Excavation is an importance work in mining, earth removal and general earthworks. Nowadays, automation in excavator has been studied by several researchers and simulation is one of the low cost method can be safety tested. In this paper, the simulatio...
Excavation is an importance work in mining, earth removal and general earthworks. Nowadays, automation in excavator has been studied by several researchers and simulation is one of the low cost method can be safety tested. In this paper, the simulation of hydraulic system for excavator’s manipulator such as boom; arm and bucket using Matlab/Simhydraulic will be presented. In addition, the dynamics of excavator was distributed to associate with the hydraulic system. For controlling this system, electric joysticks were used to operate the orifices area open in Main Control Valve. This design is considered as a virtual excavator that includes the control; hydraulic system and dynamics model. The result simulation will be described to analysis the performance of this virtual excavator.