Underground mining is expected to lead the mining industry in the near future. Due to the
advance of electronic devices and communications technologies, new safety regulations …

After a recent series of unfortunate underground mining disasters, the vital importance of
communications for underground mining is underlined one more time. Establishing reliable …

This chapter presents an overview of the state of the art in mining robotics, from surface to
underground applications, and beyond. Mining is the practice of extracting resources for …

In the last decade, new developments took place in the area of indoor positioning (or
localization). Since the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) cannot be used in …

This paper introduces a real-time localization system (RTLS) using efficient multiple
propagation models to compensate for the drawback of the received signal strength …

Digital transformation (DT) is defined as a strategy for boosting mining assets by attempting
significant changes to of own properties through the integration of communication, data …

A practical localization technology for underground drift networks—such as those excavated
in the practice of underground mining—has yet to become commercially available. This …

The trend of automation in industry, and in the society in general, is something that probably
all of us have noticed. The mining industry is no exception to this trend, and there exists a …

The mining industry is currently facing a transition from manual operation to remote or semi-
automated control. The vision is fully autonomous vehicles being part of a larger fleet, with …

Applications of wireless sensor network (WSN) have been widely developed recently. This
paper represents distributed rescue robots applying the techniques of WSN to achieve …