The article covers the issues of increasing the efficiency of tunneling&cleaning combines “Ural”, widely applied at domestic potash mines. It is pointed out that it is possible to provide rational parameters of the process of destroying potash arrays with cutting tools of the executive bodies of mining combines. This assumption is based on the assessment of the drivers load which will reduce the specific energy consumption for ore extraction and will reduce the number of small unenriched classes in breakage products. The authors substantiate rational regime parameters of the operation of the planetary-disk executive bodies in the Ural combines. A method for automatic control of the tunnel&cleaning combine “Ural” is proposed, which ensures the implementation of the process of destruction of the potash massif with rational cutting parameters on the basis of information on the drivers load.

The research is dedicated to the development of special devices (capsules) that can be used to control the mining ore behavior in the technological unit in order to increase processes efficiency. In the first part of the article, the choice of the discrete element method for gen-erating various particle trajectories in the unit (drum pelletizer) was substantiated. This part describes the specific technologies that were used to recognize the pelletizing mode. In par-ticular, conversation of paths to sensor readings is implemented using the Matlab Sensor Fusion and Tracking Toolbox. The obtained readings were processed using two neural network classifiers (DNN and LSTM). As a result, stable models for recognizing the pelletizing modes of the unit were obtained. LSTM recognition accuracy is greater than DNN. The developed approach can be used to recognize the operating modes of other technological units. In addition, data on particles trajectories can be used to improve DEM models of technological processes. Future work consists of the capsule physical implementation and testing the recognition algorithm on a real unit.

In this paper, we consider the need to create an algorithmized digital platform for the development of electric charging networks of road transport and to optimize the load on the current power grid complex. In modern conditions, this platform can become an example of a mechanism for public-private partnerships and the development of environmentally friendly transport. The purpose of the platform is to provide users with up-to-date information about the state of the electric vehicle battery, reduce the cost of creating a network charging infrastructure for electric vehicle transport, automated resource accounting for power supply companies, and other services. The use of information technologies to combine the processes of economic relations in the field of energy sales services will attract funds for infrastructure development by increasing the load factor of generating capacities and unloading power centers. In the article, the authors propose a digital platform architecture using modern technologies such as IIoT, Vehicle to Grid (V2G), Machine learning, Big Data.