Our System
Enabling advanced guidance and automation.
Our mining guidance technology was first field-proven in the mid 1990s with continued developments to deliver results in a variety of mining applications.
MINING GUIDANCE SYSTEM
The heart of our guidance technology
Our Mining Guidance System (MGS) incorporates high-performance military-grade inertial sensors and on-board data processing to compute the 3D position and attitude of the mining machine in local and global coordinates.
The system allows for high levels of mining machine guidance, control and automation, whilst increasing accuracy and safety, leading to significantly higher yields.
KEY BENEFITS
- Machine control and automation with real-time position data for closed loop control of the mining process.
- Self-contained, configurable system design that is not reliant on external infrastructure.
- Increased productivity with sustained position accuracy over extended mining distances.
- Improved mine plan compliance using AMT-developed motion and in-seam tracking sensors.
- More data recording and insights for smarter business and operation decisions.
System Components
Process Aware Guidance
The AMT core mining navigation platform is customised for
each specific mining process and further developed in consultation with each
customer to meet the functional requirements of their mining operation. The multi-level
access controlled web interface can be customised for each customer’s operational
requirements. The incorporation of AMT seam tracking sensors allows the navigation
system to intelligently guide the mining process on-track and in-seam.
Machine Control and Automation
In additional to the fully featured web interface, an industry standard Ethernet/IP interface provides an auto-configuring interconnection with Ethernet/IP compliant machine PLC’s and controllers. A comprehensive set of high-rate control-critical MGS data is available via this interface as part of a tightly integrated machine control system.
Data Gathering and Analysis
The MGS provides an accurate track of the 3D position and pose of the mining machine during the entire mining process. Based on this, the MGS can accept user-defined external data for geo-referenced logging and post-analysis. The full navigation and geo-referenced data set is then available for analysis and visualisation as a complete set with the ability to drill down to single point location data.
Remote Support
AMT engineers can undertake most MGS diagnostic tasks via a customer-approved remote network access connection to each MGS installation. This also provides an effective means to apply configuration adjustments and fixes.