" In the case of a sudden change in the geology in front of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) during mechanized tunneling processes, non-appropriate investigation and process adaptation may result in non-desirable situations that can induce construction and machine defects. "

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Interesting conference paper from Germany's Ruhr and Dortmund universities over artificial intelligence and in specific, machine learning use on TBM.

Online Geological Anomaly Detection Using Machine Learning in Mechanized Tunneling

    Ba-Trung Cao        1
    Amal Saadallah     2
    Alexey Egorov       2
    Steffen Freitag       1
    Günther Meschke  1
    Katharina Morik     2

1.Institute for Structural Mechanics / Ruhr University Bochum Bochum Germany

2.Chair for Artificial Intelligence / Technical University Dortmund Dortmund Germany

http://link-springer-com-443.webvpn.fjmu.edu.cn/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-64514-4_28