Vehicle operation safety monitoring using context based metrics: A case study

Abstract

This paper presents results of the deployment of vehicle safety systems developed by the Intelligent Vehicles and Safety Systems Group at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics. The technology was deployed within an active mine site in Australia undergoing standard open-cut mining operations. Data were collected from the vehicles and analysed in order to assess the overall safety and performance of the vehicle operations within the mine. Metrics calculated include distributions of vehicle paths along stretches of road for driving line analysis, and statistics around vehicle events such as overspeed and proximity to other vehicles.