Paper Info
Title
A Navigation System for Automated Loaders in Underground Mines
Abstract
For underground mining operations human operated LHD vehicles are typically used for transporting ore. Because of security issues and of the cost of human operators, alternative solutions such as tele-operated vehicles are often in use. Tele-operation, however, leads to reduced efficiency, and it is not an ideal solution. Full automation of the LHD vehicles is a, challenging task, which is expected to result in increased operational efficiency, cost efficiency, and safety. In this paper, we present our approach to a fully automated solution currently under development. We use a fuzzy behavior-based approach for navigation, and develop a cheap and robust localization technique based on the deployment of inexpensive passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags at key points in the mine.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/978-3-540-33453-8_12
Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
mining vehicles,fuzzy logic,hybrid maps,behavior-based navigation,autonomous robots,RFID
Conference
25
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1610-7438
2
0.45
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Johan Larsson1515.32
Mathias Broxvall230125.54
Alessandro Saffiotti32755284.17