An apparatus is for installing one or more bolts in a roof of a mine, potentially in an autonomous manner. A sensor captures image data of the roof of the mine. A controller automatically controls a boom associated with a bolter to install the bolts based at least partially on the image data. A system for capturing image data of a mine is also provided, which includes at least one sensor to capture current or present image data of a portion of the mine, such as the roof, and a controller for comparing the current or present image data to previously-collected, pre-existing image data, so as to determine a location in the mine based on the comparison. Related methods are also disclosed.

A collaborative erosion-control method of releasing-splitting-supporting based on coal mass pressure relief and roof pre-splitting provided by the disclosure includes the following steps: step 1, driving into a coal seam to release pressure; step 2, low roof pre-splitting during driving process; step 3, supporting of roadway surrounding rock and support reinforcement; step 4, floor destressing of the roadway; step 5, high roof pre-splitting before mining; step 6, distress sing and supporting of the advanced roadway surrounding rock during the mining process of the working face. The collaborative erosion-control method of releasing-splitting-supporting based on coal mass pressure relief and roof pre-splitting, and to carry out local pressure relief, roof pre-splitting and reinforcement support construction in the whole cycle of the coal working face in a progressive manner, so as to achieve the prevention and control of rock burst in the working face.

A collaborative erosion-control method of releasing-splitting-supporting based on coal mass pressure relief and roof pre-splitting provided by the disclosure includes the following steps: step 1, driving into a coal seam to release pressure; step 2, low roof pre-splitting during driving process; step 3, supporting of roadway surrounding rock and support reinforcement; step 4, floor destressing of the roadway; step 5, high roof pre-splitting before mining; step 6, distress sing and supporting of the advanced roadway surrounding rock during the mining process of the working face. The collaborative erosion-control method of releasing-splitting-supporting based on coal mass pressure relief and roof pre-splitting, and to carry out local pressure relief, roof pre-splitting and reinforcement support construction in the whole cycle of the coal working face in a progressive manner, so as to achieve the prevention and control of rock burst in the working face.

A drilling and bolting rig includes a carousel rotatable about a carousel axis and including a plurality of stations configured to support a plurality of consumables, one or more actuators, and a position sensor coupled to the carousel. The one or more actuators are configured to rotate the carousel about the carousel axis. The drilling and bolting rig further includes an electronic processor coupled to the one or more actuators and the position sensor. The electronic processor is configured to detect, using the position sensor, a rotational position of the carousel, and rotate, using the one or more actuators, the carousel based on the rotational position of the carousel.

The disclosure provides a six-arm tunneling and anchoring machine, including: a tunneling system; a supporting system, wherein the supporting system is connected to the tunneling system, and at least part of the supporting system is able to be movably unfolded relative to the tunneling system, and when the six-arm tunneling and anchoring machine is in a supporting state, the tunneling system is lowered to touch a ground, and the supporting system is unfolded; a support working platform, wherein the support working platform is connected to the tunneling system, and at least part of the support working platform is able to be movably unfolded relative to the tunneling system. By means of the disclosure, the problems of long time and high labor intensity caused by the repeated forward and backward movement of water, electricity and air pipelines of a jumbolter in the related art are solved.

An auxiliary transportation and support system used after rapid excavation is provided. The system includes a crushing and transportation device, a roof bolt support device and a side bolt support device. The crushing and transportation device includes a traveling mechanism, a transportation device, a receiving hopper, and a crushing device. The traveling mechanism is located at a bottom of the crushing and transportation device. A chassis is arranged above the traveling mechanism. The transportation device is mounted on the chassis along a traveling direction of the traveling mechanism. The receiving hopper and the crushing device are both arranged on the transportation device. The roof bolt support device includes a roof bolter, a middle roof bolter and a horizontally telescopic arm which is arranged at a head end of the chassis. The roof bolter is coupled to a movable stretching end of the horizontally telescopic arm.

The present disclosure relates to a technical field of coal mining, particularly to a method of no-pillar mining with gob-entry retaining adapted for fully-mechanized top coal caving in a thick coal seam, which comprises the following steps: reinforcing support on a roof and two sides of a roadway; performing roof slitting blasting to form a pre-splitting slit; erecting a temporary support device and a gangue retaining device in the roadway along the retained entry; performing no caving within a range of a preset distance at an end of the working face near the retained entry side; and removing the temporary support device in the roadway after entry forming stabilizes, and closing the goaf to complete entry retaining. The roof slitting blasting is more beneficial to collapse of strata in the goaf, so that the strata in the slit can better fill stoping space after collapse, and the roof of the retained entry forms a short arm beam structure laterally, which avoids forming a long suspended roof in the goaf, and improves the stress of surrounding rock of gob-side entry retaining; coal caving is not performed in a certain range at the end of the working face of the retained entry side, which further ensures the filling effect of the goaf on the retained entry side, effectively limits the rotary sinking of blocks of the main roof, and greatly reduces effect on the stability of the retained entry.

A mobile tunnel boring unit is disclosed, comprising a support body driven by first drive means, the first drive means including a pair of spaced apart crawler tracks in contact with the tunnel floor and related track driving means to move the tracks. A cutter head drive means is located at an operatively front end of the boring unit, to which a rotatable cutter head can be fitted and rotatingly driven, in use, the cutter head comprising a full face cutter head fitted with cutters to bore a tunnel face. The cutter head is arranged to allow cuttings to pass through the cutter head for discharge into a muck hopper and onto a first conveyor arrangement, the cutter head drive means and a rear portion of the cutter head defining aligned central apertures to accommodate the muck hopper and a front part of the first conveyor arrangement. A telescopic shield arrangement is provided to shield the boring unit.

A rig adapted for rock bolting comprising a feeding magazine is provided. The feeding magazine comprises a holding structure for bolts and is arranged in conjunction with a rock reinforcement unit. The rig further comprises a feeding device that is arranged to provide the rock reinforcement unit with bolts from the feeding magazine. The rig further comprises a loading magazine comprising a holding structure for bolts, as well as a, relative to the feeding magazine and the loading magazine, moveable picking device arranged to move bolts that are located in the loading magazine such that they are accessible to the feeding device.

An autonomous roof bolter includes a material handling system having a storage pod with a plurality of spaced, fixed holders, each receiving at least one of a plurality of roof bolts. A guidance system may automatically guide the roof bolter to a location for installing a roof bolt, such as by using a manipulator for retrieving the roof bolt from the storage pod and delivering it to a drill mast. The guidance provided by the guidance system may be distance or direction. Related methods are disclosed.