Application of STPA-Sec for analyzing cybersecurity of autonomous mining systems

Autonomy is seen as the next big thing in the mining industry. For mine operators there are benefits to be gained in terms of higher productivity, inherent safety, lower operational expense, and improved asset management, just to name a few. Original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and dealerships also benefit by gaining the ability to better manage machine lifecycles, adding additional revenue streams from auxiliary products and services like mine operating system (MOS), training, and contracts to run mine autonomy and automation as a service. For this work, we have selected the autonomous haul truck used in the surface mining operation as the subject. We were motivated primarily by existing OEM efforts on introducing autonomy in the industry through hauling. Various stages of hauling process including the interaction with manually operated MOS and shovel were studied.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering and Management Program

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Sidhu, Amardeep Singh.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Stuart Madnick and Allen Moulton.

• Engineering and Management Program.
• System Design and Management Program.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121800

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/121800