Wireless Sensing and Tracking in Harsh, Low-Light Underground Mines

恶劣、弱光地下矿井中的无线传感和跟踪

• 批准号: 498895-2016
• 负责人: Fernando, Xavier
• 金额: $ 7.28万
• 依托单位: Ryerson University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=618677
• 关键词: Wireless; Sensing; Tracking; Harsh; Low

Mining plays a key role in Canadian economy. Approximately 375,000 people across Canada work in themining and mineral processing industries. Mining contributed $57 billion to Canada's Gross Domestic Product(GDP) in 2014. However, the mining sector still remains unsafe. Mining workers are exposed to five timehigher occupational hazards than those in other industrial sectors. Although catastrophic mine accidents, suchas the Benxihu colliery mine disaster that killed 1,549 people and the Courrieres disaster in France that killed1,099 people, understandably make the headlines, many smaller incidents remain unnoticed. Often, rescueoperations take long time due to the very nature of mines, as evidenced in the 2010 Chilean mine disaster when33 miners were trapped for 69 days. As a result, the recent 'MINER' act introduced several mine safetyrequirements. PBE, the world leader in mine safety equipment, is keen on providing integrated solutions forsafety, communications and monitoring for mines around the world. This project proposes to significantlyimprove communication and tracking solutions for personnel, vehicles and, explosives in mines incollaboration with PBE. In this project, a wireless sensor network will be developed to reliably collect data inrough, irregular underground tunnel environments that dynamically changes. Different types of data fromRFID, video and infrared sensors will be fused and intelligent algorithms will be developed to accurately locatemultiple targets in real time. Special algorithms will be developed to characterize underground radio channelsand to identify miners in low light using video and infrared cameras. The whole system will be designed to befault tolerant and maintain basic operations to help rescue operations in case of disasters. Besides bringingtechnical and scientific advances in fields of vital importance to Canada, the proposed project will also train anumber of highly qualified personnel in electrical engineering, telecommunications, mine safety and securityrelated areas that are crucial to Canada and the world.

采矿在加拿大经济中起着关键作用。加拿大各地约有37.5万人从事矿物和矿产加工行业的工作。 2014年，采矿公司为加拿大国内生产总值（GDP）贡献了570亿加元。但是，采矿业仍然不安全。与其他工业部门的工人相比，采矿工人的职业危害遭受了五个时期的职业危害。尽管灾难性的矿山发生事故，但Benxihu煤矿灾难造成了1,549人的灾难，而法国的库里里尔（Courrieres）灾难造成1,099人丧生，可以理解地成为头条新闻，许多较小的事件仍然没有注意。通常，由于矿山的本质，救援人员需要很长时间，这在2010年智利矿山灾难中证明了33个矿工被困69天。结果，最近的《矿工》法案引入了几种矿山安全要求。 PBE是矿山安全设备的世界领导者，他热衷于为全球矿山提供集成解决方案，通信和监视。该项目建议对人员，车辆和炸药与PBE的沟通以及炸药的沟通和跟踪解决方案。在该项目中，将开发一个无线传感器网络，以可靠地收集动态变化的不规则地下隧道环境。将融合来自RFID，视频和红外传感器的不同类型的数据，并将开发智能算法，以实时准确地实现位置目标。将开发特殊的算法来表征地下无线电通道和使用视频和红外摄像机在弱光中识别矿工。整个系统将旨在耐受性和维护基本操作，以帮助救援行动，以免发生灾难。除了在对加拿大至关重要的领域中带来技术和科学进步外，拟议的项目还将在电气工程，电信，矿山安全和与加拿大和世界至关重要的安全区域中训练高素质人员的吞咽。