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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2023
Applicant:
J.h. Fletcher & Co., Huntington, WV (US);
Inventors:
Sean Joseph McQuerrey, Hurricane, WV (US);
Muhammad Usama, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Adam Richard Teator, Milton, WV (US);
Assignee:
J.H. FLETCHER & CO., Huntington, WV (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 7/025 (2013.01); E21B 7/022 (2013.01);
Abstract
A drilling machine, including a drill and a boom, are used for drilling boreholes in the face of a mine. A sensor may scan the mine and create a virtual environment representing the mine based on that scan. The drilling machine may include a computer for moving the drill and the boom from a first position to a second position based at least partially on evaluation of the kinematic redundancy of the drill and boom. This may be used to avoid a collision in moving the drill and boom from the first position to the second position.