Application of Pattern Recognition Techniques to Monitoring-While-Drilling on a Rotary Electric Blasthole Drill at an Open-Pit Coal Mine

This thesis investigates the application of pattern recognition techniques to rock type recognition using monitoring-while-drilling data. The research is focused on data from a large electric blasthole drill operating in an open-pit coal mine. Pre-processing and normalization techniques are applied...

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Main Author: Martin Gonzalez, Jorge Eduardo Jose
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Format: Others
Language:en
en
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/924