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FebThe Challenge The project involved analyzing the transport operations of a single-track railway corridor used for bulk material transportation. The railway operates with a centralized control system and includes multiple passing loops to allow trains traveling in opposite directions to operate efficiently. Each train consists of a set number of wagons carrying thousands of tons of material. […]
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JanChallenge This project represented mining operations conducted by AI-powered swarm robotic mining systems with three types of robots: excavators, collectors, and surveyors. The challenge was to study the operational behavior of these robots for a given layout and understand how different setups of these robots would impact performance metrics. Excavators are robots that have two arms with[…]
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JunChallenge Seriti is a mining company in South Africa that uses continuous miners to fetch coal from mines that are underground using a particular configuration for the mining process as can be seen in figure 1. The mining strategy requires defining very particular road sizes in order to extract coal effectively. While the continuous miners extract the[…]
