Modeling Mine Virtual Environment Based on Multi-agent

Most existing researches on Coalmine Virtual Environment (CMVE) are mainly concentrated on the geometric presentation or real-time dynamics to create immersive experiences in virtual environment and little attention has been paid on system modeling methodology and formal specification of CMVE. Based on Multi-agent technology, a hierarchical architecture for CMVE was proposed, which consists of ¿Hardware, network and operating system layer¿, ¿geometric and physical layer¿, ¿Multi-agent layer¿, and ¿man-machine interface layer¿. The Multi-agent based CMVE framework has good reusability, reconfigurability, scalability, intelligence and interactivity, and provides with a methodology to construct CMVE system. To make multi-agent based CMVE more precise, the related concepts and agent properties also were formally defined. Finally, an application case was introduced, which shows the robustness of our methodology and the capability to create effective virtual environment for behavior simulation of underground safety.