Concepts for development of shuttle car autonomous docking with a continuous miner using 3-D depth cameras.

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• Personal Author:
  Agioutantis Z ; Chiu H-P ; Krasner A ; Miller S ; Rajvanshi A ; Schafrik S ; Sizintsev M ; Sottile, Joseph
• Description:
  In recent years, a great deal of effort has been put into automating mining equipment with the goal of improving worker health and safety and increasing mine productivity. Significant progress has been made in automating mining equipment such as load-haul-dumps and drills in underground environments where global positioning systems are unavailable. This paper addresses automating the task of positioning the shuttle-car (SC) under the continuous-miner (CM) coal-discharge conveyor during cutting and loading operations. A stereo depth camera is mounted on the SC. Machine learning based algorithms are applied on the camera's output to identify the CM discharge conveyor and segment the scene into various regions such as roof, ribs, and personnel. This information is used to plan the shuttle car path to the CM discharge conveyor. The approach currently uses a 1/6th scale continuous miner and shuttle car in an appropriately scaled mock mine. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Automation Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Mining industry; Mining engineering; Automation; Haulage vehicles; Underground mines; Equipment testing; Simulation methods
• ISBN:
  9781713845089
• Publisher:
  Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Kentucky ; New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Utah
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  426-430
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065325
• Citation:
  MineXchange: 2022 SME Annual Conference and Expo, February 27-March 2, 2022, Salt Lake City, Utah, preprint 22-079. Englewood, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, 2022 Feb; :426-430
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20200901
• Source Full Name:
  MineXchange: 2022 SME Annual Conference and Expo, February 27-March 2, 2022, Salt Lake City, Utah, preprint 22-079
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:385c347b6cc14dfeb52e512bc8a543b8d9fca58b3e67b1b6e88726126719e370042a601921520a9617ade6d100abab1425d0ebb6217ba419456224e4eaeff211
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248819/cdc_248819_DS1.pdf
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