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LASER TRACKERS PROVIDES VITAL INFORMATION THROUGH NON-CONTACT DATA COLLECTION.

Publication: Manufacturing Automation
Publication Date: 01-JUN-04
Format: Online - approximately 759 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Leica Geosystems' Metrology Division (Lawrenceville, GA, 770-447-6361) has successfully completed a comprehensive and ambitious data collection project with Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, IL). The 4-day activity captured a D9 bulldozer's track-in-motion data, as well as other relevant 3D data the...

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...coordinate derived from bulldozer's surface and movement. The data acquisition effort generated 123 channels of data gathered simultaneously from instruments fixed to the ground, moving with the tractor chassis, and over 40 channels of two-stage telemetry data rotating with the track. Caterpillar engineers will, ultimately, use the data to create detailed 3D dynamic models to perform analysis, predict traction performance, and evaluate new and existing product designs in a very sophisticated manner..

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