The present invention relates to a mining system. The system includes a continuous miner for forming plunge tunnels from a roadway. A flexible conveyor system is coupled to the continuous miner for conveying mined material from the plunge tunnels. A controller is provided for controlling the continuous miner and the flexible conveyor system to travel along a predetermined path. Advantageously, the controller may control the drive and steering (including turning maneuvers) of the continuous miner and each conveyor module of the flexible conveyor system along the predetermined path to avoid striking either any adjacent equipment (e.g., another conveyor), or the “ribs” of a plunge tunnel being mined.

A haul vehicle management system includes: a three-dimensional data acquisition unit that acquires three-dimensional data outside an outline of a traveling area where a haul vehicle can travel; and a course data generation unit that generates a traveling course of the haul vehicle on the basis of outer shape data of the haul vehicle and the three-dimensional data, the traveling course being set in the traveling area.

Provided are a vehicle attitude estimation method, an electronic device and a storage medium, relates to a technical field of data processing, and in particular to fields of automatic driving, intelligent transportation, Internet of Things, big data and the like. A specific implementation solution includes: obtaining first target data, based on point cloud data of a vehicle, the first target data being capable of constituting a target surface of the vehicle; performing attitude estimation on a target body for surrounding the vehicle, based on the first target data, to obtain an estimation result; and estimating an attitude of the vehicle, based on the estimation result. According to the implementation solution, precise or accurate estimation of the attitude of the vehicle may be achieved.

The present invention relates to a mining system including a continuous miner. The continuous miner mines material and includes a miner navigation system. The mining system further includes a flexible conveyor system for receiving the mined material from the continuous miner. The flexible conveyor system includes a conveyor navigation system. The mining system further includes control means for controlling the miner navigation system and the conveyor navigation system so that the flexible conveyor system receives the mined material from the continuous miner. Preferably, the flexible conveyor system need not be coupled to the continuous miner, and can be extracted separately in the event of a cave-in on the miner.

Provided is a moving target positioning capability testing device for a coal mine, including a timing unit, a control unit, a laser emitting unit, a laser receiving unit and a constant-speed traveling device, wherein multiple groups of clocks, laser receivers and laser emitters, as test points, are arranged; and the constant-speed traveling device is used to drive positioning identification cards fixed on a positioning vehicle to move forwards from a position outside a coverage boundary of a positioning sub-station in a constant-speed manner, count time of the clocks, and calculate a difference between a position of the positioning vehicle fixed with the positioning identification cards after moving a distance at the same time as a receiving time recorded by a moving target positioning system server and a position of the clock as a dynamic error evaluation value of the moving target positioning ability.

A computer-implemented method for controlling a vehicle communication network comprising a plurality of nodes at a site, where at least some of the nodes are vehicles operating at the site. The method includes obtaining environment data indicative of a geometry of the site; obtaining position data indicative of respective positions of the nodes; modelling respective communication channels between interconnected nodes in the vehicle communication network based on the environment data and the position data; estimating respective signal quality metrics indicative of a communication link quality between the respective interconnected nodes based on the modelled communication channels; and controlling relative positions of the vehicles at the site based on the signal quality metrics and on a pre-determined signal quality acceptance criterion.

The invention relates to a method for controlling vehicles (V1-V3) in a mission along a route, comprising—selecting at least two progress control value sets (u, tw), each value set comprising a respective value (u1, u2, u3, tw) of a progress control parameter for at least one of the vehicles, wherein each progress control parameter value influences the rate of progress of the respective vehicle, —determining, for each of the selected progress control value sets, a respective distribution (SoBfut) of the vehicles, if the at least one of the vehicles is controlled based on the respective selected progress control value set (u, tw), so that each progress control value set is correlated to a respective distribution (SoBfut) of the vehicles, —identifying, from the selected progress control value sets, based at least partly on the determinations of the distributions (SOBfut), a progress control value set (u, tw) for controlling the at least one of the vehicles, and—controlling the at least one of the vehicles (V1-V3) according to the identified progress control value set (u).

Systems and methods can implement collaborative path planning of mobile machines in an unstructured area. The systems and methods can involve receiving, at an area controller at a worksite, a list of mobile machines that are in the unstructured area, responsive to identification of the mobile machine entering (including just about to enter) the unstructured area from a structured area. The systems and methods can also involve receiving, at the area controller, location information including a location at which the mobile machine is to perform a task, when the mobile machine enters the unstructured area; and coordinating, via the area controller, with the mobile machines on the list of mobile machines, for the one mobile machine to traverse a locally determined path to the location at which the mobile machine is to perform the task without interfering with locally determined paths of the other mobile machines in the unstructured area.

A vehicle control system includes a first controller, a first communication unit, and a second controller and communication unit both on board a vehicle. The second controller is configured to generate first control signals for controlling the vehicle based at least in part on second control signals received by the second communication unit from the first communication unit. The first controller is configured to receive proximity signals relating to a geographic proximity between two or more designated transports. The transports are respective movements of material from respective first locations to respective second locations. The first controller is further configured to generate a control plan for the two or more transports based at least in part on the proximity signals, and generate the second control signals, for communication to the second controller for controlling completion of the two or more transports, based on the control plan.

A method includes the steps of: receiving a three-dimensional model of an underground tunnel; identifying floor points among points of the three-dimensional model; extracting the floor points; and applying at least a part of the extracted floor points as a floor model of the tunnel for positioning or route planning of a mobile object in the underground tunnel.