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Norilsk Nickel introduces unmanned mountain transport

Customers: Norilsk Nickel, MMC (Norilsk Nickel)

Norilsk; Mining

Contractors: Sandvik MKTC


Project date: 2021/08

2021: Introduction of unmanned mountain transport

On August 10, 2021, it became known that the Norilsk Nickel company was introducing unmanned mountain transport. The technology allows you to turn the period of downtime into a period of operation, since the unmanned vehicle is controlled using a joystick.

Photo: Taimyr Telegraph

Blasting at mines is the reason for the shutdown of ore transportation. In this regard, the Norilsk Nickel company decided to introduce unmanned mountain transport.

During blasting operations, loading and delivery machines and mine dump trucks were usually idle. But now the company has acquired Avtomain. The system allows transport to move on a horizon of 3 km without human participation.

The machine is controlled by a joystick from the control room. He also watches how unmanned vehicles move around the workings using lidars (remote sensing technology).

The development of Avtomain was carried out by employees of the Rocky mine together with company engineers. "Sandwick" Now experts "" Norilsk Nickel are thinking about how to supply Avtomain with additional geogrids that will increase the speed of movement. transport[1]