Controls in future earth moving machines

This seventh chapter of the book 'Advanced cabin design : how to improve comfort and performance by progressive cabin design' explores whether a new way of steering has positive effects. Also controlling the speed of a movement versus the position of a movement is compared. The last 25 years the application of joysticks has increased. The use of...

Comfortable earth moving machinery: knowledge and experiences from the Eurocabin project

The operator's comfort more and more is recognized as a factor of importance in the design of cabins of all kinds of vehicles. This book addresses the comfort of cabins of earth moving machinery, as a result of a 2,5-years European project (1999-2002), known as 'Eurocabin'. In this project 3 manufacturers of earth moving machines joined their...