Mining automation in the next millennium: engineering a tele-operated load haul dump model

Author

Hwang, Yeen Shien ; Farmer, Neda ; Hart, Jason

Author_Institution

Dept. of Min. & Miner. Process Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

879

Abstract

A 1:5 scale remote controlled load haul dump (LHD) vehicle has been built to demonstrate the benefits of safety and automation in underground mines. Controlling an LHD inside the stope from a distance is much safer than drawing broken material while seated on the vehicle. LHDs also pose an accident risk to operators and other bystanders along the travel path of the vehicle. Tele-operated LHDs have higher utilization since a single operator can control one or more LHDs from surface. In such cases, the operating speed of the vehicle can be increased as operator safety is no longer an issue. Hence, higher productivity can be generated. This paper discusses the goals, design and construction of the model and simulates the application of expert system to control the model

Keywords

intelligent control; mining; telecontrol; vehicles; velocity control; automation; intelligent control; load haul dump vehicle; mining; safety; speed control; teleoperated control; underground mines; Accidents; Automatic control; Automation; Automotive engineering; Control system synthesis; Engineering drawings; Expert systems; Productivity; Remotely operated vehicles; Vehicle safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Processing and Manufacturing of Materials, 1999. IPMM '99. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5489-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPMM.1999.791501

Filename

791501