For the joint IQPC Conferences "Automation & Connectivity for Mobile Machinery" and "HMI for Mobile Machinery", for which I also had the honor to serve as the conference chairman.

1. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety

2. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Automation in Mobile Working Machines
Source:http://goo.gl/TjWxUP

3. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Automation in Mobile Working Machines
Source:http://goo.gl/KDJsyf
for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety

4. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
One System: Machine, Operator and Working Environment
Bucket
Wheels
Lifting +
Breaking/Tilting
Travelling/
Penetration
Gravel
pile
Operator

5. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
One System: Machine, Operator and Working Environment
Bucket
Wheels
Lifting +
Breaking/Tilting
Travelling/
Penetration
Gravel
pile
OperatorEngine
Drive train
Hydraulics
S Aux
Linkage

6. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
One System: Machine, Operator and Working Environment
Bucket
Wheels
Lifting +
Breaking/Tilting
Travelling/
Penetration
Gravel
pile
OperatorEngine
Drive train
Hydraulics
S Aux
Linkage
ECU
ECU
ECU
ECU
Source:http://goo.gl/thZxT2

7. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Disruptive innovation occurs
whenever a previously scarce resource
is suddenly available cheaply and in abundance
• …
• Materials
• Power
• Energy
• IT & control
• …
bronze, iron, steel, aluminum, composites
water, wind, steam, electricity
wood, coal, crude oil, nuclear, renewables
computation, storage, networking, wireless, AI

8. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Disruptive innovation occurs
whenever a previously scarce resource
is suddenly available cheaply and in abundance
Moore’s Law = 5th paradigm
Source:http://goo.gl/RtIYXp

9. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Source:https://goo.gl/8hWSI5
Disruptive innovation occurs
whenever a previously scarce resource
is suddenly available cheaply and in abundance
Source:http://goo.gl/EIE9je

10. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Source:https://goo.gl/8hWSI5Source:http://goo.gl/IY3WI2
Automation Spectrum
Engine
Bucket
Wheels
Lifting +
Breaking/Tilting
Travelling/
Penetration
Drive train
Hydraulics
S Aux
Linkage
Gravel
pile
OperatorECU
ECU
ECU
ECU
Operator only Assisted Semi-automated
Highly
automated
Fully automated
ECU
ECU
ECU
ECU ECU
ECU
ECU
ECU Operator

11. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Automation Spectrum
Operator only Assisted Semi-automated
Highly
automated
Fully automated
Source:http://goo.gl/bcY7hr

12. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Automation Spectrum
Operator only Assisted Semi-automated
Highly
automated
Fully automated
Source:http://goo.gl/q4GlfT

13. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Operator only Assisted Semi-automated
Highly
automated
Fully automated
Source:https://goo.gl/ksuTBV
Automation in Mobile Working Machines
for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency,
Operability and Safety

14. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Operator only Assisted Semi-automated
Highly
automated
Fully automated
Automation in Mobile Working Machines
for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency,
Operability and Safety

15. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety

16. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Operator only Assisted Semi-automated
Highly
automated
Fully automated
Automation in Mobile Working Machines
for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency,
Operability and Safety
Humans are great operators…
when
• educated
• experienced
• rested
• sober
• not distracted

17. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Operator only Assisted Semi-automated
Highly
automated
Fully automated
Automation in Mobile Working Machines
for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency,
Operability and Safety
Ensuring a profitable business (B2B) by
making it easy for the operator to use the machine
• with productivity is as high as required
• and efficiency+safety as high as possible

18. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Automation in Mobile Working Machines
for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency,
Operability and Safety
Operator’s journey towards system supervisor (high level tasks)
Collaborative control (operator v. machine)
Operator only Assisted Semi-automated
Highly
automated
Fully automated

19. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Operator only Assisted Semi-automated
Highly
automated
Fully automated
State of the Art (non-comprehensive list of examples)
Operator’s journey towards system supervisor (high level tasks)
Collaborative control (operator v. machine)
Construction
Road building
Mining
Container handling
Mining
Container handling
Agriculture
Forestry(Augmented Reality)

20. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Source:http://goo.gl/I6Z66r

21. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Trust in automation
Source:http://goo.gl/4L2IgE
Calibrated trust leads to productive use
The right amount of trust, not too little and not too much
• Makes operator rely on automation, even when complex
• Shortcut to ideal situation of operator having a perfect understanding
of the automation: algorithm, scope, limitations
• Requires transparency and dependabiity
• Trust is hard to build and easy to break

22. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Trust in automation
Assigned homework:
Google “Kill Clippy”
Source:https://goo.gl/L0qzXf
“Clippy was optimized for first use:
amusing the first time you encountered him,
and frustrating after that.”
http://goo.gl/sQwkNZ
Sometimes I just popup for no
particular reason, like now.
It looks like you are giving a
presentation. Do you want me to
mess it up for you?
Yes please, insult me.
Leave me for now but feel free
to pop in whenever you want
and annoy the hell out of me.
Distrust leads to disuse

23. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Trust in automation
Distrust leads to disuse
From the book
“The Speed of Trust”:
Also applicable
to automation!
http://www.speedoftrust.com

24. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Trust in automation
Overtrust leads to misuse
Inappropriate reliance on automation
• Failures occur, accidents probable
• Inadvertent violation of critical assumptions
made by the system developer
• Examples: introduction of ABS, flight AF447 (A330, 2009)
flight EK521 (B777, Dubai, 3 Aug 2016)

25. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Trust in automation
Abuse: System developer mistrusting operator
Automation designed without thinking of human operators
• Belief of replacing unreliable people with reliable automation
will reduce errors and improve efficiency
Bound to fail due to impossible high requirements:
• Technical system
• System developer
• Operator

26. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Abuse = System developer mistrusting operators
Impossible high requirements
Technical system:
• to have perfect situation awareness (sensors)
• to have perfect control ability (actuators)
System developer:
• to deduce situation perfectly from measured data
• to perfectly understand how the technical system behaves in that
particular situation and how to counteract
• to being able to program the perfect control algorithm
Operator:
• to react perfectly predictable and not interfere in any way

27. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Automation in Mobile Working Machines
for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency,
Operability and Safety
Operator only Assisted Semi-automated
Highly
automated
Fully automated

28. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
Automation in Mobile Working Machines
for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency,
Operability and Safety
Operator only Assisted Semi-automated
Highly
automated
Fully automated

29. Reno Filla, Volvo CE | Automation in Mobile Working Machines for increased Productivity, Energy Efficiency, Operability and Safety
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