An Unsupervised Intelligent Method for Cutting Pick State Recognition of Coal Mining Shearer

• Main Authors: Kun Zhang, Lingyu Meng, Yuhao Qi, Hongyue Chen, Jinpeng Su, Qiang Zhang, Zengkai Liu, Zhenduo Song
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Shearer pick; sparse filtering; softmax regression; state recognition
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9235516/

This paper proposes an intelligent recognition method for shearer cutting state based on deep learning theory, to solve the problems where the picks are prone to various failure forms during the cutting of coal and rock masses by the shearer. The failure will lead to the decline on the stability of the entire machine of the shearer and affect the safety production. Specially, a 1:1 simulation bench is used for simulating underground mining conditions to measure and collect the cutting loads of picks and establish a sample database. Deep learning-based intelligent recognition method is an effective tool that can break away from the dependency of prior knowledge and recognition experience, and sparse. In this paper, a promising deep learning method called sparse filtering is proposed for intelligent recognition of shearer cutting. So sparse filtering is applied to construct an automatic feature extraction model, and softmax regression is adopted as a classifier for cutting pick state recognition. Furthermore, L_1/2 regularization term is added to the cost function of sparse filtering to prevent the problem of excessive model training and weights. The proposed method for identifying the cutting status of the shearer can effectively monitor the cutting status of the picker, thereby improving the safety and stability of the cutting of the shearer and promote the coal mining efficiency.