Ground that moves when it is worked.
Iron Pit is the physics under the Iron Table. Ground is cut, carried, dumped and compacted, and it settles to its own slope. Blades, buckets, scraper bowls, truck bodies and tires all work the same ground. It is one of the mule.bot tools that Iron Context ties together.
A plan is only as good as the ground it was tested on
Cut, carry, dump
Material leaves the ground where it is cut, rides on the blade or in the body, and lands where it is dumped. The load a machine carries is the same material that left the cut.
It settles
A pile stands at the slope its material holds and runs when it is steeper. A windrow, a tipped load and a cut face each come to rest the way that material does.
Tires and tracks
Machines ride on the ground they have made. Wet ground ruts and gives less grip, so a lap that held when dry can slip when wet.
A dozer pushes out three tipped piles
Each push is decided from the ground the dozer reads in front of it. The piles spread, the blade load rises and falls, and what is left behind is the ground the next push starts from.
Worked examples for the teams we work with
Ground under each tool
Blade, bucket, scraper bowl, truck body and tire runs, with the measurements each was checked against.
Materials
How a material is described: the slopes it holds, how it loosens when cut and tightens when rolled.
Beyond dirt
The same engine carries the machine models and the containers of a port yard.
One of the tools above the machine
Iron Context is all of the mule.bot tools and the written interface between each pair, so any one of them can be replaced by yours. Iron Pit reads from and writes to its neighbours.
Iron Table
The site in three dimensions, worked by machines drawn to their makers' sheets. Every run is a record and a film.
irontable.ai ▶Test tracksIron Range
Tracks where a planner or a whole autonomy stack drives the plays and leaves a record that replays.
mule.bot ▶Field contextIron Curriculum
What a competent crew does, in what order and under which rules, written as use cases and plays.
ironcurriculum.ai ▶The systemHitch
The connection to your machine or system: the full system less the machine, or the one interface your product needs.
mule.bot ▶Working with us
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