The invention discloses an underground
coal mine personnel
positioning system and an underground
coal mine personnel positioning method. The underground
coal mine personnel
positioning system comprises a ground control center which is arranged aboveground, and a transmitting
base station, multiple gateway nodes, an
optical fiber, a
bus, multiple
beacon nodes and multiple mobile nodes which are arranged underground, wherein all the underground equipment is intrinsically safe. The underground coal mine personnel positioning method is a BP (Back Propagation) neural network-based and non-
ranging APIT (Approximate Point-in-
triangulation Test) underground personnel positioning method. The underground coal mine personnel positioning method comprises the following steps: according to the structure of an underground laneway, deploying the
beacon nodes; in a training state, generating coordinates of intersection points of every two circumcircles of three intersected triangles which are formed by the
beacon nodes through training, and storing the coordinates in a
database; in a positioning stage, testing according to a PIT (Power Interruption Test) test
system to obtain rough positions of unknown nodes; comparing the rough positions with information in the
database, and deploying mobile nodes at corresponding coordinate positions; and testing by using the PIT test
system for precise positioning. The underground coal mine personnel positioning method has the advantages of high positioning accuracy, small calculating amount and small influence from the density of the beacon nodes.