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Granted Patent B2
US 12,163,788 · App. 17/850,884 · Granted Dec 10, 2024

System and method for assigning a haul truck dump to a location

Inventors: Luciano Kiniti Issoe (Sao Paulo, BR); Tianfang Ni (Boston, MA); Luke Gerdes (Framingham, MA); Dana Geislinger (Chandler, AZ); Travis Gaddie (Phoenix, AZ); Margaret Alden Tinsley (Titusville, FL); Muneeb Alam (Alexandria, VA); Steven Chad Richardson (Thatcher, AZ); Akaash Sanyal (Boston, MA); Raquel Crossman (Mesa, AZ); Cory A. Demieville (Scottsdale, AZ); Robyn Freeman (Menlo Park, CA); Oleksandr Klesov (Lexington, MA)
Assignee: FREEPORT MINERALS CORPORATION
G01C21/005G01C21/3811G01C21/3826G06N5/022
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Patent No.
US 12,163,788
App. No.
17/850,884
Granted
Dec 10, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

The method may comprise receiving historical data (e.g., mineralogy data, irrigation data, raffinate data, heat data, lift height data, geographic data on ore placement and/or blower data); training a predictive model using the historical data to create a trained predictive model; adding future assumption data to the trained predictive model; running the forecast engine for a plurality of parameters to obtain forecast data for a mining production target; comparing the forecast data for the mining production target to the actual data for the mining production target; determining deviations between the forecast data and the actual data, based on the comparing; and changing each of the plurality of parameters from the forecast data to the actual data to determine a contribution to the deviations for each of the plurality of parameters.

Claims (47)

1. A method comprising:

determining, by one or more processors, that a haul truck completed a dump based on a mechanical property of the haul truck;

determining, by the one or more processors, that a sensor on the haul truck is not accurate;

determining, by the one or more processors, that a location provided by a dispatch system is not accurate;

assigning, by the one or more processors, the dump of the haul truck to a dummy location; and

accounting, by the one or more processors, for the dump of the haul truck at the dummy location, regardless of determining an actual location of the dump of the haul truck.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the haul truck completed the dump comprises determining, by a one or more processors, that a speed of a haul truck is below a threshold.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the haul truck completed the dump comprises receiving data from a beacon of a dispatch system about a time the haul truck arrived at a location and dumped a load.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the haul truck completed the dump is based on data from a soft sensor that processes several measurements together using control theory.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the sensor on the haul truck is not accurate is based on determining, by the one or more processors, that the sensor is broken.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising transmitting, by the one or more processors, the dummy location to a mine material tracking tool.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the haul truck completed the dump comprises determining, by the one or more processors, that a gear of the haul truck is in park.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the haul truck completed the dump comprises determining, by the one or more processors, that an emergency brake of the haul truck is set.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the haul truck completed the dump comprises determining, by the one or more processors, that a bed position of the haul truck passed a threshold height.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the sensor on the haul truck is not accurate is based on determining, by the one or more processors, that the sensor is not located on the haul truck.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

adding, by the one or more processors, the dummy location to at least one of load point data, shovel high-precision global positioning system (HPGPS) data, terrain data, provision data, mine system data, block model data or dispatch data;

receiving, by the one or more processors, chemical data and mineralogical data of ore at a plurality of blast holes;

interpolating, by the one or more processors, the plurality of blast holes in the block model data;

assigning, by the one or more processors, the plurality of blast holes to a geographic location post-blast;

merging, by the one or more processors, the geographic location post-blast, the dispatch data, the terrain data and the haul truck sensor data with the block model data;

linking, by the one or more processors, the block model data to a truck load based on the merging;

aggregating, by the one or more processors, ore characteristics for the truck load;

capturing, by the one or more processors, images of ore that is placed in the truck load to determine particle size distribution information about the ore; and

determining, by the one or more processors, a location of the ore in a stockpile.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the sensor on the haul truck is not accurate is based on determining, by the one or more processors, that a location provided by a dispatch system is more accurate.

13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining that the sensor on the haul truck is not accurate is based on reading the sensor at a time preceding the dump.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the mine system data includes at least one of mine planning data or the block model data.

15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the dispatch data includes at least one of haulage cycle data or beacon data.

16. The method of claim 1 , wherein the sensor on the haul truck provides information about the haul truck.

17. The method of claim 11 , further comprising transmitting, by the one or more processors, the location of the ore in the stockpile to a stockpile and section mapping tool.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the stockpile and section mapping tool provides data to an ore map.

19. An article of manufacture including one or more non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage mediums having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

determining, by the one or more processors, that a haul truck completed a dump based on a mechanical property of the haul truck;

determining, by the one or more processors, that a sensor on the haul truck is not accurate;

determining, by the one or more processors, that a location provided by a dispatch system is not accurate;

assigning, by the one or more processors, the dump of the haul truck to a dummy location; and

accounting, by the one or more processors, for the dump of the haul truck at the dummy location, regardless of determining an actual location of the dump of the haul truck.

20. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more tangible, non-transitory memories configured to communicate with the one or more processors,

the one or more tangible, non-transitory memories having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

determining, by the one or more processors, that a haul truck completed a dump based on a mechanical property of the haul truck;

determining, by the one or more processors, that a sensor on the haul truck is not accurate;

determining, by the one or more processors, that a location provided by a dispatch system is not accurate;

assigning, by the one or more processors, the dump of the haul truck to a dummy location; and

accounting, by the one or more processors, for the dump of the haul truck at the dummy location, regardless of determining an actual location of the dump of the haul truck.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 13, 2022
From: ISSOE, LUCIANO KINITI; NI, TIANFANG; GERDES, LUKE; GEISLINGER, DANA; GADDIE, TRAVIS; TINSLEY, MARGARET ALDEN; ALAM, MUNEEB; RICHARDSON, STEVEN CHAD; SANYAL, AKAASH; CROSSMAN, RAQUEL; DEMIEVILLE, CORY A.; FREEMAN, ROBYN; KLESOV, OLEKSANDR
To: FREEPORT MINERALS CORPORATION
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