Case Study:Bucket Sensing

Industry

Coal Mining

Region

North America

Location

British Columbia Canada

Application

P&H 4100 electric rope shovel

Customer Profile

Truck and shovel open pit operations with 7 electric rope shovels

Situation

An accurate location of shovel bucket is currently missing in open pit operations to correlation the geo-spatial location with contextual and sensory data such as digability index, payload, ore sorting, coal seams location and orientation. The mine was interested to develop a solution can precisely determine the location of bucket and could be correlated with other on-board and cloud data.

Solution

RIGIDprecision™ platform from RIGID ROBOTICS provided scalable real-time data from shovel enabled by RIGIDsense™ hardware which was sent to the cloud and processed an onboard computer where advanced bucket sensing algorithms determined the accurate location of bucket on a real-time basis. The bucket position data were ingested by different pipelines for different applications like drill and blast optimization, and coal seam visualization.

Pilot Duration

3 months (October – January)

Availability
RIGIDprecision™ platform availability: 99.99% of shovel availability
Benefits

Increase compliance to mine plan

Improve recovery while reducing dilution or ore loss

Basis of geo-spatial data analysis for multiple applications: drill and blast optimization, 3D seam visualization, payload, ore sorting, mine plan compliance, etc.

Impact

Bucket position with less than 20 cm accuracy

Multiple pipelines to different applications such as GIS, Drill and Blast Optimization, Mine Planning and Scheduling Software