Original scientific paper With the increase in mining depths and the occurrence of worsening conditions, deep, large-scale and rapid mining may lead to more complicated dynamic features for tunnels, making them vulnerable to dynamic disasters such as rock bursts and coal/gas outbursts with subsequent heavy damage and casualties. A three-dimensional structural mechanics model for deep stopes was...

The purpose of this study is automated handling of massive rocks for moving them to a proper place and for breaking them down at a rock quarry. This paper reports our first approach in laboratory environment using a robotic manipulator with a small sized laser range finder(LRF) to handle a relatively small object. For tumbling operation, we apply image processing techniques onto range images cr...

With the increasing requirements for energy, resources and space, numerous rock engineering projects (e [...]