NEXT GENERATION CARBON NEUTRAL PILOTS FOR SMART INTELLIGENT MINING SYSTEMS

Project Information

NEXGEN-SIMS

Grant agreement ID: 101003591

DOI 10.3030/101003591

Project closed

EC signature date 7 May 2021

Start date 1 May 2021

End date 30 April 2024

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Total cost € 16 247 347,50

EU contribution € 12 986 248,63

Coordinated by

EPIROC ROCK DRILLS AB
Sweden

Deliverables

Documents, reports (1)

Yearly business value report M12

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website and social media established

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Application of MEMS-Based Accelerometers for Near-Field Monitoring of Blasting-Induced Seismicity

Author(s): Krzysztof Fuławka; Piotr Mertuszka; Marcin Szumny; Lech Stolecki; Krzysztof Szczerbiński
Published in: Minerals, Issue Volume 12, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 533, ISSN 2075-163X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/min12050533

Fault Resilient Decentralized Multi-sensorial Fusion Based Pose Estimation for Autonomous Navigation Around Asteroid

Author(s): Moumita Mukherjee; Avijit Banerjee; Sumeet Gajanan Satpute; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, Issue Volume 21, 2023, Page(s) 2031-2042, ISSN 2005-4092
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s12555-022-0528-3

Ensuring Robot-Human Safety for the BD Spot Using Active Visual Tracking and NMPC With Velocity Obstacles

Author(s): Samuel Karlsson; Bjorn Lindqvist; George Nikolakopulos
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue Volume 10, 2022, Page(s) 100224 - 100233, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2022.3205611

Novel approach for the destress blasting in hard rock underground copper mines

Author(s): Piotr Mertuszka, Marcin Szumny, Krzysztof Fuławka, Piotr Kondoł
Published in: Journal of sustainable mining, Issue Volume 21 Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2300-3960
Publisher: Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa)
DOI: 10.46873/2300-3960.1352

COMPRA: A COMPact Reactive Autonomy framework for subterranean MAV based search-and-rescue operations

Author(s): Björn Lindqvist; Christoforos Kanellakis; Sina Sharif Mansouri; Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems (JINT), Issue Journal 105, article 49, 2022, ISSN 1573-0409
Publisher: Springer Nature B.V.
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-022-01665-6

Predictive Model of Seismic Vibration's Peak Value Induced by Multi-face Blasting

Author(s): Krzysztof Fuławka, KGHM CUPRUM Ltd. – Research & Development CentreFollow Lech Stolecki, KGHM CUPRUM Ltd. – Research & Development Centre Piotr Mertuszka, KGHM CUPRUM Ltd. – Research & Development Centre Marcin Szumny, KGHM CUPRUM Ltd. – Research & Development Centre Arkadiusz Anderko, KGHM POLSKA MIEDŹ S.A., Rudna Mine
Published in: Journal of Sustainable Mining, Issue Vol 22, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 2300-3960
Publisher: GiG Research Institute
DOI: 10.46873/2300-3960.1390

A Decentralized Sensor Fusion Scheme for Multi Sensorial Fault Resilient Pose Estimation.

Author(s): Moumita Mukherjee; Avijit Banerjee; Andreas Papadimitriou; Sina Sharif Mansouri; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: Sensors, Issue Vol 21, Iss 24, 2021, Page(s) 8259, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s21248259

Use-Case-Oriented Evaluation of Wireless Communication Technologies for Advanced Underground Mining Operations

Author(s): Theissen, Marius; Kern, Leonhard; Hartmann, Tobias; Clausen, Elisabeth
Published in: Sensors, Issue Vol 23, Iss 7, 2023, Page(s) 3537, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s23073537

Seismic evaluation of the destress blasting efficiency

Author(s): Krzysztof Fuławka, Piotr Mertuszka, Witold Pytel, Marcin Szumny, Tristan Jones
Published in: Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Issue Volume 14, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 1501-1513, ISSN 1674-7755
Publisher: Chinese Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrmge.2021.12.010

Multimodality robotic systems: Integrated combined legged-aerial mobility forsubterranean search-and-rescue

Author(s): Björn Lindqvist; Samuel Karlsson; Anton Koval; Ilias Tevetzidis; Jakub Haluška; Christoforos Kanellakis ; Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (JRAS), Issue Volume 154, 2022, ISSN 0921-8890
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2022.104134

Improvement of Working Conditions and Opinions of Mine Workers when Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) Are Used Instead of Diesel Machines — Results of Field Trial at the Kittilä Mine, Finland

Author(s): Adrianus Halim, Joel Lööw, Jan Johansson, Jan Gustafsson, Andre van Wageningen, Karoly Kocsis
Published in: Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, Issue volume 39, no. 2, 2022, Page(s) 203-219, ISSN 2524-3462
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s42461-021-00506-8

Field trials and fire safety of Battery Electric Vehicles in underground mines - A current snapshot of the advantages and challenges of the use of Battery Electric Vehicles in underground mines

Author(s): Adrianus Halim
Published in: IEEE Electrification Magazine, Issue Volume 12, Issue 1, 2024, Page(s) 56-65, ISSN 2325-5889
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/mele.2023.3348351

3DEG: Data-Driven Descriptor Extraction for Global re-localization in subterranean environments

Author(s): Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos; Anton Koval; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: Expert Systems with Applications, Issue Volume 237, part B, 2024, ISSN 0957-4174
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121508

Conference proceedings (4)

Towards a Reduced Dependency Framework for Autonomous Unified Inspect-Explore Missions

Author(s): Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan; Sumeet Gajanan Satpute; Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Issue Volume 56, Issue 2, 2023, 2023, Page(s) 6279-6285
Publisher: Elsevier Science Direct
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.780

Traversability Aware graph-based Subterranean Exploration with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Author(s): Akash Patel, Christoforos Kanellakis, Ali-Akbar Agha-Mohammadi, George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: IFAC-PapersONLine - Special issue: 22nd IFAC World Congress: Yokohama, Japan, July 9-14, 2023, Issue Volume 56, Issue 2, 2023, 2023, Page(s) 9263-9268
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.072

SA-reCBS: Multi-robot task assignment with integrated reactive path generation

Author(s): Bai, Yifan; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: 22nd IFAC World Congress Yokohama, Japan, July 9-14, 2023, Issue Volume 56, Issue 2 2023, 2023, Page(s) 7032-7037, ISSN 2405-8963
Publisher: IFAC - Papers online
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.551

Multimodal Dataset from Harsh Sub-Terranean Environment with Aerosol Particles for Frontier Exploration

Author(s): Kyuroson, Alexander; Dahlquist, Niklas; Stathoulopoulos, Nikolaos; Viswanathan, Vignesh Kottayam; Koval, Anton; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: 2023 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 2473-3504
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/med59994.2023.10185906

Other (1)

The Designers’ Perspective on Autonomous Mining Systems and Sociotechnology

Author(s): Erik Lund; Jan Johansson; Joel Lööw
Published in: Mining, Metallurgy & Eploration, Issue Volume 41, Issue 2, 2024, Page(s) 647–657
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s42461-024-00952-0