Evaluation of wireless short-range communication performance in a quarry environment

Vernersson, Susanne; Kalpaxidou, Eleni; Rylander, David

doi:10.1109/iccve.2013.6799812

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“…In [2] it was shown that quarry sites can have up to 30% wastes in waiting times and unnecessary stops. In addition, [8] shows that communication coverage can be obtained with wireless ad-hoc communication technologies between mobile machines in a quarry environment. This paper indicates that using wireless communication to address the need for scheduling to minimize waste would potentially be able to save up to 42% fuel in poorly optimized sites.…”

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Energy savings by wireless control of speed, scheduling and travel times for hauling operation

Rylander

Axelsson

Wallin

2014

2014 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Proceedings

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Abstract-A Quarry and Aggregate production site consist of sequential production processes and activities to process and produce the output products. Compared to a fixed manufacturing plant, the quarry processes involve mobile machines such as wheel loaders, trucks and articulated haulers and a highly dynamic road infrastructure. Today, the mobile machines are generally not synchronized or controlled towards the overall throughput of the site in real time. This indicates a general improvement potential in increased productivity at quarry sites, but also unsolved challenges for the same reason. Assuming a wireless control system that controls speed and throughput of the different processes and activities, there would be a fuel reduction potential in controlling the mobile machines. This optimization requires models of machine fuel consumption for different applications, velocities and travel times. The main contribution of this paper is the presentation of fuel measurements based on different speeds, site application characteristics and travel times for hauling operation. The fuel measures reveal important aspects regarding how different velocities impact fuel consumption. The results of fuel measurements show a potential in fuel savings of up to 42% and a typical improvement of 20-30% depending on machine speeds, travel times, application and site characteristics. Based on this, some of the applications and challenges in wirelessly controlling machines are discussed.

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“…On a technical basis the potential of controlling vehicles at a quarry site using wireless short range communication has successfully been demonstrated for sufficient coverage and latency in smaller quarries [8].…”

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Energy savings by wireless control of speed, scheduling and travel times for hauling operation

Rylander

Axelsson

Wallin

2014

2014 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Proceedings

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“…Recent experiments at the University of Bristol estimate the maximum range at which inter-vehicle wireless transmission is effective in a city environment to be around 200m [13]. V2V experiments conducted in even harsher environments highlight the importance of having LOS when dust clouds are present [14]. Given this background, we investigated the effect of varying the transmission radius range with both NOLOS and LOS assumptions.…”

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Large-Scale VANET Simulations and Performance Analysis using Real Taxi Trace and City Map Data

Carnelli

Sooriyabandara

Wilson

2018

2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)

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Wireless vehicular ad-hoc networks comprised solely of city taxis are investigated for their ability to deliver data across an urban environment. Openly available taxi trace datasets for Rome (Italy) and San Francisco (USA) are combined with respective building footprint and road network topology data from OpenStreetMap, to generate a realistic systems level model of a taxi V2V network. Analysis of LOS and NOLOS constraints on wireless transmission range suggests a minimum threshold of 50m is applicable to ensure LOS in over 90% of cases. Variations in taxi location sampling frequency and filtering techniques for the taxi trace datasets are also investigated. Overall vehicular network performance is computed for an all-to-one transmission scenario for both cities with varying taxi fleet size. Results suggest a non-linear relationship between increases in taxi fleet sizes and the reduction of end-to-end delay; doubling taxi fleet size (using a randomised data folding technique) reduces end-to-end delay by a factor of 0.6-0.7. However, doubling the fleet does not increase the fraction of delivered source messages, which saturates at 0.67-0.71 in most simulations. Finally it appears that taxi networks for delivering messages across urban environments are limited more by their routing than by the number of possible V2V exchanges. In a simulated one-to-all continuous V2V broadcast scenario, over 90% of the taxis within the fleet receive the source message within one hour of the original taxi passing the source node.

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“…In Finland, based on several interviews with the industrial key players, master class human operators are rare (about 1/15). Vernersson et. al (2013) have evaluated that in road construction sites and quarries, there are clear improvement potentials with the introduction of wireless communication technologies especially for safety improvements and productivity optimization.…”

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A framework for a comprehensive mobile data acquisition setting for the assessment of Urban Heat Island phenomenon

Acosta¹,

Vahdatikhaki²,

Santos³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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Evaluation of wireless short-range communication performance in a quarry environment

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Energy savings by wireless control of speed, scheduling and travel times for hauling operation

Energy savings by wireless control of speed, scheduling and travel times for hauling operation

Large-Scale VANET Simulations and Performance Analysis using Real Taxi Trace and City Map Data

A framework for a comprehensive mobile data acquisition setting for the assessment of Urban Heat Island phenomenon

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