Flexible infrastructure free navigation for vehicles in underground mines

Author

Larsson, Johan ; Broxvall, Mathias ; Saffiotti, Alessandro

Author_Institution

Orebro Univ., Orebro

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

6-8 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

16469

Lastpage

18295

Abstract

During the last decade, mining companies and mobile equipment manufacturers have pursued improved efficiency, productivity, and safety in underground mining operations by automating some of the functions of underground vehicles. The work presented in this paper is the result of an effort to develop new flexible infrastructureless guidance system for autonomous tramming of center-articulated underground mining vehicles.

Keywords

mining equipment; mining industry; mobile robots; path planning; safety systems; underground equipment; autonomous tramming; center-articulated underground mining vehicle; flexible infrastructure free navigation; flexible infrastructureless guidance system; mining robotics; mobile equipment manufacturer; mobile robot; underground mining operation safety; Computer vision; Detection algorithms; Intelligent robots; Minerals; Mobile robots; Navigation; Remotely operated vehicles; Robotics and automation; Robustness; Vehicle safety; mining robotics; mobile robots; reactive navigation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems, 2008. IS '08. 4th International IEEE Conference

Conference_Location

Varna

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1739-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1740-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IS.2008.4670406

Filename

4670406