SE547199C2

SE547199C2 - A distributed system for optimized interaction between substance moving units and transport units .

Info

Publication number: SE547199C2
Application number: SE2130228A
Authority: SE
Inventors: Mats Nordlund
Original assignee: Ytterbia Innovation Ab
Priority date: 2015-09-01
Filing date: 2015-09-01
Publication date: 2025-05-27
Also published as: SE2130228A1

Abstract

The present invention relates to a distributed system for optimal utilization of transport units and substance moving units within a geographical area, the system comprising at least one substance moving unit and two or more substance transport units.

Claims

1. A dis tributed system for determining an optimized utilization of transport units (11) and substance moving units (1, 2) within a geographical area comprising at least one substance moving unit (1, 2) and two or more substance transport units (11), the substance moving unit (1, 2) comprising a bucket (3) attached to a boom (4) for moving substance, one or more sensors (9, 22) for determining a load in the bucket (3), one or more sensors (9, 22) for determining a movements of the bucket (3), a processor (18) for determining a substance moving rate based on the load and the movement of the bucket (3) received from the sensors (9,22), and for participating in an optimization calculation, a computer readable memory (19) at least storing the substance moving rate and for storing an optimization result, a geographic position sensor or navigation system (21) for determining a location of the substance moving unit (1, 2), a communication unit (17) communicating the substance moving rate, and the optimization result and a transport needs message with other substance moving (1, 2) and transport units (11), and a human machine interface (20) for presenting and receiving information to/from a human operator, the transport unit (11) comprising

2. A dis a navigation system (21) comprising data about location, speed and route of the transport unit (11), a substance volume or weight sensor (9,22) indicating current volume or weight of substance in a dump bed (10), a processor (18) for calculating substance mass or volume data, based on the volume or weight of substance received from the sensors (9,22), and for participating in the optimization calculation, a computer readable memory (19) at least storing the substance mass or volume data and for storing an optimization result, a communication unit (17) for communicating at least location, speed, route and the substance mass or volume of the transport unit (11) to the substance moving unit (1, 2) and second transport unit (11), and for receiving the transport need message from the substance moving unit (1, 2) and for receiving location, speed, current volume of substance and load capacity parameters data from the second transport unit (11), a human machine interface (21) for presenting and receiving information to/from a human operator, tributed system according to claim 1 wherein the substance comprises at least one of the following substances, earth and/or snow and/or dirt and/or sand and/or stone and/or mineral.

3. A dis tributed system according to claim 1-2 wherein the distributed system further comprises a surveillance/monitoring terminal (12) connectable to the communications network and able to communicate with all substance transport (11) and substance moving units (, 2) to influence the optimization algorithm to follow the instructions of an authorized person.

4. A method for optimized utilization of transport units (11) and substance moving units (1, 2) in a distributed system, within a geographical area, the method comprising the steps of: determining and transmitting a position and substance moving rate of a first substance moving unit (1, 2) to a second substance moving unit (1, 2) and a first and second substance transport unit (11), determining and transmitting a location, speed and route of the first transport unit (11) to the second transport unit (11) and the first and second substance moving unit (1, 2), receiving and storing the transmitted information in the substance moving (1,2) and transporting unit (11), using a multi agent negotiation optimization algorithm prescribing a protocol for negotiations between participating units (1, 2, 11) to determine optimal substance moving rates for the substance moving units (1, 2) and optimal route and speed for the transport units (11), transmitting the established optimal substance moving rates and optimal routes and speeds to the substance moving (1, 2) and transport units (11), receiving, storing, and displaying the optimal substance moving rate and the optimal route and speed via a visual or an audio interface to an operator of the first and second substance moving unit (1, 2) or the first and second transport unit (11).

5. The method according to claim 4 further comprising the step of exchanging the data transmitted in the distributed system to a project planning and managing function terminal (12).

6. The method according to claim 4-5 further comprising the step of calculating a need for additional or less substance moving units (1, 2) or transport units (11) and providing this new need to a project planning and managing function (12).

7. A central server (6) connected to the distributed system in claims 1-3 for storing all data collected and transmitted between the substance moving units (1, 2) and transport units (11) as they follow the methods described in claims 4-6, for future use by data- mining algorithms or machine learning algorithms.

8. A substance moving unit (1, 2) comprising a bucket (3) attached to a boom (4) for moving substance, one or more sensors (9, 22) for determining a load in the bucket (3), one or more sensors (9,22) for determining a movements of the bucket (3), a processor (18) for determining a substance moving rate, based on the load and the movement of the bucket (3) received from the sensors (9,22), a geographic position sensor or navigation system (21) for determining a location of the substance moving unit (1, 2), and a human machine interface (21) for presenting and receiving information to/from a human operator, a communication unit (17) communicating in real time at least the location of the substance moving unit (1, 2) and the substance moving rate to a central server (6) or a transport unit (11), so that the substance moving unit (1, 2) and the transport unit (11) can be synchronized.

9. A transport unit (11) comprising a navigation system (21) comprising data about location, speed and route of the transport unit (11), a substance volume or weight sensor (9,22) indicating current volume or weight of substance in a dump bed (10), a computer readable memory (19) for storing data, a processor (18) for calculating substance mass or volume data, based on the volume or weight of substance received from the sensors (9,22), and for calculating a substance transport rate, a human machine interface (21) for presenting and receiving information to/from a human operator, a communication unit (17) for communicating at least location, speed, route and the substance mass or volume data or substance transport rate with a central server (6) or a substance moving unit (1, 2) or a second transport unit (11), so that the transport unit (11), the substance moving unit (1, 2) and the second transport unit (11) can be synchronized.