A method for determining a recommendation of a gear to be engaged for a core drill. In the method, it is possible to use for example a drop in a rotational speed of a core bit of the core drill in the event of sudden deactivation of the motor of the core drill in order to determine the diameter of the core bit. Alternatively, the diameter of the core bit can be determined when the drill is started up or turned on. The diameter of the core bit is then used as the basis for the recommendation of the gear to be engaged. In a second aspect, the invention relates to a core drill with which the method can be carried out.

A self-contained truck-mounted brick laying machine can include a frame that can support packs or pallets of bricks placed on a platform. A transfer robot can pick up and move the brick(s). A carousel can be coaxial with a tower. The carousel can transfer the brick(s) via the tower to an articulated and/or telescoping boom. The bricks can be moved along the boom by, e.g., linearly moving shuttles, to reach a brick laying and adhesive applying head. The brick laying and adhesive applying head can mount to an element of the stick, about an axis which is disposed horizontally. The poise of the brick laying and adhesive applying head about the axis can be adjusted and can be set in use so that the base of a clevis of the robotic arm mounts about a horizontal axis, and the tracker component is disposed uppermost on the brick laying and adhesive applying head. The brick laying and adhesive applying head can apply adhesive to the brick and can have a robot that lays the brick. Vision and laser scanning and tracking systems can be provided to allow the measurement of as-built slabs, bricks, the monitoring and adjustment of the process and the monitoring of safety zones. The first, or any course of bricks can have the bricks pre machined by the router module so that the top of the course is level once laid.

The self-propelled construction machine according to the invention, in particular road-milling machine, recycler, stabiliser or surface miner, comprises a machine frame 2, which is supported by a chassis 1, which has wheels or tracks 1A, 1B. A milling drum 4 is arranged on the machine frame. The wheels or tracks 1A, 1B and the milling drum 4 are driven by a drive unit 8. Furthermore, the construction machine comprises a control unit 19 for controlling the drive unit 8 and a signal-receiving unit 18 for detecting at least one measurement variable M(t) which is characteristic of an operating state of the milling drum 4. The construction machine is characterised in that the rotational speed of the milling drum 4 is adapted, on the basis of at least one measurement variable M(t) which is characteristic of a critical operating state of the milling drum, to the operating conditions of the construction machine in such a way that the milling drum is operated in a non-critical operating state. The adaptive open-loop control of the milling drum rotational speed allows the construction machine to be operated at an optimum operating point with respect to the milling drum rotational speed.

A drilling machine (120) for a core drill (100), the drilling machine comprises a motor arranged to power a spindle, the spindle comprising a drill bit interface (121 ) arranged to hold a drill bit (110) and to rotate the drill bit (110) about an axle of rotation (101 ), the drilling machine (120) comprising a tag reader (125) connected to a reader coil, wherein the reader coil is arranged at the drill bit interface (121 ) and surrounding the spindle to inductively couple to a tag coil arranged on the drill bit, the drilling machine (120) further comprising a drilling machine control unit (140) connected to the tag reader (125), wherein the drilling machine control unit is arranged to read data associated with the drill bit (110) via the inductively coupled reader and tag coils, thereby obtaining information about the drill bit.

A self-contained truck-mounted brick laying machine can include a frame that can support packs or pallets of bricks placed on a platform. A transfer robot can pick up and move the brick(s). A carousel can be coaxial with a tower. The carousel can transfer the brick(s) via the tower to an articulated and/or telescoping boom. The bricks can be moved along the boom by, e.g., linearly moving shuttles, to reach a brick laying and adhesive applying head. The brick laying and adhesive applying head can mount to an element of the stick, about an axis which is disposed horizontally. The poise of the brick laying and adhesive applying head about the axis can be adjusted and can be set in use so that the base of a clevis of the robotic arm mounts about a horizontal axis, and the tracker component is disposed uppermost on the brick laying and adhesive applying head. The brick laying and adhesive applying head can apply adhesive to the brick and can have a robot that lays the brick. Vision and laser scanning and tracking systems can be provided to allow the measurement of as-built slabs, bricks, the monitoring and adjustment of the process and the monitoring of safety zones. The first, or any course of bricks can have the bricks pre machined by the router module so that the top of the course is level once laid.

A method for controlling a device system (10) having a saw blade (14) that is attached to a saw arm (15) and that can be moved along an advancing direction (26) by a motor-driven advancing mechanism (13), whereby there is an infeed motion of the saw arm (15) with the saw blade (14) into the workpiece (18) and, during the infeed motion of the saw arm (15) into the workpiece (18), a control unit (27) calculates an arc length (φ) of the saw blade (14) that is engaged with the workpiece (18), and the calculated arc length (φ) is compared to a pre-set, critical arc length (φ.sub.crit) of the saw blade (14).

A method for controlling a wall saw system during the creation of a separating cut in a workpiece. The movement of the saw head is controlled at the end points such that a boundary of the wall saw facing the end point coincides with the end point after the pivoting movement of the saw arm. In the case of a free end point, the boundary of the wall saw is formed by an upper exit point of the saw blade. In the case of an obstacle, the boundary of the wall saw is formed by the saw blade edge of the saw blade if the processing occurs without the blade guard or by the blade guard edge of the blade guard if the processing occurs with the blade guard.

A method for controlling a wall system when creating a separating cut in a workpiece between a first and a second end point is disclosed. The wall saw system includes a wall saw having a saw head, a pivotable saw arm, a saw blade and a blade guard. The separating cut is carried out in a plurality of main cuts. The pivoting movement of the saw arm in a main cutting angle is carried out in at least two steps with at least one intermediate angle, where a free cut of the saw blade is carried out in the respective intermediate angle between the pivoting movements of the saw arm.

The present invention relates to a ground sawing machine comprising a frame supported by rear wheels (34a, 34b) and front wheels (36a, 36b) arranged for moving the ground sawing machine over a surface (38). At least one motor (40, 6) and a saw blade (2) are mounted to the frame, at least one motor (40) being arranged to propel the saw blade (2) to cut against the surface (38). The pointing direction (80) relative the surface (38) of the rear wheels (34a, 34b) and/or the front wheels (36a, 36b) is adjustable by means of an electrically controlled actuator (56) which is controlled by means of control means (70, 71, 72) arranged to provide at least three different control signals, one for left turn, one for right turn and one for center. The control signal for left turn and right turn are arranged for adjusting the pointing direction (80) of the adjustable wheels (34a, 34b) correspondingly, and the control signal for center is arranged for adjusting the pointing direction (80) of the adjustable wheels (34a, 34b) to a predetermined value.

A method for controlling a wall saw system during creation of a separation cut in a workpiece between a first and second end point, where at least one of the end points is defined as an obstacle, is disclosed. The separation cut is carried out in a plurality of main cuts. In addition to a main-cut sequence, a corner-cut sequence having at least two corner cuts is defined for each end point defined as an obstacle. For each corner-cut sequence, a starting position and an end position are defined, the corner cuts being carried out therebetween. The wall saw is positioned in the starting position and is pivoted into a first corner-cut angle. Subsequently, the saw head is moved by way of the inclined saw arm until the end position has been reached. The wall saw is displaced back into the starting position and pivoted into a second corner-cut angle.