A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper turning body turnably mounted on the lower traveling body, a cab mounted on the upper turning body, an attachment attached to the upper turning body, a hardware processor, and a display device. The hardware processor is configured to move the end attachment of the attachment relative to an intended work surface with the ground being pressed with a predetermined force by the working part of the end attachment, in response to a predetermined operation input related to the attachment. The display device is configured to display information on an irregularity of the ground.

A method for automatically adjusting the position of an implement of a lift assembly of a work vehicle includes determining a tilt transition boom angle for the lift assembly, determining a closed-loop control signal associated with controlling movement of the implement based at least in part on the tilt transition boom angle, generating a valve command signal based at least in part on the closed-loop control signal, and controlling an operation of at least one valve associated with the implement based at least in part on the valve command signal to maintain the implement at a target implement angle as a boom of the lift assembly is being moved across a boom travel range.

A shovel includes a traveling lower body; a revolving upper body mounted on the traveling lower body; an attachment attached to the revolving upper body; and a control device mounted on the revolving upper body and configured to drive the attachment. The control device controls an angle of a teeth end of a bucket with respect to a target excavation ground, in accordance with hardness of the target excavation ground.

A work vehicle includes a work implement. A control system for the work vehicle includes a controller. The controller determines a target design terrain indicating a target trajectory of the work implement, and operates the work implement to dump materials on a current terrain sequentially from a nearer side to a farther side of the work vehicle in accordance with the target design terrain. At least a part of the target design terrain is located above the current terrain.

A control system for a work vehicle includes a controller. The controller determines a work zone at a work site. The controller determines a target design topography at least partially positioned below an actual topography at the work site. The controller specifies a non-work zone. The non-work zone is a portion in which the actual topography is positioned below the target design topography in the work zone. The controller modifies the work zone based on the non-work zone. The controller generates a command signal to operate a work implement of the work vehicle according to the modified work zone and the target design topography.

A grading machine may include a machine body, a grading blade, a drawbar connecting the grading blade to the machine body, a drawbar centershift cylinder, a user interface, and a control system. The control system may be configured to receive an input from the user interface and extend or retract the drawbar centershift cylinder to adjust a centershift of the drawbar to one of a plurality of predetermined centershift positions based on the input.

A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) controller is disclosed. The LIDAR controller may receive cycle segment information identifying a cycle segment of an operation of a machine. The LIDAR controller may determine, based on the cycle segment information, a scan area within a field of view of the LIDAR sensor. The LIDAR controller may cause the LIDAR sensor to capture, with an increased point density relative to a non-scan area within the field of view, LIDAR data associated with the scan area. The LIDAR controller may process the LIDAR data to determine, using the increased point density, a status associated with the operation. The LIDAR controller may perform an action associated with indicating the status associated with the operation.

A work vehicle control system includes an actual topography acquisition device, a storage device, and a controller. The actual topography acquisition device acquires actual topography information, which indicates an actual topography of a work target. The storage device stores design topography information, which indicates a final design topography that is a target topography of the work target. The controller acquires the actual topography information from the actual topography acquisition device, and the design topography information from the storage device. The controller determines an intermediate design topography positioned above the actual topography and below the final design topography. The controller generates a command signal to move the work implement based on the intermediate design topography. The intermediate design topography includes a plurality of intermediate design surfaces divided in the traveling direction of the work vehicle. Inclination angles of at least two of the intermediate design surfaces differ from each other.

A shovel includes a lower traveling body, an upper rotating body that is rotatably mounted on the lower traveling body, an attachment attached to the upper rotating body, state detecting sensors that detect operational states of components of the shovel and include an attitude sensor that detects an attitude of the attachment, a controller that executes a preset operation based on a detection value detected by the attitude sensor, and a storage that stores detection values detected by the state detecting sensors during execution of the preset operation by the controller in association with the preset operation.

This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable of navigating through a dig site and carrying an excavation routine using a system of sensors physically mounted to the excavation vehicle. The sensors collect one or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data representing the status of the excavation vehicle and its surrounding environment. Based on the collected data, the excavation vehicle executes instructions to perform an excavation routine by excavating earth from a hole using an excavation tool positioned at a single location within the site. The excavation vehicle is also able to carry out numerous other tasks, such as checking the volume of excavated earth in an excavation tool, navigating the excavation vehicle over a distance while continuously excavating earth from a below surface depth, and preparing a digital terrain model of the site as part of a process for creating the excavation routine.