of regulating rocking of the stand in the direction approaching the boom by abutting on the stand.

A device for transporting and/or storing an article of construction equipment having a tool extending therefrom. The devise comprising a main body frame, a removable brace, and a base. The main body frame having a first side, a second side, and a tool locator disposed between the first and the second sides of the main body frame. The tool locator defining an opening configured to receive the tool. The main body frame is configured to receive at least a portion of the article. The removable brace is secured to the main body frame. The base extends from the main body frame such that the base is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the main body frame.

A working vehicle includes a receiver to receive a wireless signal which is transmitted from a transmitter in or on an attachment and which includes identification information and vibration information relating to the attachment, and a controller configured or programmed to, if the vibration information included in the wireless signal does not indicate vibration of the attachment, determine that the attachment from which the wireless signal is transmitted is a not-attached attachment not attached to a hitch, and generate management information and cause a memory and/or a storage to store the management information, the management information being information in which the identification information of the attachment determined as being the not-attached attachment is associated with storage location information indicating a storage location of the not-attached attachment, the storage location information being the vehicle position information acquired by a position detector when the receiver received the wireless signal.

An attachment management system includes a work vehicle, an attachment detachably coupled to the work vehicle including a vehicle controller, and a communication tag fixed to the attachment. The communication tag includes a tag transceiver, and a tag memory to store a tag identifier unique to the communication tag and attachment information unique to the attachment, to which the communication tag is fixed. The vehicle controller is configured or programmed to control the vehicle storage to store a new piece of combined information including the tag identifier and attachment information linked thereto in the beacon signal, unless both of the tag identifier and attachment information in the beacon signal match with the tag identifier and attachment information stored in the vehicle storage, and perform a predetermined operation based on attachment information of the new piece of combined information.

The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for carrying out construction measures, in particular foundation engineering measures, on a construction site with a number n of construction machines, in particular foundation engineering machines, on which attachment components, in particular construction tools, are fixed in a releasable and changing manner, wherein a number N of attachment components are kept on the construction site, wherein N>n>2. Provision is made in that in a computer unit the number n and the type of construction machines and the number N and the type of attachment components present on a construction site are saved, in that the computer unit has a data connection to the individual construction machines and queries information on the actuators of the individual construction machines, in that depending on the information received the computer unit ascertains which attachment component is fixed on the individual construction machine, and in that the computer unit ascertains and indicates which attachment components are freely available on the construction site.