Automated updating of geological model boundaries for improved ore extraction

    公开(公告)号:US12049826B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-30

    申请号:US17415132

    申请日:2019-12-18

    CPC classification number: E21C41/22 E21B44/02 F42D3/04 G06T17/05

    Abstract: A method for adjusting a surface of an exploratory data model of a geological domain to take into account blast hole data, the method comprising; drilling a plurality of blast holes proximal to the geological domain; recording blast hole data samples for each of the blast holes in an electronic data storage apparatus; operating a processing assembly in data communication with said storage apparatus according to instructions stored in a memory accessible to the processing assembly to perform the following acts: labelling each said data sample as domain or non-domain; determining blast hole boundary samples for the geological domain at each of a number of elevations to produce blast hole boundaries for the geological domain; comparing the blast hole boundaries to a surface of the exploratory data model; adjusting the surface based on the blast hole boundaries for the geological domain to generate an adjusted surface; and mining the geological domain based on the adjusted surface to thereby improve efficiency of ore extraction.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREMENTAL MAPPING OF HAUL ROADS

    公开(公告)号:US20240094027A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-21

    申请号:US18038548

    申请日:2021-11-26

    CPC classification number: G01C21/3841 E02F7/00 G01C21/3822

    Abstract: A system for generating and updating an electronic map of paths travelled by vehicles in a geographical area, the system comprising: a plurality of vehicles located in the geographical area and each fitted with a position tracker and a vehicle communications system to transmit a series of chronological position reports in respect of the vehicle; a data communications network in data communication with the vehicle communications system of each of the plurality of vehicles; a map generation assembly (MGA) including a processing assembly and an electronic memory assembly, the map generation assembly being in data communication with the data communications network and arranged to receive the position reports, the MGA being configured to; generate batches of points from the position reports, the points corresponding to vehicle positions for respective vehicles at respective times, in the electronic memory assembly; operating the processing assembly to make batch-by-batch comparisons of points of a batch with positions of the clusters of the map; based upon the comparisons, operating the processing assembly to update the map by performing a cluster update procedure; operate the processing assembly to update the connections between the clusters subsequent to the cluster update to thereby produce an updated map; and transmit the updated map via the data network to a remote user.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COORDINATING MULTIPLE COOPERATIVE VEHICLE TRAJECTORIES ON SHARED ROAD NETWORKS

    公开(公告)号:US20230230475A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-20

    申请号:US18022634

    申请日:2021-08-27

    CPC classification number: G08G1/0145 G08G1/096725 G08G1/0112 G08G1/0125

    Abstract: A vehicle coordination system is provided for coordinating the trajectories of vehicles on a road network. The vehicle coordination system comprises a plurality of vehicles each having respective vehicle position tracking assemblies that are in communication with respective vehicle communication systems for transmitting vehicle state messages including positions of the vehicles. A task assignment allocator is provided that is arranged to generate task assignments for each of the plurality of vehicles, including destinations in the road network for the vehicles. A vehicle coordination assembly is in communication with the vehicle communication systems via a data network for receiving the vehicle state messages. The vehicle coordination assembly is configured to determine respective paths for each vehicle to arrive at their respective destinations and determine trajectory control commands for each vehicle to traverse their respective paths whilst optimizing a predetermined objective and avoiding active interactions of two or more of the vehicles occurring in any shared areas of the paths. The vehicle coordination assembly is configured to transmit the trajectory control commands to each vehicle. The predetermined objective may be an aggregate traversal time for the vehicles.

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