Development and testing of a vehicle collision avoidance system based on GPS and wireless networks for open-pit mines
- Organization:
- The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
- Pages:
- 8
- File Size:
- 2076 KB
- Publication Date:
- Jan 1, 2003
Abstract
A vehicle proximity warning–collision avoidance system is being developed using GPS and wireless local area networks to improve safety of off-highway trucks in open pit mines. After two-and a-half years of research, software development, and laboratory testing, field tests were carried out at operating limestone quarries and open pit mining operations to evaluate GPS accuracy and overall system effectiveness under rugged operating conditions. This article describes the progress made on this NIOSH-funded project and discusses the GPS accuracy tests and overall system tests that were carried out during the year 2001 at the Colorado School of Mines Survey Field and at the Morenci open pit copper mine in Arizona. Keywords: GPS, Advanced Mining, Virtual Reality, Wireless Networks, Proximity Warning
Citation
APA: (2003) Development and testing of a vehicle collision avoidance system based on GPS and wireless networks for open-pit mines
MLA: Development and testing of a vehicle collision avoidance system based on GPS and wireless networks for open-pit mines. The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2003.