Off-Site Geological Surveying of Longwall Face Based on the Fusion of Multi-Source Monitoring Data

Mengbo Zhu (), Ruoyu Rong, Zhizhen Liu (), Xuebin Qin, Haonan Zhang and Shuaihong Kang
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Mengbo Zhu: College of Energy and Mining Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Ruoyu Rong: College of Energy and Mining Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Zhizhen Liu: College of Energy and Mining Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Xuebin Qin: College of Electrical and Control Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Haonan Zhang: College of Energy and Mining Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China
Shuaihong Kang: College of Energy and Mining Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China

Mathematics, 2025, vol. 13, issue 18, 1-19

Abstract: A high-precision coal seam model is crucial to improving the adaptability of unmanned mining technology to geological conditions. However, the accuracy of a coal seam model constructed with boreholes and geophysical data is far from the required accuracy of unmanned mining (sub-decimeter level). Therefore, it is necessary to collect geological data revealed by mining and to update the coal seam model dynamically. As a solution to this problem, this paper proposes a new method for conducting off-site geological surveying of longwall faces by integrating multi-source monitoring data. The spatial attitudes of hydraulic supports are monitored to estimate the local dip angles of longwall face. A roof line calculation model was established, which integrates the local inclination angle of the longwall face, the number of hydraulic supports, and the roof elevation of the two roadways. Meanwhile, the local coal–rock columns at the camera observation point are extracted automatically using image segmentation and a proportional relationship between the picture and the actual scene. Coal and rock walls and a support guarding plate in the longwall face image are identified accurately using the coal-rock support segmentation model trained with U-net. Then, the height of the coal (or rock) wall above the coal–rock interface is estimated automatically according to the image segmentation and the similar proportion equation of actual longwall face and longwall face image. Combined with mining height information, the local coal–rock column can be extracted. Finally, the geological surveying profile of longwall face can be obtained by integrating the estimated roof line and local coal–rock columns. The field test demonstrated the efficacy of the method. This study helps to address a long-standing limitation of insufficient geological adaptability of intelligent mining technology.

Keywords: coal seam model update; geological survey; multi-data fusion; longwall face image segmentation; intelligent coal mining (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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