3 papers
cs.RO2026
Size Doesn't Matter: Material-State Reinforcement Learning for Excavator Transferable Soil Manipulation
Lennart Werner, Pol Eyschen, Sean Costello +3
Earthmoving tasks such as excavation, backfilling, or embankment construction require deliberate repositioning of deformable soil. For these tasks, human operators use all shovel f…
cs.RO2026
High Precision Hydraulic Excavator Control for Heavy-Duty Grading
Lennart Werner, Pol Eyschen, Sean Costello +2
High-precision heavy-duty grading is a common step in earthworks, traditionally carried out manually by skilled operators. Removing a significant amount of material while achieving…
cs.RO2025
Calibrated Dynamic Modeling for Force and Payload Estimation in Hydraulic Machinery
Lennart Werner, Pol Eyschen, Sean Costello +2
Accurate real-time estimation of end effector interaction forces in hydraulic excavators is a key enabler for advanced automation in heavy machinery. Accurate knowledge of these fo…