Owner The University of Sydney

Inventors Nettleton, Eric; Hennessy, Ross; Durrant-Whyte, Hugh; Goktogan, Ali Haydar; Hatherly, Peter James; Ramos, Fabio Tozeto

Agent Freehills

Pub. Number AU-A-2010242544

PCT Pub. Number WO2010/124339

Priority 2009901932 01.05.09 AU

Filing date 30 April 2010

Wipo publication date 4 November 2010

G06Q 50/00 (2006.01) Systems or methods specially adapted for a specific business sector, e.g. health care, utilities, tourism or legal services

E21F 17/00 (2006.01) Methods or devices for use in mines or tunnels, not covered elsewhere

G05B 19/18 (2006.01) Programme-control systems - Numerical control (NC), i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to execute positioning, movement or co-ordinated operations by means of programme data in numerical form

G05B 19/418 (2006.01) Programme-control systems - Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control (DNC), flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), integrated manufacturing systems (IMS), computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)