Robotic mining equipment plays an increasingly important role in the coal mining industry.
Due to the complexity of the confined underground environment, available localization …

The expressive power of Bayesian kernel-based methods has led them to become an
important tool across many different facets of artificial intelligence, and useful to a plethora of …

This book describes the classical smoothing, filtering and prediction techniques together
with some more recently developed embellishments for improving performance within …

Multidimensional control systems have been the subject of much productive research over
more than three decades. In contrast to standard control systems, there has been much less …

Accurate localization of the shearer is key to achieving efficient, automated, unmanned
mining. Unfortunately, the existing positioning algorithms usually yields low-precision …

The shearer positioning method is of great significance to the automation of longwall mining.
The research teams in the Longwall Automation Steering Committee (LASC) of Australia …

Underground extraction of coal is characterized by high variability of mining and geological
conditions in which it is conducted. Despite ever more effective methods and tools, used to …

Accurate positioning of the shearer remains a challenge for automation of the longwall coal
mining process. In this paper, the popular Ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning system that has …

Horizon control, maintaining the alignment of the shearer's exploitation gradient with the
coal seam gradient, is a key technique in longwall mining automation. To identify the coal …

Longwall shearer positioning with an inertial navigation system (INS) aided by an odometer
is the key technology for automation of the longwall coal mining process. In order to improve …