Abstract:The major function of anti grade trip of underground coal mine power supply system is making the distributing point nearest from the fault point trip. However, singlebus connection is employed among every distributing points which makes the anti grade trip a complicated twostage communication network and will hardly meet the realtime requirement. The underground anti grade trip program is proposed based on the idea of substationarea protection, this program is implemented by a singlestage communication network which is composed of a RTEthernet constituted by substationarea protection device and monitoring host. The main function of substationarea protection device includes collecting electric information of distributing points from underground power supply system and confirming malfunction and upload malfunction information. The monitoring host locates the distributing point where the malfunctioning circuit lies by fault matrix method then sends a tripping order to the substationarea protection device to impel the breaker nearest from the fault point to trip. Meanwhile the realtime property of the anti grade trip system is guaranteed by the application of high performance RTEthernet. Experimental results show that this program can make the breaker nearest from the fault point trip, and in the mean time meets the real time requirements of the underground anti grade trip, thus providing a new solution to the coal mine grade tripping.