Fleet Scheduling in Underground Mines Using Constraint Programming

摘要

The profitability of an underground mine is greatly affected by the scheduling of the mobile production fleet. Today, most mine operations are scheduled manually, which is a tedious and error-prone activity. In this contribution, we present and formalize the underground mine scheduling problem, and propose a CP-based model for solving it. The model is evaluated on instances generated from real data. The results are promising and show a potential for further extensions.