SMART LOADER
June 1st, 2003
BY MATTHEW BRACEAUSTRALIAN firm Dynamic Automation Systems (DAS) has invented an autonomous navigation system called MINEGEM? (which it has dubbed the "smart loader"), allowing operators to control machines remotely from the surface.Using an autopilot system the operator can control several machines at once, ordering them to pick up materials, carry them to a dump point and return to the draw point.According to DAS's managing director, Tim Macpherson, the system represents "the first time that the materials movement cycle can be precisely controlled and ...
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