Rio Tinto ’ s Paraburdoo site
GPS provides their position . BHP Billiton is also involved in the race for automation . The company has been working with Caterpillar since 2007 to produce its own autonomous driver technology and has recently been testing Caterpillar ’ s 240-ton vehicle , marketed under the Cat MineStar trademark , at its Jimblebar iron ore mine in Western Australia . “ It has a GPS and a number of scanners on the front of the machine , and a number of sensors on the machine itself ,” said Tim Day , general manager of BHP ’ s Jimblebar mine .” In between all of those , it can sense where it ’ s going around site . To tell it where to go , we have a map of the mine site , which in effect can tell the machine which lanes it can physically go on-site .”
The benefits So far , the benefits of driverless
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