MINSK, 28 October (BelTA) – The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Amkodor has unveiled a road grader that uses a 3D levelling system made by Topcon (Japan), the company's press service told BelTA.
According to the source, civil engineering industry and road construction industry in Belarus and other CIS countries are poorly automated. Automatic vehicle control systems (levelling systems) open up new possibilities for construction companies.
The first cutting-edge grader was demonstrated at an exhibition timed to a professional skills contest for Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry workers.
Construction machines equipped with 3D levelling systems can automatically control the position of their work tools (blades of bulldozers or graders, the bucket of an excavator, the leveling plate of an asphalt distributor and so on). Such vehicles are fitted with sensors and a computer that tracks the vehicle's position using satellite navigation. The computer can calculate where the work tool is supposed to be at a specific point of the project. The computer also adjusts the position of the work tool when necessary. The vehicle's operator can oversee the entire process.
The Belarusian industrial group Amkodor unites 30 enterprises that make over 120 models and modifications of machines and vehicles for agribusiness, road construction, housing and utilities industry, forestry industry, manufacturing sector, and logistics. It is Belarus' only producer of road graders.
