Report of Investigations 9364: Utilizing Mechanical Linear Transducers for the Determination of a Mining Machine's Position and Heading

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• Journal Article:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9364
• Personal Author:
  Jobes, Christopher C.
• Description:
  Computer-aided control of a mining machine requires a guidance system to aid remote positioning of the machine by determining its position and heading. The mechanical position and heading system (mphs) developed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines provides such navigation information during face maneuvers. This report describes the required theory, which yielded a reliable algorithm for calculating machine position and heading, and implementation of this theory in hardware and software design, which made surface testing of the mphs possible. Analysis of the errors and test results showed that the mphs provides reliable results and can, therefore, provide useful guidance information for face navigation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Dust Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Blast-resistant-structures; Underground-explosions; Solar-panels; Coal-dust; Dust-explosions; Mine-gases; Barriers; Coal-mines; Explosion-proofing; Safety-engineering
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9364, 1991 Jan; :1-19
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications   ; Mining Publications  
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Publisher:
  U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  25 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10009154
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91-230250
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1991
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d295ac9acafb9f6d4b6a4053669d5cdeec0486da63380dcf461bd9f2dad436dd826e21135262cbefcfe682492c4f1d8afa341b2e58b4431139e0759b881fb858
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10276/cdc_10276_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.51 MB ]