公开(公告)号：US20240377837A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-14

申请号：US18696260

申请日：2022-09-27

Applicant: SANDVIK MINING AND CONSTRUCTION OY

Inventor： Lauso CUMINI ,  Juho VAARA

IPC: G05D1/617 ,  G05D107/70

Abstract: A method is provided including the steps of determining a set of passage control units, PCUs, enabling forming of an isolated operation zone of a mining automation system; maintaining an acknowledgement status record for the set of PCUs; determining, based on the acknowledgement status record, a PCU within the set of PCUs for completing isolation of the operation zone; selecting an acknowledgement unit located outside the operation zone to be isolated, the acknowledgement unit being associated with the PCU; and controlling, in response to receiving an acknowledgement from the selected acknowledgement unit, a state of the operation zone.