Mining Disasters In Mining

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Mining accidents have occurred since the early days of mining.

There were a total of 525 mining disasters (incidents with five or

more fatalities) in both coal and metal/nonmetal mines. Most of

these disasters involve mine rescue teams, which are specially

trained to perform search and rescue operations in extremely

hostile environments. Robots have a great potential to assist in

these underground operations, searching ahead of rescue teams and

reporting conditions that may be hazardous to the teams.

Introduction Here we are designing the prototype module for

Mobile robot in mine to rescue and recovery on ARM7TDMI-S

Platform. Here we have two modules, Robot module and 2 Base

station modules. Robot module includes the sensors, wireless

camera and Zigbee transceiver which are mounted on the LPC2148

board. We are sending the status of the mine through Zigbee

protocol to Base station module.

Problem statement:

Coal mine is a special type of mine which is dangerous in nature.

Such mines will usually be an underground system which has less

number of pit heads. In case of any accident as given in Table 1, it

will be difficult for people to escape out of the mine. The

dangerous factors that an accident will bring along are collapse of

tunnel,gas explosion, undesired level of O2, CO and CO2, high

temperature, fire break out, etc. All

these factors can cause human and property loss. These fatal

factors menace people.

After a Coal mine disaster, the situation inside the mine is not

known. Entering into a mine without knowing the exact situation is

dangerous as the chances of a second explosion is high. Many

rescuers are killed by this second explosion. Detection of the

situation ins...

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CONCLUSION

The project is aimed at providing human safety for the rescue team

in hazardous environments such as coal mines .This is a prototype

which can be implemented in real time by using components with

better range and efficiency. This robot enters into hazardous

environments and provides data like the content of various gases

after the explosion has occurred and also the temperature based on

which the rescue team will be sent with necessary precautionary

measures in order to make sure that the rescue team does not come

to any harm. The conveyor belt enables the robot to run in rugged

environment overcoming the disadvantage of armed robots as they

might trip and fall in such conditions

Future implements

 Bomb detection and diffusion

 It can be used in Terrorist attacks situation

 Security combat module

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