Mobile Ground Machines

Mobile Working Machines are defined by three characteristics. These machines have a cer-tain task of doing a working process, they are mobile, and they have a signifi cant energy share in their working functions. The machines should be as productive, efficient and of high quality as possible. All these machines in the fi eld of agriculture, forestry, construction, logistics, municipal sector, and in other special applications work in different applications. But, many technologies placed in the machines are the same, similar or comparable; therefore, different branches can learn from each other.

Mobile Working Machines provides a wide and deep view into the technologies used in these machines. Appropriate for new engineers as well as those who wish to increase their knowledge in this field, this book brings together all the latest research and development into one place.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marcus Geimer is working at the Institute of Mobile Machines (Mobima), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Karlsruhe (D), as a full professor. The research focus of the institute is on drives, traction and function drives, and controls, such as predictive control and machine learning methods, for these machines. He studied at the RWTH Aachen University (D) and received his Dr.-Ing. Degree in 1995 from the Institute of Hydraulics and Pneumatics (IHP), now the Institute of Fluid Power Systems and Drives (IFAS). After his education, he went into different industrial enterprises and was responsible for the development and construction of hydraulic systems and components. In 2005, he was appointed to the former University of Karlsruhe (TH), today KIT.