Automation of a load-haul-dump (LHD) unit

摘要

The load-haul-dump (LHD) unit is used extensively in underground mining toperform a variety of tasks within this field. The underground mining environmentis extremely dangerous where some LHD accidents have caused major injuryand occasional deaths to the operators onboard these vehicles as well as othermining crew, this is why a control system implemented onto these vehicleswould be ideal.This project investigates and finally implements of a tele-operated andautomated control system onto an existing scale model of a LHD unit. Since thetele-operated system uses a camera, it was decided that the automated systemwould also use a simple type of machine vision in its guidance.