Abstract
The current advancement of robotics, especially in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), leads to a prominent combination between the mining industry and connected-embedded technologies. This progress has arisen in the form of state-of-the-art automated giant vehicles with Autonomous Haulage Systems (AHS) that can transport ore without human intervention. Like CPS, AHS enable autonomous and/or remote control of physical systems (e.g., mining trucks). Thus, similar to CPS, AHS are also susceptible to cyber attacks such as Wi-Fi De-Auth and GPS attacks. With the use of the AHS, several mining activities have been strengthened due to increasing the efficiency of operations. Such activities require ensuring accurate data collection from which precise information about the state of the mine should be generated in a timely and consistent manner. Consequently, the presence of secure and reliable communications is crucial in making AHS mines safer, productive, and sustainable. This paper aims to identify and discuss the relation between safety of AHS in the mining environment and both cybersecurity and communication as well as highlighting their challenges and open issues. We survey the literature that addressed this aim and discuss its pros and cons and then highlight some open issues. We conclude that addressing cybersecurity issues of AHS can ensure the safety of operations in the mining environment as well as providing reliable communication, which will lead to better safety. Additionally, it was found that new communication technologies, such 5G and LTE, could be adopted in AHS-based systems for mining, but further research is needed to considered related cybersecurity issues and attacks.
Highlights
Since the launch of Industry 4.0, smart machinery and intelligent services have been unveiled, including quality-controlled systems [1]
We argue that addressing cybersecurity issues of Autonomous Haulage Systems (AHS) can ensure the safety of operations in the mining environment, and that providing reliable communication leads to a better safety
The relation between cybersecurity and safety in AHS systems was discussed and it was found that compromising cybersecurity would threaten the safety of mining operations leading to loses in people and equipment
Summary
Since the launch of Industry 4.0, smart machinery and intelligent services have been unveiled, including quality-controlled systems [1]. AHS is the state-of-the-art in the mining industry for autonomous vehicles Since their first system development endeavor in Chile in 2005, AHS have attracted attention in the last decade from haulage truck manufacturers such as Caterpillar and Komatsu. With the use of the AHS, several mining activities have been strengthened due to increasing the efficiency of operations Such activities require ensuring accurate data collection from which precise information about the state of the mine should be generated in a timely and consistent manner. Within the mining environment, we aim to identify and discuss the relation between safety of AHS in the mining environment and both cybersecurity and communication. We argue that addressing cybersecurity issues of AHS can ensure the safety of operations in the mining environment, and that providing reliable communication leads to a better safety.
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