Smart Excavator
See every bucket.
A computer-vision system mounted on loading equipment that measures rock fragmentation, detects missing bucket teeth and monitors how trucks are loaded.
Loading quality was judged by eye.
Rock fragmentation directly affects loading speed, crusher performance and equipment wear. Yet it was rarely measured, missing bucket teeth went unnoticed until they reached the crusher, and truck loading height was inconsistent.
Vision AI at the point of loading.
Cameras on excavators and loaders analyze every bucket in real time. The system estimates particle size distribution, flags missing teeth instantly and monitors truck loading height, while spatio-temporal reports keep a history of the results.
Technical details
From the bucket to the report.
Edge processing on the machine with centralized reporting for engineers.
Full capability list.
- Automatic detection of particle size during loading
- Real-time identification of missing teeth
- Historical reports on particle sizes
- Monitoring the proper loading height in trucks
- Spatio-temporal reports on fragmentation results
- Anomaly detection and alarming
- Tracking the performance of excavators and trucks
Results.
Verified results will be added here.
The people behind it.
A multidisciplinary team of engineers, researchers and domain experts.
More from this project.
Visuals of the system and its components.
Scaling for broader impact.
We are extending fragmentation analytics and fleet performance reporting to more machines on site.
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