Vehicle Proximity Awareness by Inter-Vehicle Communication for Surface Mine Operation Safety

摘要: In surface mine environment, the size of mining equipment is typically very huge. Therefore, sight equip- ment operators in high- mounted cockpits severely limited and those are often unaware approaching or nearby vehicles. It reported that this unawareness causes serious accidents, which motivates us for proximity detection Inter-Vehicle Communication (IVC) a promising approach road transport but not directly applicable to vehicles due different features radio propagation affected by huge bodies terrain. paper, we propose method leverages IVC support drivers' awareness mine. The idea build model haul trucks, most typical mine, accurate ray-tracing. validated field experiment, where actual signal measured compared with model. Then steep cliffs excavation seen, modeled estimate received strength based on locations trucks antenna locations. As result, point out several blind spots such significant V2V