Mining systems and material-handling unit operations.
Conventional mining systems:
- Discontinuous mining system: Excavators, loaders, and trucks
- Haul roads
- Continuous mining system: Bucket-wheel excavators, conveyors, and spreaders
- Mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic equipment components
- Operational analysis and performance estimation
- Equipment selection, maintenance, and replacement
Robotic mining systems:
- Advances in mining technology
- Technology drivers in mining
- Technological challenges in underground and surface mining
- Autonomous trucks
- Field mapping, equipment navigation, and collision detection
- Shovel-truck interactions
- Data acquisition, transmission, and management
- Automated truck dispatching and fleet management
- Safety considerations, ISO 17757
- Socio-economic challenges
- Conventional vs. robotic mining systems
