Coal Mine Rescue Robot Simulation Using V-Rep and Python

摘要

Coal mines are very dangerous working places for human beings let it be the workers or rescue team personnel. It is very urgent but risky also to enter the mine tunnels in case of disaster for the rescue team personnel due to lack of information about the environmental conditions of the disaster sites and a large number of rescue operations have resulted in numerous fatalities in coal mines. Rescue robots can be designed to navigate the rescue personnel around the disaster site and at the same time monitor/update the environmental data on real-time basis to command center. This paper introduces a coal mine surveillance robot, which is designed in such a way that it can navigate around the mine/sites and keep updating the information to the command center/rescue team using the sensors deployed on the robot on real-time basis. Smoke detection along with gas detection is done with high precision and can activate alarm after breaching safe/preset level.