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2011 common mine model
1. Transforming the Future Mine:
The case for the Common Mine Model
Elliot Duff and Stephen Fraser
Principal Research Scientist
TM
2. CSIRO
• National Science Agency
• Total revenue of $1.3 billion
• $634.8 million external revenue
• Supporting Australian Industry
• Minerals Down Under Flagship
Industry
Partner
Commercial
Partner
Research
Partner
Technology
Transfer
Research
Project
3. CSIRO in the Minerals Sector
Drilling Exploration Cutting Logistics
Hylogger Mapping Communications Automation
Rehabilitation Sensor Networks Decision Support Visualization
Environ Sensors Analysis Online monitoring Interfaces
5. Unified User Interface
3DCMM
Communications Infrastructure
Common Mine Model
Exploration
MinePlanning
Drilling
Excavation
Blasting
Haulage
RockBreaking
Processing
Train
ShipLoading
Process
Surveying Analysis Infrastructure Maintenance LogisticsSupport
Framework of Standards
Remote
Operations
Local
Operations
Information flow
Vendors
6. Implementation #1:
Exploration & Mapping
CSIRO. The Next Generation Mine
Geochemical Geological Geotechnical Physical
Terrain Mapping Reconciliation Modeling Back analysis
Geo-Sensing Iso-Surface Simulation SLAM
M4D (Mining in the 4th Dimension)
Interactive Feed-forward/back Information/Knowledge
System to facilitate Geologically Intelligent Mining
7. Implementation #2:
Communications & Localization
Create a framework of communications standards to support the interoperability
of heterogeneous mobile autonomous surface mining equipment, which will
provide enterprise integration of automation technology into the mining business
Mining
Companies
Communications
Framework
Research
Institutes
Requirements Technology
Shearer Position Measurement
System hardware modules
Ngara rural wireless broadband
10. Future Trends:
Drivers and Opportunities
FMG Next Generation Mining 14 March 2011 Elliot Duff
P1 P2 P3 P4M1
P1 P2 P3 P4M2
M3
Mine Business
Centre
Social
Factors
Remote
Mining
Tele
Workers
Your data and infrastructure is
your business
Private Cloud
Remote
Service
Providers
Remote
Operations
Centres
Mine Virtualisation
11. Contact Us
Phone: 1300 363 400 or +61 3 9545 2176
Email: enquiries@csiro.au Web: www.csiro.au
CSIRO
Dr. Elliot Duff
Principal Research Scientist
Phone: +61 7 33274632
Email: elliot.duff@csiro.au
Web: research.ict.csiro.au
To see presentation “Mining in the Cloud”, go to the bottom of page
http://research.ict.csiro.au/research/labs/autonomous-systems/field-robotics/mining-robotics
To see another presentation “Mapping the Unknown”, go to the bottom of page
http://research.ict.csiro.au/research/labs/autonomous-systems/field-robotics/mapping-and-localisation
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Notes de l'éditeur
Common Mine Model
As ore quality continues to degrade the potential to improve returns by properly managing the integration of the mining tasks from exploration through to metal production and finally site restoration becomes evident. The process that ensures that all of the data that is used and developed during each task is then passed on to subsequent tasks (or passed back to modify planning) is currently unreliable and adds little value. A truly integrated mine site will have a common database that has the ability to be accessed and updated by the various software systems. We have called this the Common Mine Model (CMM), which is a 4D model that mirrors the current state of the mine (3D) and evolves in time (from exploration to restoration). Contained within the model are references to the original data, and a measure of the systems confidence in the data (i.e. its quality). Without knowing the quality of data, the future dreams of remote operations and automation will not be efficiently achieved.
The task of developing protocols that will provide the free exchange of information between the various software systems on a mine site is not small. Many groups including CSIRO, IREDES, and various consulting companies and communications companies have had experience in integrating a limited number of items in the mining chain, but in general only a small portion of the chain. Part of this proposal is the creation of a framework of standards that will support the CMM.
CSIRO is a billion dollar organisation
Directs 89% of its total expenditure towards the priority goals associated with Australia’s National Research Priorities.
Mainly government funded, CSIRO is a major component of the Australian Government’s spend on the National Innovation System
600 Researchers in Mining Sector.
Australia's high-grade deposits are being rapidly depleted and the Australian mining industry is facing the challenge of declining grades.
The long-term consequence of this trend to lower grades and challenging terrain is that the surface mines of the future will be bigger, while underground mines will often be deeper, hotter, and will suffer higher in-situ rock stress.
The industry is also facing a number of other long-term challenges, such as the remote location and isolation of mines, limited human resources and difficult mining conditions.
There is a growing need to reduce the mining environmental footprint.
Information flow is critical to an integrated mining system
Move beyond Bespoke communication solutions.
The challenge for automation is the interaction with other processes.
Real value can be achieved when we link automated systems
Common Mine Model
Contains 3D distributions of geological, geochemical, geotechnical, petrophysical and physical property data at different resolutions;
Provides framework for establishing relationships between various input parameters
A mechanism for forward modelling, reconciliation and back-analysis
Transforming the Future Mine through Geologically Intelligent Surface Mining
Geosensing" slide
FMG is very interested in this as indicated by Bao - I think this could read: Transforming the
future mine through Geologically Intelligent Surface Mining - perhaps a brief def on
geosensing would help introduce the topic - Jonathon, could you please help here. A picture of the
output from GPR and other - Jonathon, please help here. Also, Real Time Water quality monitoring
might fit in here as well - if we do not have enough time later. Please consider it
For the mining companies (who have a list of requirements) and the research institutes (who have an understanding of the technology) to distil from the OEM’s, the standards and regulatory bodies (see Table below) the SMA framework
Since off-the-shelf equipment may not fulfil all of the above requirements, the following recommendations are advanced.
• Production, safety and communication management plans include risk analyses that identify appropriate levels of communications reliability, availability and redundancy.
• Operate communications management tools.
• Signal strength surveys and propagation prediction tools are used to assist in wireless coverage estimation.
• Future purchases of communication equipment are checked for compliance with quality of service standards.
• Demand data rate of low priority applications is controlled according to the prevailing conditions.
• Administration and production traffic should be physically separated where possible and logically separated elsewhere.
• A program to establish sufficient reliability, redundancy and availability be implemented. Some level of redundancy should be established for all production-critical and safety-critical communication components.
• Mine sites should be divided into personnel/manned-vehicle zones and autonomous vehicle zones. Integrated positioning and communication systems that report personnel/manned-vehicle zone timeouts need to be developed.
• Exhaustive mine site testing should be conducted to establish that positioning capabilities which include satellite navigation provide acceptable performance under all operational conditions.
• Mine positioning standards need to be evolved so that multiple vendors can deliver interoperable technologies to mines.
• No sufficiently compelling reasons have been found to suggest a change from the use of IEEE 802.11x WiFi in the short term. In the medium and long terms, the use of IEEE 802.16x WiMAX should be investigated for backhaul and client access.
• Future mine sites should be designed for autonomous operation, in which all subscribers maintain line-of-sight with a communications tower.
• A safe-to-go heartbeat signal should be broadcast to autonomous vehicle zones. Redundant heartbeat messages can be sent via WiMAX or HF radio.
• Mines and vendors should collaborate to establish a common communications standard for mine automation.
Example surface and Underground projects
Introduce mining business centres
Develop new resource service capability organisation models
Obtain vastly improved visibility across the entire value chain
Transition from batch to continuous mining operation
Highly efficient mining production using remote service providers
Exploit emergent cloud capabilities (online workforce)
Mining Services – Hyrid integration – mix vertical and Horizontal
Cloud services – Scalable / redundancy / reconfigurable
4) Implementation strategy à Future Impact/Value/New options
a. Strong visibility across the value chain
b. Exploiting cloud
c. Virtualisation options
d. Service oriented
e. CSIRO a key player to deliver technologies