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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2010
Hannu Mäkelä, Helsinki, FI;
Antti Lehtinen, Tampere, FI;
Jarkko Ruokojärvi, Tampere, FI;
Jouni Sievilä, Vantaa, FI;
Hannu Mäkelä, Helsinki, FI;
Antti Lehtinen, Tampere, FI;
Jarkko Ruokojärvi, Tampere, FI;
Jouni Sievilä, Vantaa, FI;
Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy, Tampere, FI;
Abstract
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.