When Mining Electric Locomotives Meet Reinforcement Learning
As the most important auxiliary transportation equipment in coal mines, mining electric locomotives are mostly operated manually at present. However, due to the complex and ever-changing coal mine environment, electric locomotive safety accidents occur frequently these years. A mining electric locomotive control method that can adapt to different complex mining environments is needed. Reinforcement Learning (RL) is concerned with how artificial agents ought to take actions in an environment so as to maximize reward, which can help achieve automatic control of mining electric locomotive. In this paper, we present how to apply RL to the autonomous control of mining electric locomotives. To achieve more precise control, we further propose an improved epsilon-greedy (IEG) algorithm which can better balance the exploration and exploitation. To verify the effectiveness of this method, a co-simulation platform for autonomous control of mining electric locomotives is built which can complete closed-loop simulation of the vehicles. The simulation results show that this method ensures the locomotives following the front vehicle safely and responding promptly in the event of sudden obstacles on the road when the vehicle in complex and uncertain coal mine environments.
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