Teleoperation of mining equipment using Optical Wireless Communications

Author

Barroso, Alberto Rui Frutuoso ; Baiden, Greg ; Johnson, Julia

Author_Institution

Bharti Sch. of Eng., Laurentian Univ., Sudbury, ON, Canada

fYear

2015

fDate

7-10 July 2015

Firstpage

727

Lastpage

733

Abstract

Penguin Automated Systems Inc. is presently evaluating the world´s first omnidirectional Optical Wireless Communications (OWC) network customized to teleoperate mobile equipment in surface, underground and underwater mining operations. Experimental results of novel technologies that made this possible are presented here: a mode programmable On-Off-Keying (OOK), Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulations (OFDM) Half-Duplex LED driver, and a single photodetector Free Space Optical (FSO) receiver. Experimentation demonstrated viability of this OWC system in its intended environments.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; amplitude shift keying; light emitting diodes; mining equipment; optical modulation; optical receivers; photodetectors; underground communication; underwater optical wireless communication; FSO receiver; OFDM; OOK; OWC network; OWC system; Penguin automated system; half-duplex LED driver; mining equipment teleoperation; mode programmable on-off-keying; omnidirectional optical wireless communication network; orthogonal frequency division modulation; single photodetector free space optical receiver; teleoperate mobile equipment; underground mining operation; underwater mining operation; Atmospheric modeling; Bit rate; Light emitting diodes; Modulation; OFDM; Optical receivers; FSO; Free Space Optical Communications; OWC; Optical Wireless Communications; Underwater Communications; V2I; VLC; Vehicle to infrastructure communications; Visible Light Communications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2015 Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sapporo

ISSN

2288-0712

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUFN.2015.7182639

Filename

7182639