Underground mining intelligent response and rescue systems

Underground Mining Transportation Systems

Intelligent Scheduling for Underground Mobile Mining Equipment

Many studies have been carried out and many commercial software applications have been developed to improve the performances of surface mining operations, especially for the loader-trucks cycle of surface mining. However, there have been quite few studies aiming to improve the mining process of underground mines. In underground mines, mobile mining equipment is mostly scheduled instinctively, w...

RoboCup Rescue: A Grand Challenge for Multiagent and Intelligent Systems

issues that involves very large numbers of heterogeneous agents in the hostile environment. The intention of the RoboCup Rescue project is to promote research and development in this socially significant domain at various levels, involving multiagent teamwork coordination, physical agents for search and rescue, information infrastructures, personal digital assistants, a standard simulator and d...

A Review of Mine Rescue Ensembles for Underground Coal Mining in the United States.

The mining industry is among the top ten industries nationwide with high occupational injury and fatality rates, and mine rescue response may be considered one of the most hazardous activities in mining operations. In the aftermath of an underground mine fire, explosion or water inundation, specially equipped and trained teams have been sent underground to fight fires, rescue entrapped miners, ...

Special issue: Data mining and hybrid intelligent systems

This special issue encompasses four papers devoted to the recent developments in the field of Data Mining. The issue originated from presentations at the “8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems” held at Technical University of Catalonia, in Barcelona (Spain), September 10–12th, 2008. Seven selected papers were submitted to the special issue, every paper was revised by at lea...