MINING AUTOMATION SYSTEM OPERATION ZONE CONTROL

A method is provided including the steps of determining a set of passage control units, PCUs, enabling forming of an isolated operation zone of a mining automation system; maintaining an acknowledgement status record for the set of PCUs; determining, based on the acknowledgement status record, a PCU...

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Zusammenfassung:A method is provided including the steps of determining a set of passage control units, PCUs, enabling forming of an isolated operation zone of a mining automation system; maintaining an acknowledgement status record for the set of PCUs; determining, based on the acknowledgement status record, a PCU within the set of PCUs for completing isolation of the operation zone; selecting an acknowledgement unit located outside the operation zone to be isolated, the acknowledgement unit being associated with the PCU; and controlling, in response to receiving an acknowledgement from the selected acknowledgement unit, a state of the operation zone.