Mining Truck Simulator

Mining trucks are powerful rigid dump trucks specifically engineered for use in high-production mining and heavy-duty construction environments.

These high tonnage trucks are used to transport material in large quantities.

The double axle chassis is equipped with a front cab, and is pulled by large wheels. The front of the hopper can be lifted by a hydraulic mechanism, so that the loaded material can be dumped into the soil from the rear of the vehicle.

Why use the Mining trucks Simulator of LSyM?

Thanks to the mining truck simulator developed by the LSyM group the operators will obtain the skills and knowledge necessary to avoid or know how to act in a risk situations such as:

• Hits with static or moving machine objects
• Entrapment by or between objects, or by overturning of machines
• Thermal and / or electrical contact
• Fires
• Hits, bumps and collisions with or against other vehicles
• Falls to the pits

Equipment

• Real operation console.
• Cabin located on platform with 2 to 6 degrees of freedom.
• Real steering wheel.
• Steering wheel, accelerator and brake pedals for driving.
• Instructor's console with full control over the simulation.
• Digital sound effects from real environment.
• Projection system with 2 to 5 high resolution screens.

Visualization system

• High-grade 3D real graphics.
• Implementation of shaders to provide a greater point of excellence to our graphics.
• External views displaying machine parameters.
• Multiple cameras to allow the user to change the viewpoint.
• HUD (Head-Up Display) of lighting lamp.
• High-quality shadows.
• Graphical friendly user interface

Special conditions

Work in different time zones: sunrise, day, sunset, night

Weather events: wind, rain, fog, snow, etc.

Other conditions

• Realistic response to collisions based on their severity.
• Environmental conditions: smoke, dust, etc.

Main features

• Development of an immersive environment based on "Virtual Reality", techniques analogous to the real environment of a work space of a quarry.
• Dynamic terrain.
• Delayed braking system.
• Real machine start and stop sequence.
• Precision simulated vehicle transmission.
• Automatic and manual gearbox simulation.
• Simulation of all joints and hydraulic pistons of the machine.
• The main accelerations and movements that are perceived in the cabin.
• Response of the machine depending on the load.
• Injection of failures by the instructor at runtime.
• Collaborative mode, possibility of multiple users interacting with each other.
• Avatars.
• Auxiliary information window with the status and position of the machinery and the operation commands.
• Screen information for both the user and the instructor.
• Multi language.
• Fully configurable sensors.
• On-line system of report of faults or comments by the client.
• Theoretical module.

For our Mining Truck Simulator, a complete block design has been implemented, each of these blocks include a series of exercises that progressively increase its difficulty as the student overcomes them.

The user of our simulator can perform, among others, the following exercises:

• Test questions.
• Learning and recognition of driving commands.
• Simple driving and parking.
• Advanced driving with and without load.
• Materials loading exercises.
• Material unload exercises.
• Maneuvering exercises in adverse weather conditions.

Reports at the instructor's console

• Date.
• Starting and ending time.
• Time length.
• Finished exercises.
• Control handling log.
• Velocity log.
• Collision log.
• Dangerous maneuvers log.