“…Recent research on hydraulic excavators has focused on the study of energy recovery and utilisation in digging operations 15 , 16 the study of the energy saving characteristics of the boom and stick of the working device 17 , 18 the study of the energy consumption of hybrid excavators 19 , trajectory planning for excavator operations 20 , 21 , the study of automatic walking based on environmental recognition 22 and the study of intelligence in autonomous operations 23 , 24 . Based on the measured digging resistance, this paper analyzes its distribution law and force value characteristics, and selects a suitable digging attitude, based on the bucket and stick limit digging force model and compound digging force model, the theoretical digging force is solved, and the measured digging resistance is matched with the theoretical digging force in size, in order to get the representation degree of the theoretical digging force to the digging capacity.…”