“…It was first applied in the 1940s in Russia and then subsequently used in France, Turkey, former Yugoslavia, Romania, Hungary, and former Czechoslovakia [ 2 , 3 ]. As the development of modern mining equipments, hydraulic support, conveyor, shearer and so on are widely used in coal working face [ 4 ], Coal-rock recognition(CRR) is one of the critical technique on TCC automation in fully mechanized top coal caving face [ 5 ]. Since the 1960s, more than 30 coal-rock recognition methods have been put forward, these methods covered gamma radiation, radar, vibration, infrared radiation, stress, acoustic, and so on[ 5 – 8 ].…”