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Collision Avoidence: GPS for Large Mobile Mining Equipment

Collision Avoidence: GPS for Large Mobile Mining Equipment

Collision Avoidence: GPS for Large Mobile Mining Equipment

(OP)
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?

RE: Collision Avoidence: GPS for Large Mobile Mining Equipment

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.

RE: Collision Avoidence: GPS for Large Mobile Mining Equipment

(OP)
Phillyfrank,
Thank you for your promptness.

RE: Collision Avoidence: GPS for Large Mobile Mining Equipment

Contact Robert King of the Colorado School of Mines (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.

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