An Architecture and Key Technologies of Autonomous Truck Dispatching System in Open-pit Mines

Abstract

Dispatching system plays an important role in intelligent mines, and the current research on the dispatching system is mainly aimed at manned vehicles. In the new scenario of unmanned transportation in open-pit mines, traditional dispatching systems are not fully appropriate. To meet the requirements of the unmanned transportation in open-pit mines, a new dispatching system framework being suitable for unmanned transportation scenarios in open-pit mines is proposed in this paper. At the same time, the key technologies of the proposed dispatching system are discussed and analyzed in detail, including the intelligent dispatching, path planning, traffic control and map management. In addition, the implementation of dispatching system and related practical application cases in open-pit mines are discussed and analyzed. The actual application results show that our proposed dispatching system has the high reliability and feasibility, and it can also effectively reduce the downtime of production equipment and improve the production efficiency. It provides an important reference for autonomous driving in open-pit mines.