Report of Investigations 9431: Development and Testing of a Computer-Assisted Remote-Control System for the Compact Loader-Trammer

Details

• Journal Article:
  Spokane, WA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9431
• Personal Author:
  Ruff, Todd M.
• Description:
  A prototype mucking machine designed to operate in narrow-vein stopes was developed under contract with the U.S. Bureau of Mines. The machine, called a compact loader-trammer, or minimucker, was designed to replace slusher muckers in narrow-vein underground mines. The minimucker is a six-wheel-drive, skid-steered, load-haul-dump (LHD) machine that loads muck at the front with a novel slide-bucket system and ejects it out the rear so that the machine does not have to be turned around. An automatic guidance system that used ultrasonic ranging sensors and a wall-following algorithm was installed. Additional tests in a simulated test stope showed that these changes improved the operation of the minimucker. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Automation Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mining Occupational Health Safety Software
• Keywords:
  Mining-equipment; Mining-industry; Underground-mining; Machine-operation; Underground-mining; Robotics; Automation
• Source:
  Spokane, WA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9431, 1992 Jan; :1-10
• Series:
  Mining Publications   ; NIOSH Numbered Publications  
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 8 ; South Dakota ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRC - Spokane Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  16 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10011474
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB93-132157
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:477cb4e5b5856c48a07e2b4c45b3c50c18321b0b5818b9bf6daa6a17e857ea9cc539a020cd055da10e37ec383d8745e094fbb074bdfb69ef36850ac9ac3b2613
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9558/cdc_9558_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.79 MB ]