Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy

Jarkko Ruokojärvi

Hannu Mäkelä

Janne Kallio

Antti Lehtinen

Jouni Sievilä

The present invention relates to a method of determining routes for arranging automatic control of a mobile mining machine. A return route is determined computer-aidedly for the mining machine on the basis of data concerning a route taught by driving by executing, by a data processing device configured for generating return routes, at least the following steps: determining a route identifier for the return route, determining as route points of the return route at least some of the route points of the drive route in a reverse order, wherein when determining route point data of the return route on the basis of the route point data of the drive route, deleting additional control data associated with one or more route points of the drive route, and storing the data determining the return route to be used for automatically controlling the mining machine.

Determination of routes for arranging automatic control of mobile mining machine

A method for arranging automatic control of a mobile mining machine equipped with a bucket is disclosed. The method generates a general purpose bucket emptying model that defines at least the path of the bucket of the mining machine for emptying it. The bucket emptying model is stored on a memory. The bucket emptying model is fetched from the memory in response to a need to define emptying the bucket for the route. At least data defining the path of the bucket in the fetched bucket emptying model are appended to the path data for use in the automatic control of the mining machine.

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Jarkko Ruokojärvi