Cost Optimisation for Underground Mining Networks

Cost Optimisation for Underground Mining Networks

In this paper we consider the problem of optimising the construction and haulage costs of underground mining networks. We focus on a model of underground mine networks consisting of ramps in which each ramp has a bounded maximum gradient. The cost depends on the lengths of the ramps, the tonnages hauled through them and their gradients. We model such an underground mine network as an edgeweight...

Constrained Path Optimisation for Underground Mine Layout

The major infrastructure component required to develop an underground mine is a decline, which is a system of tunnels used for access and haulage. In this paper we study the problem of designing a decline of minimum cost where cost is a combination of development and haulage costs over the life of the mine. A key design consideration is that the decline must be navigable to trucks and mining eq...

Optimisation for Data Mining in Peer - to - Peer Sensor Networks

Data mining concerns theories, methodologies, and, in particular, computer systems for knowledge extraction or mining from large amounts of data (Han & Kamber, 2000). The extensive studies on data mining have led to many theories, methodologies, efficient algorithms and tools for the discovery of different kinds of knowledge from different types of data. In spite of their differences, they shar...

Underground Mining Transportation Systems

A robotic system for underground coal mining