Dr Baiden worked with IBM to establish a high bandwidth radio broadband network in 1990. This system was installed at Copper Cliff North Mine from the surface headframe throughout the shaft (4000 feet) and out onto several levels (3000, 3200, 3400 and 3600) in the mine. The total coverage was over 10 miles. The test of the system were voice communication using a connected phone and a wireless (before cell phones), data systems and fixed and mobile video.
The true test of the system was the teleoperation of a 36 ton LHD (front end loader) on 3400 level from a surface control room. This video shows the syncronization of fore and aft video with near-zero latency machine hydraulic control via the onboard computer and the speciality "T" antennas tuned to the correct radio frequency.
This video started the work on underground mine networking as laid out in Dr. Baiden's McGill University Ph.D. thesis granted in 1993.

Inertial positioning of underground mining equipment was investigated as part of Dr. Baiden's Ph.D. thesis. This area of study was important for mine automation as Global Positioning Systems did not work underground due to the rock blocking the radio signals from satelites.
The trial captured in this video was critically important to machine guidance, machine location and machine setup. The most important feature was the spherical accuracy of the information in the mine.

The Automatic Haulage Truck System was developed between 1986 and 1993 by Inco Limited. The System consisted of a 70 Ton haulage vehicle with an autonomous guidance system, a teleoperated loadout and an automatic dump. The truck system was developed at the old Murray Mine Hoist Room and implemented at the Little Stobie Mine.
The system was capable of having one operator run many trucks from the command centre. This system lowered the cost per ton moved while improving system safety.

Dr. Baiden conceived of a new style of radio frequency network to support the operation of voice, data and video as part of his Ph.D. thesis. This system had to be capable of operating phones (wired and wireless), data systems and fixed and mobile video systems that could support mining robot machine operation.
The first system was installed at Copper Cliff North Mine in 1990.

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Following the initial machine guidance testing the INS unit was mounted on a mobile machine connected to LIDAR scanners, velocity sensors and the main computer. This unit could rapidly survey an entire mine in a fraction of the time with a level of detail not yet achieved today.
The results of the survey with be posted in a next video Mobile Surveyor 2.

The Mobile Surveyor show in Mobile Surveyor 1 video generated the results shown in this video. It is important to note that this is a mobile survey that has each scanned point geospacially positioned. The video shows the path travelled and the results of the information gathered.

This video combines Mobile Surveyor 1 and 2 with some additional footage

Operating from the Command Centre located 25 km for the Stobie Mine site the driller is running 3 machine simultaneously with embedded machine automation. All the DataSolo drills were outfitted with cameras, computers, INS positioning and underground wireless networking. The Command Console allowed the operator to switch from machine to machine. These drills achieved 95% of the total drilling in the mine.
Before these units were introduced 5 drilling machines with 25 operators and 5 maintenance personnel were required to run the system. After the introduction of the technology only 3 machines were required with 5 operators and 3 maintenance people. This shows the impact of better use of the machine and operator time through teleoperation and automation.

This video shows the capability of the RF network to run multiple teleoperated mining robots. In the video there are telecommand consoles for exploration (diamond) drills, tunneling (Jumbo) drill, LHDs, ground support (shotcreting) and is a next video surface wireless blasting. This video demonstrated the successful culmination of the MAP pilot robotic mine.

This video shows single operator multiple LHD accomplishments.

This video tested the concept of using networked detonators in the Pilot Mine