公开(公告)号：US20230203891A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-29

申请号：US17926841

申请日：2020-05-29

Applicant: TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES PTY LIMITED

Inventor： Chris Innes ,  Benjamin Jones ,  Steven Cook ,  Joshua Leeman

IPC: E21B7/02 ,  E21B41/00 ,  E21C41/26 ,  E21B44/00 ,  E21C47/10

CPC classification number: E21B7/022 ,  E21B41/0021 ,  E21C41/26 ,  E21B44/005 ,  E21C47/10

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a control method and system. The system includes: a deactivation control; a control centre controller for storing an association between the deactivation control and a selected set of mine sites; a plurality of autonomous drill rigs, each drill rig having a drill shutdown module to disable a function of the respective drill rig upon receipt of a deactivation command; and a mine site controller associated with each mine site, each mine site controller being coupled to all autonomous drill rigs located at the respective mine site with which the mine site controller is associated. Activating the deactivation control transmits a deactivation command from the deactivation control to the control centre controller. The control centre controller forwards the deactivation command to a mine site controller associated with each mine site in the set of mine sites for distribution to all autonomous drill rigs at that mine site.