System for visually identifying and positioning tearing fault of conveyer belt of mining belt conveyor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025243009-A1
Application number	US-202519026083-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 16, 2025
Priority date	Jan 26, 2024
Publication date	Jul 31, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention relates to the technical field of mining belt conveyors, and particularly to a system for visually identifying and positioning a tearing fault of a conveyer belt of a mining belt conveyor. The system includes: an industrial camera, the industrial camera being fixedly mounted above a return conveyer belt and configured to collect a crack image of a surface of the conveyer belt of the belt conveyor; a belt speed sensor, the belt speed sensor being configured to collect a moving speed of the conveyer belt in real time; an industrial computer, the industrial computer being connected to the industrial camera and the belt speed sensor, and configured to determine whether the tearing fault has occurred on the conveyer belt according to the crack image of the surface of the conveyer belt of the belt conveyor collected by the industrial camera and to collect the moving speed of the conveyer belt collected by the belt speed sensor; and an industrial frequency converter, the industrial frequency converter being controlled by a logic controller, and the industrial frequency converter controlling a roller motor to align the position of the fault of the conveyer belt to a maintenance area.

First claim

1 . A system for visually identifying and positioning a tearing fault of a conveyer belt of a mining belt conveyor, comprising:
an industrial camera, the industrial camera being fixedly mounted above a return conveyer belt and configured to collect a crack image of a surface of the conveyer belt of the belt conveyor; a belt speed sensor, the belt speed sensor being configured to collect a moving speed of the conveyer belt in real time; an industrial computer, the industrial computer being connected to the industrial camera and the belt speed sensor, and configured to determine whether the tearing fault has occurred on the conveyer belt according to the crack image of the surface of the conveyer belt of the belt conveyor collected by the industrial camera and to collect the moving speed of the conveyer belt collected by the belt speed sensor; and an industrial frequency converter, the industrial frequency converter being controlled by a logic controller, and the industrial frequency converter controlling a roller motor to align the position of the fault of the conveyer belt to a maintenance area.

2 . The system for visually identifying and positioning a tearing fault of a conveyer belt of a mining belt conveyor according to claim 1 , wherein the step of determining whether the tearing fault has occurred on the conveyer belt by the industrial computer comprises:
acquiring a split image of the crack of the conveyer belt through a PCNN; extracting an ROI through a contour function in opencv; counting pixel points in the ROI to calculate the area of the crack; and determining tearing if the area of the crack exceeds a threshold.

3 . The system for visually identifying and positioning a tearing fault of a conveyer belt of a mining belt conveyor according to claim 1 , wherein the position of the fault of the conveyer belt is aligned to the maintenance area by the following method:
S1: pasting a calibrated image below the conveyer belt, and making two marker lines M and N in the calibrated image, a distance therebetween being L′; S2: adjusting an angle and a focal distance of the industrial camera to enable an edge of the image to just coincide with the marker lines M and N, and keeping the position of the industrial camera unchanged; S3: photographing a test image, and calculating a transverse pixel point value of the image, denoted as L″; S4: calculating a proportional scale φ,

φ
=

L
′

L
″

;

S5: calculating an actual distance from a geometric center of the crack of the conveyer belt to the marker lines according to the proportional scale φ:

S
2
′

=

S
2

·

L
′

L
″

,

S2 representing a pixel distance from the geometric center of the crack of the conveyer belt to the edge of the image;
S6: calculating a shutdown distance

L
=

L
1

cos
⁢
θ

+

L
2

+

S
2
′

,

wherein θ being an included angle between the conveyer and a horizontal direction; and
S7: calculating a shutdown time according to the shutdown distance and inputting the shutdown time into the logic controller to enable the logic controller to control an electrified time of the roller motor to align the tearing position of the conveyer belt to the maintenance area.

4 . The system for visually identifying and positioning a tearing fault of a conveyer belt of a mining belt conveyor according to claim 3 , wherein step S7 comprises:
S71: calculating the number of turns n of rotation needed by a driving motor according to the shutdown time,

n
=

L

D
⁢
π

;

S72: calculating an electrified time t of the driving motor according to the shutdown distance and a current speed v of the conveyer belt measured by the speed sensor,

t
=

L
v

;

S73: calculating the shutdown time,

t
0

=

6
⁢
0
⁢
n

N

,

N
=

6
⁢
0
⁢
f

p

,

f being the frequency of the frequency converter, and P being the number of pole pairs of the motor; and
S74: inputting the shutdown time t 0 into the logic controller to enable the logic controller to control an electrified time t of the roller motor to align the tearing position of the conveyer belt to the maintenance area.

5 . The system for visually identifying and positioning a tearing fault of a conveyer belt of a mining belt conveyor according to claim 1 , wherein the industrial camera and a return speed direction of the return conveyer belt form an included angle of 45°.

6 . The system for visually identifying and positioning a tearing fault of a conveyer belt of a mining belt conveyor according to claim 1 , further comprising an illumination device, wherein the illumination device adopts a linear industrial illumination device, is fixed above the return conveyer belt and below the industrial camera and forms an included angle of 135° with the speed direction of the return conveyer belt.

7 . The system for visually identifying and positioning a tearing faul

Assignees

• Univ Taiyuan Technology

Inventors

• Ding Hua
• Bian Yongshuai
• Zheng Guangyu
• Li Ning
• Sun Xiaochun
• Zhang Junhu
• Zhao Junjun
• Wang Bao
• Wang Yiliang
• Liao Yaoyao

Classifications

• B65G2203/041

  Camera · CPC title

• B65G43/02 Primary

  detecting dangerous physical condition of load carriers, e.g. for interrupting the drive in the event of overheating · CPC title