Patent ID: 11940812
Assignee: SANDVIK MINING AND CONSTRUCTION OY
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  E | IPC E  G

Claim 12:
13. An apparatus for zone passage control in an underground worksite including a plurality of operation zones for autonomously operating mobile vehicle operations, the apparatus comprising at least one processor, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to:
associate a first passage control unit with a first zone and a second zone of the underground worksite, the first passage control unit separating the first zone and the second zone;
detect state parameter information of the first zone and the second zone;
merge the first zone and the second zone into a fusion zone on the basis of the state parameter information of the first zone and the second zone; and
adapt the zone passage control to allow a first autonomously operating mobile vehicle to pass the first passage control unit in the fusion zone without interrupting operation of a second autonomously operating mobile vehicle in the first zone and/or the second zone.