Teleoperated control system for underground room and pillar mining
Patent
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OSTI ID:868528
- New Stanton, PA
- Clairton, PA
- Pittsburgh, PA
A teleoperated mining system is provided for remotely controlling the various machines involved with thin seam mining. A thin seam continuous miner located at a mining face includes a camera mounted thereon and a slave computer for controlling the miner and the camera. A plurality of sensors for relaying information about the miner and the face to the slave computer. A slave computer controlled ventilation sub-system which removes combustible material from the mining face. A haulage sub-system removes material mined by the continuous miner from the mining face to a collection site and is also controlled by the slave computer. A base station, which controls the supply of power and water to the continuous miner, haulage system, and ventilation systems, includes cable/hose handling module for winding or unwinding cables/hoses connected to the miner, an operator control module, and a hydraulic power and air compressor module for supplying air to the miner. An operator controlled host computer housed in the operator control module is connected to the slave computer via a two wire communications line.
- Research Organization:
- National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV
- Assignee:
- United States of America, as represented by Secretary of (Washington, DC)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 5161857
- OSTI ID:
- 868528
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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· IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)
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computer controlled
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continuous
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controls
handling
haulage
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information
involved
line
located
machines
material
mined
miner
mining
module
mounted
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plurality
power
provided
relaying
remotely
remotely control
removes
seam
sensors
site
slave
station
sub-system
supply
supplying
systems
teleoperated
thereon
underground
unwinding
various
various machines
ventilation
via
water
winding
wire