公开(公告)号：AU2011201189A1

公开(公告)日：2011-10-06

申请号：AU2011201189

申请日：2011-03-16

Applicant: UNIV SYDNEY

Inventor： PANTELIS ELINAS ,  LOCHANA PERERA LINTHOTAGE DUSHANTHA ,  ERIC NETTLETON ,  HUGH DURRANT-WHYTE

IPC: G01S5/14 ,  G06K9/00

Abstract: Abstract Described herein is a method and system for vehicle localization in an open pit mining environment having intermittent or incomplete GPS coverage. The system includes GPS 5 receivers associated with the vehicles and providing GPS measurements when available, as well as one or more cameras 50,55 overlooking the mine region 10. The cameras 50,55 are at a known location and are used for generating a sequence of images in a field of view with predetermined calibration in a fixed coordinate system. The system further includes a vehicle recognition processor 120 for analysing individual images from the camera to identify and 10 locate within an image a vehicle in the mine region, as well as a vehicle tracking processor 130 for analysing a sequence of images from the camera to track the identified vehicle location in the sequence of images. A data fusion processor 160 is coupled to receive GPS measurements, when available, from the vehicle GPS receivers, to fuse the received GPS measurement and corresponding vehicle image location, and to output a vehicle localization 15 output 125. QJAo moemntodl 2 Vehicle towera~o Ca-e16 aibato 12 [- 22nmp/~e Flau Pcesre A