Abstract. The profession of a miner is one of the most dangerous in the world. Among the main causes of the fatalities in the underground coal mines is the untimely alerting of the accident, as well as the lack of information for the rescuers about the actual location of the miners after the accident. In an emergency situation (failure or destruction of underground infrastructure), personnel search behind and beneath of blockage should be provided urgently. But none of the standard technologies (RFID, DECT, WiFi, emitting cable), which use the stationary technical devices in mines, provides the information about the people location caught by accident with necessary precision. The only technology that is able to provide guaranteed delivery of messages about the accident to the mine personnel, regardless of their location and under any destruction in the mine, is low-frequency radio technology able to operate through the thickness of rocks even if it is wet. The proposed new system for miners localization is based on solving the inverse problem that allows the magnetic field source coordinates determining using the data of magnetic field measurements. This approach is based on the measurement of the magnetic field radiated by the miner's responder beacon using two fixed and spaced three-component magnetic field receivers and next the inverse problem solution. As a result, the working model of the system for miner's beacon search and localization (MILES – miner's location emergency system) was developed and successfully tested. The paper presents the peculiarities of this development and the results of experimental tests.
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