Aquila's SM product line for electric cable shovels includes performance monitoring and GPS guidance systems. The DM product line for rotary blast-hole drills includes performance monitoring, control, and GPS guidance systems. Both lines are based on the AMP platform, starting with a basic system and optionally moving up to increasingly complex layers of functionality. Our development environment is built around four QNX servers. One of them holds the source code and runs automated tasks such as backups and compilation.
Sensors help the system distinguish ore grades as digging proceeds.
This lets us mount QNX partitions to our NT filesystem so that any editor can be used to modify the code. We enter compilation commands through a Phindows shell and test our graphical application in an emulator that runs in Phindows. Final integration tests are completed on a test platform with the actual hardware. We can tailor the OS to use minimal space, a clear advantage since space is limited on the AMP's solid state disk. Success Since Aquila's inception in 1992, we've installed over 35 systems in more than 20 different coal, iron, copper, and gold mines.