The sustainable future of open-pit trucks operation

Abstract

Open-pit truck technical operation determines mined bulk transportation effectiveness increasing equipment’s commercial operation duration based on a robust strategy of vehicle’s maintenance, early and high-quality diagnostics, upkeep and recovery. Developed mathematical model of BelAZ open-pit truck operation for various levels of organization of servicing replicates a Markov process in the system of technological automotive transport considering possibilities of vehicle states with time and steady-state condition. The performance of open-pit trucks was consistently evaluated and the model of the technological automotive transport system was synthesized. The validation analysis of the obtained model showed its suitability for optimization of open-pit truck performance. The calculated optimal controlling actions on the open-pit truck allow developing an algorithm and technique for dynamic adjustment of parameters of maintenance, diagnostics and repair of BELAZ open-pit trucks that will become the basis for a sustainable future of industrial transport technical operation.