# Presentation: 509587

## Conceptual Integrated System Design
Focused on a Miner Safety System

FOR

DOL/MSHA/NIOSH/NAS
Mine Escape Planning and Emergency Shelters
Workshop
April 18, 2006 

BY

H.C. “Bud” Meyer
President
Advanced System Integrators (ASI)
Frankfort, KY

- Focused on a Miner Safety System
- FOR
- DOL/MSHA/NIOSH/NAS
- Mine Escape Planning and Emergency Shelters
- Workshop
- April 18, 2006
- BY
- H.C. “Bud” Meyer
- President
- Advanced System Integrators (ASI)
- Frankfort, KY

## 
Proposed Pilot Project 
for 
Integrated Technologies 
(PPFIT)

**Proposed Pilot Project **
**for **
**Integrated Technologies **
**(PPFIT)**

## PPFIT Missions

- “_Everyone Goes Home_”
- Reduce Line of Duty Deaths
- (LODD)
- Utilize State of The Art (SOA)
- Integrated Technologies

**Announcing! **

**The Elements of PPFIT**

## Proposed Intellectual Capitalfor PPFIT’s LODD Reduction Effort Suggested 11- 15 Member Team Disciplines

- State Dept’s of Mining and Minerals
- Universities
- Mining Companies- Miners-Labor & Trade Associations
- Dept. of Labor-MSHA-NIOSH
- NAS
- Federal Research Laboratories & DOD/NASA
- Nobel Laureates
- Private Sector for Technology Integration/Program Management

## PPFIT Team Marching Orders

- _Fix It !_
- **************

## Potential Funding SourcesFor PPFIT team

- Homeland Security (Coal is vital)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Institute for Health (NIH)
- Economic Development (Coal is vital)
- Federal and State Grants
- State Budgets
- Private

## PPFIT’s  Integrated System Priorities

- Early Hazard Detection
- Safe Refuge
- Extended Breathing Air Supply
- Enhanced Visibility in Smoke
- Improved Communications
- Personnel Locator
- Training in SOA Equipment
- Modification of Training Delivery

## Early Hazard Detection

- New Sensors detect _minute_ changes in &  the levels of:
- Methane
- Oxygen
- Carbon Dioxide-Monoxide (Including Inside refuge Chambers)
- Dr. Laura Skubal
- 630-252-0931
- Email: lskubal@anl.gov

- Argonne National Laboratory

## Safe Refuge

- Tours of various Safe Refuge sites & NASA Kennedy should be considered by:
- Affected DOL/MSHA Leadership
- Affected Governors
- Affected Congressional & State Legislators

## Extended Breathing Air  Supplies For  Miners & RescuersDr. Donald F. DoerrChief, Biomedical EngineeringNASA-Kennedy Space Center(KSC) Tel: 321-867-6387Email: donald.f.doerr@nasa.gov Dr. Hal Gier, Technical Director, STS-Longmont, CO.Tel. 970-535-0384HalG@superthermal.com

## NASA-KSCCape Canaveral

**Extended breathing air supplies for:**
**Miners**
**Mine Rescue personnel**
**NASA-KSC has **_**40 yrs experience**_** with extended ****	****duration breathing air supply systems**

## Extended Breathing Air Supplies

- _In - mine semi portable air supply available for_
- 12 or 24 miners for 96 hours (4 days) **
- _Portable_
- STS one and two hour supplies
- SCAMP = Self Contained Air Mobility Pack
- Suggest:
- Tour NASA-KSC Cape Canaveral, FL
- **Experienced NASA/ASI/STS/UK team Design and Manufacture site specific prototype with _proven_ technology  on compressed schedule.

## 12-24  Miners  4 day Extended Breathing Air Supply

**Conceptual Design for Safe Refuge **_**Air Supply**_
- Three foot diameter sphere with 12 masks, manifold and hoses = 12 individuals  for 4 days
- Four foot diameter sphere with 24 masks manifold, and hoses = 24 individuals  for 4 days

## Representative Extended Breathing Air Systems

**Liquid Air **
**Non-Liquid**** Cryogenic Air **

## Liquid Air Packs For Rescuers At KSC

**Liquid Air Pack in use by**
**Shuttle Rescue Team**

**Liquid Air Pack**
** ****supports 1 hr vigorous exercise**
** ****up to 3 hr resting**
** ****recharge in 5 minutes**
** ****positive pressure, demand mask**
** ****pack weighs 28 lb, full**

## Self Contained Air Mobility Pack (SCAMP) - Non-Liquid Air Packs

**One Hour, **_**any attitude**_**, cryogenic air pack.**

**Two hour (at work) **_**any attitude**_** **
**cryogenic air pack**

- Dr. Hal Gier (SCAMP Inventor)
- 970-535-0384  halg@superthermal.com

## Improved Communications

**“ ****Thoughts to signals ” **
**conversion technology**
**Dr. Charles (Chuck) Jorgensen**
**NASA Ames Research Center**
**Moffett Field, CA 94035**
**650-604-6725**
**cjorgensen@mail.arc.nasa.gov**

## Neuro Engineering Laboratory

- NASA Ames Research Center

**Sensors**

## Non-contact Signal Acquisition

**Non-contact Signal Acquisition**

**2004 **
**Demonstrate non-contact technology**
**E-field sensor (normal to scalp) **
**No Shielded room **
**2005**
**Differential sensor (tangential to scalp)**
**Mini sensors (2-3X smaller, thinner, with manufactured cover)**
**2006**
**Unshielded** **room**
**Multichannel**

**Design Goals**

**Latest EMG Sensor**

**Early R&D Eight-channel EEG plus EMG Sensor Recordings**

**QUASAR: Quantum Applied Science and Research Inc.**

**Mini-differential**
**Sensor**

## Sub Vocal Speech Definition

***	******	******	***
- The use of non-audible,
- electro-myographic signals from
- the surface of the larynx and
- lingual areas of the throat
- to control devices and
- _silently_ communicate

##     Subvocal versus an Audio Signal

**Single-channel subvocal waveform for word “Evacuate”. The time-synchronized audio waveform is also shown**.

- EMG
- Subvocal

- Vocal

## Sub Vocal Speech Applications

***SVS***
***Technology***

**Augment Vocal Speech Recognition**
**High noise environments, occluded lip movement, low pressure suits, breathing gas mixtures, micro gravity**** **

**Private Communication**
**Data base query, silent control, security, military commo**

**Speech Information Enrichment**
**Emotion identification, workload, safety, fatigue**

**Medical Monitoring**
**Stress, illness, drug interactions, biometrics**

**Device control / Design Enhancement**
**Vehicle control, computer input, multi-modal interfaces**

## FLIR – Forward Looking Infrared

_**FLIR – Forward Looking Infrared**_
- _see through smoke and other critical data displays_
- _(In development)_

**FLIR **
**Display**
**unit**

**Heads up**
**Compass**

## See Through SmokeHands-Free (in development)

- FLIR = Forward Looking Infrared Display

## Personnel Locator Technologies

- DOD friendly fire avoidance				(May be classified)
- Morris Hornik
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
- The Pentagon
- 703-607-0251
- Email: morris.hornik@osd.mil
- NASA/Ames ... Breakthrough Locator Technology
- Dr. Chuck Jorgensen
- Tel: 650-604-6724
- Email: cjorgensen@mail.arc.nasa.gov

## Training in SOA technologies and methodology of delivery

**Provide qualified instructors in systems thinking and the adapted technologies**
**Take systems training **_**to the miners**_

## There  is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. 
Because the initiator has the enmity of all who 
would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain from the new one.
Machiavelli 1513

It is never easy but we MUST try, as did the Kentuckian who invented the first gas mask.........

**Because the initiator has the enmity of all who **
**would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain from the new one.**
- Machiavelli 1513
**It is never easy but we **_**MUST**_** try, as did the Kentuckian who invented the first gas mask.........**

## Thank You!

- H.C. Bud Meyer
- President
- Advanced Systems Integrators
- P.O. Box 4286
- Frankfort, KY 40604
- Office:  502-223-8548
- Cell: 502-545-0623
- Fax: 502-875-3511
- Email: whizzy1@dcr.net