Abstract
Investigating and exploring new methods of coal-mining environment has become a new project to resolve the safety of mine
production. The virtual reality technology provides new ways and ideas for the safety of mine production, and the intelligence of
the virtual environment is enhanced as the multi-agent is applied. Based on multi-agent technology and the investigation of the
modeling approach of the virtual environment of the complex coal mine, a three-layer architecture model and the formalization of
the virtual environment of the complex coal mine were presented. The model is composed of data layer, multi-agent layer and
human-machine interface layer. The model of the virtual miner with decision ability is built and is applied to the virtual
environment, which is integrated with the perception, information processing, learning, behavior, planning, decision-making, and
knowledge base and so on, and the model can generate lifelike personification behavior. Then, the consistency protocols of the
multi-agent system of the virtual environment of the complex coal mine were analysised, and the reasons of the consistency
formation of the safety operation of the multi-agent in the virtual environment were descripted. Finally, the control of the
complex behavior of the virtual miners’ agent and interactive simulation of multi-agent in the coalmine virtual environment were
realized in PC using the object-oriented technology. The research in this paper has important significance to safe production of
mine, the relevant research achievements can be applied to other mining areas such as non-ferrous, metallurgy and so on.