Development and testing of a computer-assisted remote control system for the compact loader-trammer

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• Personal Author:
  Ruff, Todd M.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• 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." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 10011474
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  10 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10011474
• 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
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