Research Status and Development Trend of Coal Mining Robots

According to three main applications, daily production and operations, accident management and rescuing, daily detection and maintenance of key facilit ies, the research status of coal mining robots at home and abroad was summarized. Problems on energy supply, navigation, communication and reliability of coal minin g robots were analyzed. The paper provided development orientation of coal mining robots in order to provide the reference to the high efficient development and utiliza tion of coal mining robots.