VRLane: a desktop virtual safety management program for underground coal mine

Mei Li; Jingzhu Chen; Wei Xiong; Pengpeng Zhang; Daozheng Wu

doi:10.1117/12.812622

3 November 2008 VRLane: a desktop virtual safety management program for underground coal mine

Mei Li, Jingzhu Chen, Wei Xiong, Pengpeng Zhang, Daozheng Wu

Proceedings Volume 7143, Geoinformatics 2008 and Joint Conference on GIS and Built Environment: Geo-Simulation and Virtual GIS Environments; 71432J (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.812622
Event: Geoinformatics 2008 and Joint Conference on GIS and Built Environment: Geo-Simulation and Virtual GIS Environments, 2008, Guangzhou, China

Abstract

VR technologies, which generate immersive, interactive, and three-dimensional (3D) environments, are seldom applied to coal mine safety work management. In this paper, a new method that combined the VR technologies with underground mine safety management system was explored. A desktop virtual safety management program for underground coal mine, called VRLane, was developed. The paper mainly concerned about the current research advance in VR, system design, key techniques and system application. Two important techniques were introduced in the paper. Firstly, an algorithm was designed and implemented, with which the 3D laneway models and equipment models can be built on the basis of the latest mine 2D drawings automatically, whereas common VR programs established 3D environment by using 3DS Max or the other 3D modeling software packages with which laneway models were built manually and laboriously. Secondly, VRLane realized system integration with underground industrial automation. VRLane not only described a realistic 3D laneway environment, but also described the status of the coal mining, with functions of displaying the run states and related parameters of equipment, per-alarming the abnormal mining events, and animating mine cars, mine workers, or long-wall shearers. The system, with advantages of cheap, dynamic, easy to maintenance, provided a useful tool for safety production management in coal mine.

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Mei Li, Jingzhu Chen, Wei Xiong, Pengpeng Zhang, and Daozheng Wu "VRLane: a desktop virtual safety management program for underground coal mine", Proc. SPIE 7143, Geoinformatics 2008 and Joint Conference on GIS and Built Environment: Geo-Simulation and Virtual GIS Environments, 71432J (3 November 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.812622

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