Mining Explorer Robot

In this article, the direction of study is related to issues specific to the systems of explorer robots for mining. The use of mining explorer robots allows you to ensure the safety of work in hard-to-reach places, monitor the condition of active and inactive mines, find in inactive mines new minerals, the processing of which was previously not possible, and much more. The paper includes a discussion of the issues of ensuring the versatility of the design, the need to reduce the size and weight of the robot, reduce the cost at high performance, achieve the required level of protection against environmental influences in mines, compatibility with control systems, and others. Various methods of robot navigation in confined spaces are analyzed. The results of tests of a prototype of the explorer robot are presented. When finding ways to implement a robot, the emphasis is on an effective combination of equipment and software.