I am currently interested in autonomous construction vehicles. Specifically I am looking at the model and Control of crawler loaders. So if you could recommend any books or articles on the topic or have any tips, please post them here.
[1]Y. Liu, “Dynamic characteristic analysis and fault diagnosis of load‐sensitive drive system for loaders,” J. eng., vol. 2019, no. 13, pp. 268–272, Jan. 2019, doi: 10.1049/joe.2018.8974.
In general, robotic kinematics is required for defining an end-location, effector's orientation, and motion of all joints, whereas dynamics modeling is required for evaluating and synthesizing the dynamic behavior of the robot.
Check out this link: https://videleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Multi-Body-Kinematics-Simulation-Modeling-and-Analysis-of-Shovel-Crawler-Performance-in-Rugged-Surface-Mining-Terrains.pdf