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Reinforcement learning (RL) focuses on how agents take action in the environment to maximize returns, which is helpful for achieving automatic control of mining electric locomotives. In this paper, RL is applied to autonomous control of mining electric locomotives, considering unsafe conditions such as avoidance of dynamic obstacles and maintaining a safe distance from the vehicle in front. To achieve more precise control, an improved\n                    <jats:inline-formula>\n                      <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" display=\"inline\" overflow=\"scroll\">\n                        <mml:mrow>\n                          <mml:mi>\u03b5<\/mml:mi>\n                        <\/mml:mrow>\n                      <\/mml:math>\n                    <\/jats:inline-formula>\n                    -greedy (IEG) algorithm which can better balance the exploration and exploitation is further proposed. 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