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Driverless haulage trucks have recently been developed for open pit mines. To predict the benefits of an Autonomous Haulage System (AHS), a deterministic/stochastic model has been created to compare AHS to a manual system by estimating benchmarked Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as productivity, safety, breakdown frequencies, maintenance and labor costs, fuel consumption, tire wear, and cycle times. As this model is very complex and still in the process of development, the goal of this paper is to describe the model developed to describe vehicle motion and fuel consumption.
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Parreira, J., Meech, J. (2011). Autonomous Haulage Systems – Justification and Opportunity. In: Kamel, M., Karray, F., Gueaieb, W., Khamis, A. (eds) Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. AIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6752. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21538-4_7
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