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This page is a simulation. The honest way to add colour is to say exactly where the colour stops and the facts begin. Everything below is either true of this page itself, or explicitly marked as not published.
Every object on this page is procedural, boxy geometry built in the browser: the excavator, the SE dock and operator unit, the site, the truck, the people. Machine proportions are class-typical for a tracked hydraulic excavator — they are not the dimensions of any specific OEM model, and the generic construction yellow is not any manufacturer’s livery. The work site (box cut, spoil, haul road, laydown) is an invented, generic earthmoving context, not a real project.
No dimension shown on this page is a certified engineering dimension. 1 world unit = 1 metre and the 1.8 m crew figure is true scale, so proportions read honestly — but nothing here is buildable from this page, and nothing is meant to be.
| ITEM | VALUE | STATUS |
|---|---|---|
| World scale | 1 unit = 1 m | true of this page |
| Crew figure | 1.8 m | true scale reference |
| Stock controls actuated in this film | 6 — two pilot levers, two travel levers, two pedals | as depicted |
| Actuation method | physical only — no CAN, no ECU, no firmware, ever | doctrine |
| AUTHORIZE gate | genuinely blocks the timeline until a human clicks | true of this page |
| REVOKE | instant — downgrade never waits for a gate | true of this page |
| VIEW | WHAT IT IS |
|---|---|
| THE FILM | the deployment narrative — install, dock, engage, SE-0, the human gate, SE-1, removal |
| THE MACHINE | close orbit — host iron vs SE red, part by part (click parts) |
| WORK AREA | the site at working distance — cut, spoil, road, laydown |
| EYE IN THE SKY | overwatch — geofence, fields, exclusion zones, heading |
| THE PROGRAM | the pull-back — one Eddie, three docks, one envelope, ladder locked above SE-1 |
| THE NUMBERS | this panel — the boundary between drawn and real |
These are the drawing’s own dimensions (1 unit = 1 m), stated so the scene can be checked against itself. They are illustrative choices, not engineered values — no safety distance, cut design or boundary here is a published figure.
| FEATURE | AS DRAWN | STATUS |
|---|---|---|
| Box cut | 11 m wide × 20 m long × 2.1 m deep, ramp at far end | illustrative |
| Stop field radius | 9 m | illustrative — not a published safety distance |
| Warning field radius | 16 m | illustrative — not a published safety distance |
| Crew exclusion radius | 3 m per person | illustrative — not a published safety distance |
| Geofence | 104 m × 80 m | illustrative |
| Haul road width | ~7 m granular | illustrative |
| Scale bar (overwatch) | 10 m in 1 m segments | exact — by construction |
The actuation pack depicted for the tracked excavator family is six actuators on the six stock control interfaces listed above. That is the simulation’s depiction. A certified pack count for production hardware is not published — no certified figure exists to quote, and this page will not invent one.
| RUNG | MEANING | STATE |
|---|---|---|
| HUMAN | stock machine, stock controls | baseline — always available |
| SE-0 · INSTRUMENT | reading only, nothing commanded | demonstrated |
| SE-1 · REMOTE | teleoperation through the stock controls | demonstrated — behind the gate |
| SE-2 | — | LOCKED — validation + fresh human authorization |
| SE-3 | — | LOCKED — validation + fresh human authorization |
| SE-4 | — | LOCKED — validation + fresh human authorization |
| SE-5 | — | LOCKED — validation + fresh human authorization |
The palette is an argument, not decoration. These are the actual values this page paints with; none of them is any OEM’s brand colour.
| COLOUR | MEANS | |
|---|---|---|
| Iron yellow · #F0B323 | host OEM machine — untouched, always | |
| Chassis · #2A2F33 | chassis, counterweight, engine deck | |
| Steel · #9AA1A6 | boom, stick, cylinders — the work group | |
| SE red · #C8102E | Steady Eddie retrofit hardware ONLY — dock, Eddie, actuators, envelope, E-stop | |
| Earth · #8A7A62 | native soil, spoil | |
| Aggregate · #CABFA8 | haul road, granular base | |
| Hi-vis · #E8720C | cones, vests, site markers | |
| Warning field · #C9A227 | slow + announce zone (translucent) |
If a part is yellow, Steady Eddie never modified it. If a part is red, Steady Eddie added it and can remove it. That rule holds in every view.
The AUTHORIZE hold is implemented as a hard clamp in the timeline code: the playhead cannot pass the gate — by playing, scrubbing, or seeking — until a human clicks AUTHORIZE or explicitly declines. It is a toy model of the real gate, but the property it demonstrates is the real property: upgrade waits for a named human decision; downgrade (REVOKE) executes the same instant it is asked for, with no gate at all.
No hydraulics, loads, soil mechanics, cycle times, payloads, fuel burn or productivity figures are modelled or claimed anywhere on this page. The stop-field and warning-field radii, the geofence, and the crew exclusion zone in the overwatch view are illustrative envelope concepts — their dimensions are not published safety distances. Where a number is not published, this page says so instead of inventing one.