Autonomous earthmoving sounds like science fiction until you break it into four steps. TerraFirma runs the same loop on every job, and the loop is the product. It starts in software, moves to a command room, ends in the dirt, and then it teaches itself and starts again.
THE PRIMER
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THE AUTONOMY STACK · FOUR STEPS · ONE LOOP
Dirt Work 101.
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PLAN
Mission Planner lays out the dig before a single track turns: the site, the sequence, the volume of earth to move, and the order to move it in.
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COMMAND
Mission Control, in Austin, dispatches and supervises the fleet. One room, many machines, live telemetry from every site.
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EXECUTE
Retrofitted excavators, dozers, loaders, rollers and skid steers do the physical work, in the heat, on the real ground.
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LEARN
Every shift is logged and fed back into the model. The fleet is better at the next dig than it was at the last.
24/7 SHIFTSLOWER COST PER YARDZERO SEATS IN HAZARDOUS ZONES
The benefits fall out of the loop. A machine that does not need a person in the seat can run a double shift, or a triple, because it does not get tired and does not go home. Cost per cubic yard drops when the same crew supervises more iron. And nobody sits in the hazard zone, because the hazard zone no longer has a seat in it.