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Conceptual Integrated System Design Focused on a Miner Safety System FOR DOL/MSHA/NIOSH/NAS

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. Proposed Pilot Project for

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Conceptual Integrated System Design Focused on a Miner Safety System FOR DOL/MSHA/NIOSH/NAS

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  1. 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 ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  2. Proposed Pilot Project for Integrated Technologies (PPFIT) ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  3. PPFIT Missions “Everyone Goes Home” Reduce Line of Duty Deaths (LODD) Utilize State of The Art (SOA) Integrated Technologies ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  4. Announcing! The Elements of PPFIT ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  5. Proposed Intellectual Capitalfor 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 ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  6. PPFIT Team Marching Orders Fix It ! ************** ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  7. Potential Funding SourcesFor 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 ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  8. 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 ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  9. 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 ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  10. Safe Refuge Tours of various Safe Refuge sites & NASA Kennedy should be considered by: • Affected DOL/MSHA Leadership • Affected Governors • Affected Congressional & State Legislators ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  11. Extended Breathing Air Supplies For Miners & RescuersDr. Donald F. DoerrChief, Biomedical EngineeringNASA-Kennedy Space Center(KSC) Tel: 321-867-6387Email: donald.f.doerr@nasa.govDr. Hal Gier, Technical Director, STS-Longmont, CO.Tel. 970-535-0384HalG@superthermal.com ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  12. NASA-KSCCape Canaveral • Extended breathing air supplies for: • Miners • Mine Rescue personnel • NASA-KSC has 40 yrs experience with extended duration breathing air supply systems ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  13. 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. ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  14. 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 ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  15. RepresentativeExtended Breathing Air Systems • Liquid Air • Non-Liquid Cryogenic Air ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  16. LiquidAir Packs For RescuersAt 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 ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  17. Self Contained Air Mobility Pack (SCAMP) - Non-Liquid Air Packs One Hour, any attitude, cryogenic air pack. Dr. Hal Gier (SCAMP Inventor) 970-535-0384 halg@superthermal.com Two hour (at work) any attitude cryogenic air pack ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  18. 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 ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  19. Neuro Engineering Laboratory NASA Ames Research Center Sensors ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  20. Non-contact Signal Acquisition Latest EMG Sensor Design Goals Early R&D Eight-channel EEG plus EMG Sensor Recordings • 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 • Unshieldedroom • Multichannel Mini-differential Sensor QUASAR: Quantum Applied Science and Research Inc. ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  21. 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 ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  22. Subvocal versus an Audio Signal EMG Subvocal Vocal Single-channel subvocal waveform for word “Evacuate”. The time-synchronized audio waveform is also shown. ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  23. Sub Vocal Speech Applications 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 SVS Technology 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 ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  24. FLIR – Forward Looking Infrared see through smoke and other critical data displays (In development) FLIR Display unit Heads up Compass ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  25. See Through SmokeHands-Free (in development) • FLIR = Forward Looking Infrared Display ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  26. 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 ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  27. Training in SOA technologies and methodology of delivery • Provide qualified instructors in systems thinking and the adapted technologies • Take systems training to the miners ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  28. 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.…….. ASI Confidential / Proprietary

  29. 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 ASI Confidential / Proprietary

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