In a global environment where energy and labor are becoming increasingly expensive, continuous mining systems such as In-Pit Crushing and Conveying(IPCC) systems have been advanced as offering a real alternative to co...In a global environment where energy and labor are becoming increasingly expensive, continuous mining systems such as In-Pit Crushing and Conveying(IPCC) systems have been advanced as offering a real alternative to conventional truck haulage systems. The implementation of IPCC systems in hard rock operations in open pit mines however requires different and more comprehensive planning approaches in order to adequately reflect the practical aspects associated with these. This paper investigates the impact that these approaches may have on the implementation of IPCC systems on a basic metalliferous deposit amenable to open pit exploitation. A strategic life of mine plan to provide numerous economic indicators for each approach is analyzed and compared to traditional truck haulage systems. The mine planning and evaluation process highlights the increased overall resource recovery that may accompany the use of IPCC systems. This investigation also provides insights into the issues associated with IPCC and the scale and type of operation and orebody that is likely to provide a feasible alternative to truck haulage.展开更多
Electric cable shovel(ECS)is a complex production equipment,which is widely utilized in open-pit mines.Rational valuations of load is the foundation for the development of intelligent or unmanned ECS,since it directly...Electric cable shovel(ECS)is a complex production equipment,which is widely utilized in open-pit mines.Rational valuations of load is the foundation for the development of intelligent or unmanned ECS,since it directly influences the planning of digging trajectories and energy consumption.Load prediction of ECS mainly consists of two types of methods:physics-based modeling and data-driven methods.The former approach is based on known physical laws,usually,it is necessarily approximations of reality due to incomplete knowledge of certain processes,which introduces bias.The latter captures features/patterns from data in an end-to-end manner without dwelling on domain expertise but requires a large amount of accurately labeled data to achieve generalization,which introduces variance.In addition,some parts of load are non-observable and latent,which cannot be measured from actual system sensing,so they can’t be predicted by data-driven methods.Herein,an innovative hybrid physics-informed deep neural network(HPINN)architecture,which combines physics-based models and data-driven methods to predict dynamic load of ECS,is presented.In the proposed framework,some parts of the theoretical model are incorporated,while capturing the difficult-to-model part by training a highly expressive approximator with data.Prior physics knowledge,such as Lagrangian mechanics and the conservation of energy,is considered extra constraints,and embedded in the overall loss function to enforce model training in a feasible solution space.The satisfactory performance of the proposed framework is verified through both synthetic and actual measurement dataset.展开更多
When shovels load the dump trucks with over 100-ton passes under gravity dumping conditions, they will create a large impact force on the dump truck body which generates high frequency shock waves which expose the ope...When shovels load the dump trucks with over 100-ton passes under gravity dumping conditions, they will create a large impact force on the dump truck body which generates high frequency shock waves which expose the operators to whole body vibrations (WBV). The main cause of such truck vibrations is the large impact force due to the gravity dumping of large tonnage passes. Therefore a rigorous mathematical model has been developed for the impact force containing all the necessary factors upon which it depends. Latter, a thorough analysis shows that percentage reduction of 7.19%, 9.40%, 13.27%, 14.8%, 17.30% and 18.13% can he achieved by reducing the dumping distance to 6.33 m, 6.0 m, 5.5 m, 5.33 m, 5.0 m and 4.9 m, respectively, as compared to when the dumping distance was 7.33 m. Even more reduction in the magnitude of impact force can he observed if the shovel pass gets divided into more than two sub-passes. Therefore, these models can he used to figure out the number of sub-passes into which a single ore pass can he divided and/or the extent to which the dumping distance can he reduced which would reduce the impact force significantly enough to obtain safer yet economic operations.展开更多
Rope shovels are used to dig and load materials in surface mines. One of the main factors that influence the production rate and energy consumption of rope shovels is the performance of the operator. This paper presen...Rope shovels are used to dig and load materials in surface mines. One of the main factors that influence the production rate and energy consumption of rope shovels is the performance of the operator. This paper presents a method for evaluating rope shovel operators using the Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) model. Data used in this research were collected from an operating surface coal mine in the southern United States. The MADM model consists of attributes, their weights of importance, and alter- natives. Shovel operators are considered the alternatives, The energy consumption model was developed with multiple regression analysis, and its variables were included in the MADM model as attributes. Preferences with respect to min/max of the defined attributes were obtained with multi-objective opti- mization. Multi-objective optimization was conducted with the overall goal of minimizing energy con- sumption and maximizing production rate. Weights of importance of the attributes were determined by the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), The overall evaluation of operators was performed by one of the MADM models, i.e., PROMETHEE If. The research results presented here may be used by mining professionals to held evaluate the performance of rode shovel operators in surface mining.展开更多
Mining shovel is a crucial piece of equipment for high-efficiency production in open-pit mining and stands as one of the largest energy consumption sources in mining.However,substantial energy waste occurs during the ...Mining shovel is a crucial piece of equipment for high-efficiency production in open-pit mining and stands as one of the largest energy consumption sources in mining.However,substantial energy waste occurs during the descent of the hoisting system or the deceleration of the slewing platform.To reduce the energy loss,an innovative hydrau-lic-electric hybrid drive system is proposed,in which a hydraulic pump/motor connected with an accumulator is added to assist the electric motor to drive the hoisting system or slewing platform,recycling kinetic and potential energy.The utilization of the kinetic and potential energy reduces the energy loss and installed power of the min-ing shovel.Meanwhile,the reliability of the mining shovel pure electric drive system also can be increased.In this paper,the hydraulic-electric hybrid driving principle is introduced,a small-scale testbed is set up to verify the feasibil-ity of the system,and a co-simulation model of the proposed system is established to clarify the system operation and energy characteristics.The test and simulation results show that,by adopting the proposed system,compared with the traditional purely electric driving system,the peak power and energy consumption of the hoisting electric motor are reduced by 36.7%and 29.7%,respectively.Similarly,the slewing electric motor experiences a significant decrease in peak power by 86.9%and a reduction in energy consumption by 59.4%.The proposed system expands the application area of the hydraulic electric hybrid drive system and provides a reference for its application in over-sized and super heavy equipment.展开更多
The control system determines the effectiveness of an underwater hydraulic shock shovel. This paper begins by analyzing the working principles of these shovels and explains the importance of their control systems. A n...The control system determines the effectiveness of an underwater hydraulic shock shovel. This paper begins by analyzing the working principles of these shovels and explains the importance of their control systems. A new type of control system’s mathematical model was built and analyzed according to those principles. Since the initial control system’s response time could not fulfill the design requirements, a PID controller was added to the control system. System response time was still slower than required, so a neural network was added to nonlinearly regulate the proportional element, integral element and derivative element coefficients of the PID controller. After these improvements to the control system, system parameters fulfilled the design requirements. The working performance of electrically-controlled parts such as the rapidly moving high speed switch valve is largely determined by the control system. Normal control methods generally can’t satisfy a shovel’s requirements, so advanced and normal control methods were combined to improve the control system, bringing good results.展开更多
The performance of a digging shovel mainly depends on the style of the shovel, while the conventional experiment methods always suffer from the problems of high lost and long period. Aiming at these problems and the c...The performance of a digging shovel mainly depends on the style of the shovel, while the conventional experiment methods always suffer from the problems of high lost and long period. Aiming at these problems and the characteristic that soil is composed of countless small particles, dynamic simulation analysis was performed on the resistance to a bionic digging shovel and crushing rate of the soil during the normal working process of the bionic digging shovel by EDEM through numerical simulation, calculation and comparison. The results showed that compared with the ordinary shovel, the average drag-reducing rate in the X direction was 10.41%, and the average drag-reducing rate in the Y direction was 16.28%, and the soil crushing rate was improved by 2.67%. Therefore, the bionic digging shovel has certain superiority and extension value in structure and performance. Moreover, this analysis case fully demonstrates the unique advantage of DEM method and its generalizability, and provides certain reference for similar studies.展开更多
Shovel board is an important component of the roadheader. Shovel board participate in complex and changeable tunneling work, and always under high load. In this paper, research the working condition of shovel board an...Shovel board is an important component of the roadheader. Shovel board participate in complex and changeable tunneling work, and always under high load. In this paper, research the working condition of shovel board and analyze the shovel board by Inventor, and reach the stress and strain distribution in the shovel board bear the maximum force when working. Have some guiding on improving the shovel board structure design.展开更多
This study proposes an adaptive control strategy for unmanned mining shovel digging trajectory tracking based on radial basis function neural network(RBFNN)and a class of unmanned mining shovel time-varying systems wi...This study proposes an adaptive control strategy for unmanned mining shovel digging trajectory tracking based on radial basis function neural network(RBFNN)and a class of unmanned mining shovel time-varying systems with model uncertainty and external disturbances.A new set of Lagrangian dynamics differential equations is reconstructed by utilizing the kinematic model of the electric shovel and considering external disturbances along with modeling uncertainties.This approach lays the groundwork for subsequent adaptive controllers.The proposed controller is designed to regulate the position errors of the unmanned mining electric shovel system,which is characterized by a complex structure,high load,large size,and strong coupling.It takes the deviation values and their derivatives of the lifting and pushing movements as inputs and adjusts the output torque to converge the bucket position to the desired trajectory.The controller utilizes the RBFNN in the control law to compensate for uncertainties in this type of system with large disturbances and inertia.This compensation helps eliminate the impact of external disturbances and modeling uncertainties on the unmanned mining electric shovel’s ability to follow the excavation trajectory.The consistent boundedness of the closed-loop system’s ultimate limits is proven through Lyapunov stability theory.Finally,the effectiveness of the proposed solution is validated through simulation experiments.展开更多
With the proposal of intelligent mines,unmanned mining has become a research hotspot in recent years.In the field of autonomous excavation,environmental perception and excavation trajectory planning are two key issues...With the proposal of intelligent mines,unmanned mining has become a research hotspot in recent years.In the field of autonomous excavation,environmental perception and excavation trajectory planning are two key issues because they have considerable influences on operation performance.In this study,an unmanned electric shovel(UES)is developed,and key robotization processes consisting of environment modeling and optimal excavation trajectory planning are presented.Initially,the point cloud of the material surface is collected and reconstructed by polynomial response surface(PRS)method.Then,by establishing the dynamical model of the UES,a point to point(PTP)excavation trajectory planning method is developed to improve both the mining efficiency and fill factor and to reduce the energy consumption.Based on optimal trajectory command,the UES performs autonomous excavation.The experimental results show that the proposed surface reconstruction method can accurately represent the material surface.On the basis of reconstructed surface,the PTP trajectory planning method rapidly obtains a reasonable mining trajectory with high fill factor and mining efficiency.Compared with the common excavation trajectory planning approaches,the proposed method tends to be more capable in terms of mining time and energy consumption,ensuring high-performance excavation of the UES in practical mining environment.展开更多
Multiobjective trajectory planning is still face challenges due to certain practical requirements and mul-tiple contradicting objectives optimized simultaneously.In this paper,a multiobjective trajectory optimization ...Multiobjective trajectory planning is still face challenges due to certain practical requirements and mul-tiple contradicting objectives optimized simultaneously.In this paper,a multiobjective trajectory optimization approach that sets energy consumption,execution time,and excavation volume as the objective functions is presented for the electro-hydraulic shovel(EHS).The proposed cubic polynomial S-curve is employed to plan the crowd and hoist speed of EHS.Then,a novel hybrid constrained multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition is proposed to deal with this constrained multiobjective optimization problem.The normalization of objectives is introduced to minimize the unfavorable effect of orders of magnitude.A novel hybrid constraint handling approach based onε-constraint and the adaptive penalty function method is utilized to discover infeasible solution information and improve population diversity.Finally,the entropy weight technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution method is used to select the most satisfied solution from the Pareto optimal set.The performance of the proposed strategy is validated and analyzed by a series of simulation and experimental studies.Results show that the proposed approach can provide the high-quality Pareto optimal solutions and outperforms other trajectory optimization schemes investigated in this article.展开更多
文摘In a global environment where energy and labor are becoming increasingly expensive, continuous mining systems such as In-Pit Crushing and Conveying(IPCC) systems have been advanced as offering a real alternative to conventional truck haulage systems. The implementation of IPCC systems in hard rock operations in open pit mines however requires different and more comprehensive planning approaches in order to adequately reflect the practical aspects associated with these. This paper investigates the impact that these approaches may have on the implementation of IPCC systems on a basic metalliferous deposit amenable to open pit exploitation. A strategic life of mine plan to provide numerous economic indicators for each approach is analyzed and compared to traditional truck haulage systems. The mine planning and evaluation process highlights the increased overall resource recovery that may accompany the use of IPCC systems. This investigation also provides insights into the issues associated with IPCC and the scale and type of operation and orebody that is likely to provide a feasible alternative to truck haulage.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52075068)Shanxi Provincial Science and Technology Major Project(Grant No.20191101014).
文摘Electric cable shovel(ECS)is a complex production equipment,which is widely utilized in open-pit mines.Rational valuations of load is the foundation for the development of intelligent or unmanned ECS,since it directly influences the planning of digging trajectories and energy consumption.Load prediction of ECS mainly consists of two types of methods:physics-based modeling and data-driven methods.The former approach is based on known physical laws,usually,it is necessarily approximations of reality due to incomplete knowledge of certain processes,which introduces bias.The latter captures features/patterns from data in an end-to-end manner without dwelling on domain expertise but requires a large amount of accurately labeled data to achieve generalization,which introduces variance.In addition,some parts of load are non-observable and latent,which cannot be measured from actual system sensing,so they can’t be predicted by data-driven methods.Herein,an innovative hybrid physics-informed deep neural network(HPINN)architecture,which combines physics-based models and data-driven methods to predict dynamic load of ECS,is presented.In the proposed framework,some parts of the theoretical model are incorporated,while capturing the difficult-to-model part by training a highly expressive approximator with data.Prior physics knowledge,such as Lagrangian mechanics and the conservation of energy,is considered extra constraints,and embedded in the overall loss function to enforce model training in a feasible solution space.The satisfactory performance of the proposed framework is verified through both synthetic and actual measurement dataset.
文摘When shovels load the dump trucks with over 100-ton passes under gravity dumping conditions, they will create a large impact force on the dump truck body which generates high frequency shock waves which expose the operators to whole body vibrations (WBV). The main cause of such truck vibrations is the large impact force due to the gravity dumping of large tonnage passes. Therefore a rigorous mathematical model has been developed for the impact force containing all the necessary factors upon which it depends. Latter, a thorough analysis shows that percentage reduction of 7.19%, 9.40%, 13.27%, 14.8%, 17.30% and 18.13% can he achieved by reducing the dumping distance to 6.33 m, 6.0 m, 5.5 m, 5.33 m, 5.0 m and 4.9 m, respectively, as compared to when the dumping distance was 7.33 m. Even more reduction in the magnitude of impact force can he observed if the shovel pass gets divided into more than two sub-passes. Therefore, these models can he used to figure out the number of sub-passes into which a single ore pass can he divided and/or the extent to which the dumping distance can he reduced which would reduce the impact force significantly enough to obtain safer yet economic operations.
文摘Rope shovels are used to dig and load materials in surface mines. One of the main factors that influence the production rate and energy consumption of rope shovels is the performance of the operator. This paper presents a method for evaluating rope shovel operators using the Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) model. Data used in this research were collected from an operating surface coal mine in the southern United States. The MADM model consists of attributes, their weights of importance, and alter- natives. Shovel operators are considered the alternatives, The energy consumption model was developed with multiple regression analysis, and its variables were included in the MADM model as attributes. Preferences with respect to min/max of the defined attributes were obtained with multi-objective opti- mization. Multi-objective optimization was conducted with the overall goal of minimizing energy con- sumption and maximizing production rate. Weights of importance of the attributes were determined by the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), The overall evaluation of operators was performed by one of the MADM models, i.e., PROMETHEE If. The research results presented here may be used by mining professionals to held evaluate the performance of rode shovel operators in surface mining.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U1910211)National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2021YFB2011903).
文摘Mining shovel is a crucial piece of equipment for high-efficiency production in open-pit mining and stands as one of the largest energy consumption sources in mining.However,substantial energy waste occurs during the descent of the hoisting system or the deceleration of the slewing platform.To reduce the energy loss,an innovative hydrau-lic-electric hybrid drive system is proposed,in which a hydraulic pump/motor connected with an accumulator is added to assist the electric motor to drive the hoisting system or slewing platform,recycling kinetic and potential energy.The utilization of the kinetic and potential energy reduces the energy loss and installed power of the min-ing shovel.Meanwhile,the reliability of the mining shovel pure electric drive system also can be increased.In this paper,the hydraulic-electric hybrid driving principle is introduced,a small-scale testbed is set up to verify the feasibil-ity of the system,and a co-simulation model of the proposed system is established to clarify the system operation and energy characteristics.The test and simulation results show that,by adopting the proposed system,compared with the traditional purely electric driving system,the peak power and energy consumption of the hoisting electric motor are reduced by 36.7%and 29.7%,respectively.Similarly,the slewing electric motor experiences a significant decrease in peak power by 86.9%and a reduction in energy consumption by 59.4%.The proposed system expands the application area of the hydraulic electric hybrid drive system and provides a reference for its application in over-sized and super heavy equipment.
基金the 863 Program Item of Hi-tech Research and Development Program of China Foundation under Grant No.2002AA602012-1Harbin Engineering University Foundation under Grant No. HEUFT05071the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education under Grant No.20070217016.
文摘The control system determines the effectiveness of an underwater hydraulic shock shovel. This paper begins by analyzing the working principles of these shovels and explains the importance of their control systems. A new type of control system’s mathematical model was built and analyzed according to those principles. Since the initial control system’s response time could not fulfill the design requirements, a PID controller was added to the control system. System response time was still slower than required, so a neural network was added to nonlinearly regulate the proportional element, integral element and derivative element coefficients of the PID controller. After these improvements to the control system, system parameters fulfilled the design requirements. The working performance of electrically-controlled parts such as the rapidly moving high speed switch valve is largely determined by the control system. Normal control methods generally can’t satisfy a shovel’s requirements, so advanced and normal control methods were combined to improve the control system, bringing good results.
文摘The performance of a digging shovel mainly depends on the style of the shovel, while the conventional experiment methods always suffer from the problems of high lost and long period. Aiming at these problems and the characteristic that soil is composed of countless small particles, dynamic simulation analysis was performed on the resistance to a bionic digging shovel and crushing rate of the soil during the normal working process of the bionic digging shovel by EDEM through numerical simulation, calculation and comparison. The results showed that compared with the ordinary shovel, the average drag-reducing rate in the X direction was 10.41%, and the average drag-reducing rate in the Y direction was 16.28%, and the soil crushing rate was improved by 2.67%. Therefore, the bionic digging shovel has certain superiority and extension value in structure and performance. Moreover, this analysis case fully demonstrates the unique advantage of DEM method and its generalizability, and provides certain reference for similar studies.
文摘Shovel board is an important component of the roadheader. Shovel board participate in complex and changeable tunneling work, and always under high load. In this paper, research the working condition of shovel board and analyze the shovel board by Inventor, and reach the stress and strain distribution in the shovel board bear the maximum force when working. Have some guiding on improving the shovel board structure design.
基金supported by the Major Science and Technology Project of Shanxi Province,China(Grant No.20191101014)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52075068).
文摘This study proposes an adaptive control strategy for unmanned mining shovel digging trajectory tracking based on radial basis function neural network(RBFNN)and a class of unmanned mining shovel time-varying systems with model uncertainty and external disturbances.A new set of Lagrangian dynamics differential equations is reconstructed by utilizing the kinematic model of the electric shovel and considering external disturbances along with modeling uncertainties.This approach lays the groundwork for subsequent adaptive controllers.The proposed controller is designed to regulate the position errors of the unmanned mining electric shovel system,which is characterized by a complex structure,high load,large size,and strong coupling.It takes the deviation values and their derivatives of the lifting and pushing movements as inputs and adjusts the output torque to converge the bucket position to the desired trajectory.The controller utilizes the RBFNN in the control law to compensate for uncertainties in this type of system with large disturbances and inertia.This compensation helps eliminate the impact of external disturbances and modeling uncertainties on the unmanned mining electric shovel’s ability to follow the excavation trajectory.The consistent boundedness of the closed-loop system’s ultimate limits is proven through Lyapunov stability theory.Finally,the effectiveness of the proposed solution is validated through simulation experiments.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52075068)the Science and Technology Major Project of Shanxi Province,China(Grant No.20191101014).
文摘With the proposal of intelligent mines,unmanned mining has become a research hotspot in recent years.In the field of autonomous excavation,environmental perception and excavation trajectory planning are two key issues because they have considerable influences on operation performance.In this study,an unmanned electric shovel(UES)is developed,and key robotization processes consisting of environment modeling and optimal excavation trajectory planning are presented.Initially,the point cloud of the material surface is collected and reconstructed by polynomial response surface(PRS)method.Then,by establishing the dynamical model of the UES,a point to point(PTP)excavation trajectory planning method is developed to improve both the mining efficiency and fill factor and to reduce the energy consumption.Based on optimal trajectory command,the UES performs autonomous excavation.The experimental results show that the proposed surface reconstruction method can accurately represent the material surface.On the basis of reconstructed surface,the PTP trajectory planning method rapidly obtains a reasonable mining trajectory with high fill factor and mining efficiency.Compared with the common excavation trajectory planning approaches,the proposed method tends to be more capable in terms of mining time and energy consumption,ensuring high-performance excavation of the UES in practical mining environment.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U1910211).
文摘Multiobjective trajectory planning is still face challenges due to certain practical requirements and mul-tiple contradicting objectives optimized simultaneously.In this paper,a multiobjective trajectory optimization approach that sets energy consumption,execution time,and excavation volume as the objective functions is presented for the electro-hydraulic shovel(EHS).The proposed cubic polynomial S-curve is employed to plan the crowd and hoist speed of EHS.Then,a novel hybrid constrained multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition is proposed to deal with this constrained multiobjective optimization problem.The normalization of objectives is introduced to minimize the unfavorable effect of orders of magnitude.A novel hybrid constraint handling approach based onε-constraint and the adaptive penalty function method is utilized to discover infeasible solution information and improve population diversity.Finally,the entropy weight technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution method is used to select the most satisfied solution from the Pareto optimal set.The performance of the proposed strategy is validated and analyzed by a series of simulation and experimental studies.Results show that the proposed approach can provide the high-quality Pareto optimal solutions and outperforms other trajectory optimization schemes investigated in this article.