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• Technology Upgrade of the Sarcos Snake Robot
  11/28/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to provide a technology upgrade to the Sarcos snake robot that was built to assist in mine emergencies.
• Gemini-Scout Mine Rescue Vehicle Update
  11/23/2016 - Interagency agreements
  This contract empowered Sandia Laboratories to update and improve three Gemini-Scout Mine Rescue vehicles for use in the field.
• Underground Vehicle Guidance Technology Refinement
  11/22/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to aid miners who, during an emergency underground evacuation, have to travel through obscured visual conditions.
• Mine Escape Vehicle Concept Investigation
  11/16/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to provide a design for a Mine Escape Vehicle to facilitate rapid escape of personnel from an underground mine in an emergency. The design for the vehicle will include components for vehicle platform, life support, navigation, and communication.
• Investigation of Enhanced Refuge Alternatives
  10/22/2016 - Research projects
  A project to provide the underlying scientific evidence that addresses, minimizes, and, where possible, eliminates the concerns miners have about using a refuge alternative after a mine disaster.
• Announcing New Publication on Refuge Alternatives
  10/22/2016 - News and announcements, Reports of Investigations
  A feature story to announce the publication of a new NIOSH RI on built-in-place refuge alternatives.
• Refuge Alternatives Relief Valve Testing and Design
  10/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This article by NIOSH describing testing of three different versions of relief valves and their effectiveness in regulating the pressure in a built-in-place refuge alternative.
• Development and Demonstration of a Robotic Support Vehicle for Underground Mine Rescue Efforts
  9/20/2016 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to design and develop a mine rescue support machine that will increase the ability of mine rescue teams to respond to catastrophic mine events.
• Refuge Alternative Software and Guidance for Underground Coal Mines Supplemental Information
  9/16/2016
  This page lists a number of other resources pertaining to the refuge alternative presentation at MINExpo 2016.
• Validation of Temperature and Humidity Thermal Model of 23-person Tent-type Refuge Alternative
  9/1/2016 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A journal article describing a thermal model of a 23-person tent-type refuge alternative (RA). Testing using this model showed increases in temperature and relative humidity over the 96-hour test period.