Collision Avoidence: GPS for Large Mobile Mining Equipment 1

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1) Has anyone had any eperience with GPS in keeping track of mobile machinery, with the intent of preventing collision?

2) In a coal mine?

 

[phillyfrank]

Ron Graber of Cleveland Cliffs in Upper Michigan has done a lot of work with GPS on trucks for scheduling in an iron ore mine. He can be reached at rggraber@cci-cmsc-mi.com.

 

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Phillyfrank,
Thank you for your promptness.

 

[rkdoc]

Contact Robert King of the Colorado School of Mines (

http://www.mines.edu)

Engineering Division. He has had numerous graduate students work on mining robotics and automation of mining equipment over the past couple of decades.

 

[anieto]

Please visit:

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/anieto/web/

and

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/anieto/web/

We are working on this technology at VT.