Study of monitoring system of hydraulic support movement state based on virtual reality

In order to acquire better mine monitoring results, we established a monitoring system of hydraulic support movement state. The system used sensors and data acquisition modules, and was combined with virtual reality software Virtools. The communication between Virtools and data acquisition modules is achieved through the Software Development Kit (SDK) of Virtools and the Application Program Interface (API) of data acquisition module. Through integrating the 3D hydraulic support model into Virtools, and simultaneously transmitting the actual hydraulic support motion parameters to Virtools, the monitoring of the movement state of hydraulic support is enabled. And the monitoring result is far more better than previous monitoring systems.