Development of a real-time muck analysis system for assistant intelligence TBM tunnelling

Intelligent tunnelling has become an important direction for the development of TBM technology recently. As a result of the interaction between rock mass and TBM cutterhead, mucks are very important for predicting rock mass conditions and evaluating rock breaking efficiency. A real-time muck analysis system for assistant intelligence TBM tunnelling is proposed in this paper. Machine vision was applied to take the muck images continuously in the...