∗MINES ParisTech, Centre Automatique et Systèmes, Unité Mathématiques et Systèmes, 60 Bd St-Michel, 75272 Paris, Cedex 06, France (e-mail : [email protected]) ∗∗ IFP Energies Nouvelles, Département Contrôle, Signal et Système, 1 et 4 avenue du Bois-Préau, 92852 Rueil-Malmaison, France ∗∗∗MINES ParisTech, Centre Automatique et Systèmes, Unité Mathématiques et Systèmes, 60...

Near Field Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling on an Industrial Site Using Neural Networks Pierre Lauret, Frédéric Heymes, Laurent Aprin, Anne Johannet, Gilles Dusserre, Laurent Munier, Emmanuel Lapébie Institute of Risk Science (ISR), Ecole des Mines d’Alès, Alès, France Centre des Matériaux de Grande Diffusion (CMGD), Ecole des Mines d’Alès, Alès, France CEA, DAM, GRAMAT, F-46500 Gramat, France *...

An important area of expertise robots can provide is design of artefacts in physical environments where humans have no access. A design robot interacts with its environment, learn models of the environment and reorganise the environment such that it delivers a new functionality. An example design robot can design a new drilling rig for its needs in mines, or design a bridge on the surface of Ma...

1 Department of Construction and Manufacture Engineering, Polytechnic School of Mieres, University of Oviedo, Mieres, 33600 Asturias, Spain 2Department of Exploitation and Prospecting Mines, Mining Engineering School, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, 33004 Asturias, Spain 3 Department of Exploitation Mines, Polytechnic University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain 4Department of Exploitation and Prosp...

abandoned surface mine excavations can be a major environmental, social and/or human healthproblem for the mining industry as well as for the community living nearby. this problem is exacerbated by therapidly growing population encroaching on areas of historic mined lands. the aim of this studywas to assess thesafety status of the historic nyala mine excavation with the purpose of coming up wit...

Today, most research institutes dealing with landmine detection as a topic and even within many mine action communities there is a stereotype landmine image, where the only challenge is considered to be the detection of the small lowor nonmetallic anti-personnel blast mine. Indeed, this plastic cased pressure operated mine is difficult to detect. However, to the well protected deminer adhering ...

Duggan, M. J., Soilleux, P. J., Strong, J. C., and Howell, D. M. (1970). Brit. J. industr. Med., 27, 106-109. The exposure of United Kingdom miners to radon. Airborne radon has been recognized as a probable cause of lung cancer since the epidemiological studies made in the mining communities of Schneeberg and Jachymov during the 1920s and 1930s. Uranium miners are generally exposed to high conc...

Area Denial concepts, as applied to the next generation of scatterable mines (NGSM), are oriented to the philosophy of greatly reducing the cost and logistics burden of the current family of scatterable mines (FASCAM) while maintaining or improving their effectiveness. By extending the sensing radius of the mines and employing some level of warhead mobility, each mine can protect a larger surro...