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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2020
Applicant:
Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy, Tampere, FI;
Inventors:
Veli-Pekka Jaakkola, Tampere, FI;
Petri Nurminen, Tampere, FI;
Assignee:
Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy, Tampere, FI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 44/00 (2006.01); E21B 7/02 (2006.01); E21B 41/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 44/00 (2013.01); E21B 7/022 (2013.01); E21B 7/025 (2013.01); E21B 41/00 (2013.01); E21B 2200/20 (2020.05); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for planning a drilling sequence. The solution relates also to a rock drilling rig and to a computer program product. The apparatus searches several possible drilling scenarios for drilling a given drilling pattern. Different actions required by the scenarios have given costs and the executed algorithm calculates total costs of found scenarios. Scenarios with the lowest costs are selected.