Teleoperated control system for underground room and pillar mining

Patent · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:868528

Mayercheck, William D ^[1]; Kwitowski, August J ^[2]; Brautigam, Albert L ^[3]; Mueller, Brian K ^[3]

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1. New Stanton, PA
2. Clairton, PA
3. 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 (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV (United States)
• 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

Related Subjects

teleoperated
control
underground
pillar
mining
provided
remotely
controlling
various
machines
involved
seam
continuous
miner
located
camera
mounted
thereon
slave
computer
plurality
sensors
relaying
information
controlled
ventilation
sub-system
removes
combustible
material
haulage
mined
collection
site
base
station
controls
supply
power
water
systems
cable
handling
module
winding
unwinding
cables
hoses
connected
operator
hydraulic
air
compressor
supplying
host
housed
via
wire
communications
line
mounted thereon
continuous miner
base station
computer controlled
combustible material
computer control
control module
operator control
host computer
air compressor
various machines
remotely control
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