Transporter vehicle management system and transporter vehicle management method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11727508-B2
Application number	US-201616328034-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 14, 2016
Priority date	Dec 14, 2016
Publication date	Aug 15, 2023
Grant date	Aug 15, 2023

Abstract

A transporter vehicle management system includes: a loading weight data acquisition unit that acquires loading weight data indicating a loading weight of a load on a transporter vehicle; a vehicle speed data acquisition unit that acquires vehicle speed data indicating a traveling speed of the transporter vehicle; a road surface data acquisition unit that acquires road surface data indicating a condition of a road surface on which the transporter vehicle travels; a current damage amount calculation unit that calculates a current damage amount of the transporter vehicle on the basis of the loading weight, the traveling speed, and the condition of the road surface; a target amount calculation unit that calculates a target loading weight or a target traveling speed in which the current damage amount is set to a predetermined value; and an output unit that outputs the target loading weight or the target traveling speed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A transporter vehicle management system comprising:
a transporter vehicle;
a loading weight data acquisition unit that acquires loading weight data indicating a loading weight of a load on the transporter vehicle;
a vehicle speed data acquisition unit that acquires vehicle speed data indicating a traveling speed of the transporter vehicle;
a road surface data acquisition unit that acquires road surface data indicating a condition of a road surface on which the transporter vehicle travels;
an inertial measurement unit that calculates transporter vehicle acceleration in a rotation direction around each of three axes which are perpendicular to each other;
a current damage amount calculation unit that estimates a current damage amount of a body frame of the transporter vehicle on the basis of: a result of measurement by the inertial measurement unit which is disposed on the body frame of the transporter vehicle;
a target amount calculation unit that calculates a target loading weight or a target traveling speed in which the current damage amount is set to a predetermined value;
an output unit that outputs the target loading weight or the target traveling speed;
a fuel consumption data acquisition unit that acquires fuel consumption data indicating a fuel consumption of the transporter vehicle when the transporter vehicle travels with the target loading weight and at the target traveling speed;
a time data acquisition unit that acquires time data indicating time required for the transporter vehicle to travel through a predetermined course in a mine with the target loading weight and at the target traveling speed, with one trip through the predetermined course being a cycle and the time for the one trip being a cycle time;
a tire data acquisition unit that indicates a life of a tire of the transporter vehicle; and
a production cost calculation unit that calculates a production cost of the mine on the basis of the target loading weight, the target traveling speed, the fuel consumption, and the time according to formula (1):
[production cost ($/ton)]=[fuel consumption+tire life]/[loading weight/cycle time]  (1),

wherein the output unit outputs the production cost.

2. The transporter vehicle management system according to claim 1 , wherein the target amount calculation unit calculates the target loading weight or the target traveling speed in which the current damage amount is set to be equal to or less than a threshold as the predetermined value.

3. The transporter vehicle management system according to claim 1 , wherein the target amount calculation unit calculates a target road surface condition.

4. The transporter vehicle management system according to claim 1 , comprising a storage unit that stores correlation data indicating a relationship between the loading weight, the traveling speed, the condition of the road surface, and the damage amount of the body frame of the transporter vehicle, wherein
the target amount calculation unit calculates the target loading weight or the target traveling speed on the basis of the correlation data.

5. The transporter vehicle management system according to claim 4 , wherein correlation data is generated on a basis of a detection value of a stress gauge when the dump truck travels on road surfaces having various road surface conditions at various traveling speeds with the stress gauge attached to the body frame of the dump truck.

6. The transporter vehicle management system according to claim 1 , wherein the target amount calculation unit calculates the target loading weight or the target traveling speed in which the production cost calculated by the production cost calculation unit is minimized.

7. The transporter vehicle management system according to claim 1 , wherein the damage amount is an index indicating a fatigue cumulative frequency acting on the body frame and a function of a stress acting on the body frame per unit time.

8. The transporter vehicle management system according to claim 1 , wherein the damage amount is a numerical value indicating how many times an equivalent stress acting on the body frame in any cycle is relative to a reference value 1.0 when an equivalent stress acting on the body frame in a reference cycle is defined as the reference value 1.0.

9. The transporter vehicle management system according to claim 8 , wherein the reference cycle is determined by acquiring data of a distance, a gradient, the traveling speed, and a roughness of the road surface in a carrying path from a loading site to a soil discharging site for a plurality of mines; obtaining a mean of the acquired data; causing the dump truck to travel on a carrying path simulating the obtained mean, which is the reference cycle, and the equivalent stress acting on the body frame is obtained.

10. A transporter vehicle management method comprising:
providing a transporter vehicle;
acquiring loading weight data indicating a loading weight of a load on the transporter vehicle;
acquiring vehicle speed data indicating a traveling speed of the transporter vehicle;
acquiring road surface data indicating a condition of a road surface on which the transporter vehicle travels;
calculating transporter vehicle acceleration in a rotation direction around each of three axes which are perpendicular to each other;
estimating a current damage amount of a body frame of the transporter vehicle on the basis of a result of measurement by an inertial measurement unit which is disposed on the body frame of the transporter vehicle; and
calculating a target loading weight or a target traveling speed in which the current damage amount is set to a predetermined value;
acquiring fuel consumption data indicating a fuel consumption of the transporter vehicle when the transporter vehicle travels with the target loading weight and at the target traveling speed;
acquiring time data indicating time required for the transporter vehicle to travel through a predetermined course in a mine with the target loading weight and at the target traveling speed, with one trip through the predetermined course being a cycle and the time for the one trip being a cycle time;
acquiring tire life data on a life of a tire of the transporter vehicle;
calculating a production cost of the mine on the basis of the target loading weight, the target traveling speed, the fuel consumption, and the time according to formula (1):
[production cost ($/ton)]=[fuel consumption+tire life]/[loading weight/cycle time]  (1), and

outputting the production cost.

11. The transporter vehicle management system according to claim 10 , wherein the damage amount is an index indicating a fatigue cumulative frequency acting on the body frame and a function of a stress acting on the body frame per unit time.

12. The transporter vehicle management system according to claim 10 , wherein the damage amount is a numerical value indicating how many times an equivalent stress acting on the body frame in any cycle is relative to a reference value 1 . 0 when an equivalent stress acting on the body frame in a reference cycle is defined as the reference value 1.0.

13. The transporter vehicle management system according to claim 12 , wherein the reference cycle is determined by acquiring data of a distance, a gradient, the traveling speed, and a roughness of the road surface in a carrying path from a loading site to a soil discharging site for a plurality of mines; obtaining a mean of the acquired data; causing the dump truck to travel on a carrying path simulating the obtained mean, which is the reference cycle, and the equivalent stress acting on the body frame is

Assignees

• Komatsu Mfg Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ono Ryota
• Jinno Tomoko

Classifications

• G06Q50/40

  Business processes related to the transportation industry (shipping G06Q10/083) · CPC title

• G06Q50/02 Primary

  Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining · CPC title

• G06Q10/06

  Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling · CPC title

• G06Q10/20

  Administration of product repair or maintenance · CPC title

• G06Q50/30

  Physics · mapped topic