Coal mine fire and human escape simulation

SUN Nongliang(孙农亮), WANG Min(王敏), GU Zuoxiao(顾作晓)

(College of Information and Electrical Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China)

Abstract：Coal mine fire and human escape simulation system is developed based on 3D Max and EON software for the purpose of coal mine safety training. The models, such as miners, roadways, typical equipments, fire and smoke are all constructed in 3D Max. The roadway models derived from real data, functions of each part are determined for the roadway based on the data, and then corresponding tunnel typical equipments are added. Emergency refuge system model is not only an important system model, but also an important destination for fire simulation and human escape. The roaming of the miners through the roadways, the interactive functions between users and computer, the fire process of beginning, spreading, and destroying, the human escape interaction are simulated in EON virtual reality software after these models have been input into it. Besides, collision detection based on hierarchical bounding volumes is also utilized. Simulation results suggest that this strategy can produce realistic virtual state and fire effect. While as part of the coal mine safety simulation and training System (CMSSTS), this work is far from what we expected, and there is more intensive work that should be done.

Key words：mine fire simulation; human escape; virtual reality; EON Studio; collision detection; coal mine safety simulation and training system

CLD number： TP391.9 Document code： A

Article ID： 16748042(2012)03029806   doi： 10.3969/j.issn.16748042.2012.03.020

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