Autonomous Exploration and Extraction of Deep Mineral Deposits

Informacje na temat projektu

PERSEPHONE

Identyfikator umowy o grant: 101138451

DOI

10.3030/101138451

Data podpisania przez KE 27 Listopada 2023

Data rozpoczęcia 1 Stycznia 2024

Data zakończenia 31 Grudnia 2026

Finansowanie w ramach

• Digital, Industry and Space

Koszt całkowity

Brak danych

Wkład UE

€ 4 993 125,47

Koordynowany przez

LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET
Sweden

CORDIS oferuje możliwość skorzystania z odnośników do publicznie dostępnych publikacji i rezultatów projektów realizowanych w ramach programów ramowych HORYZONT.

Odnośniki do rezultatów i publikacji związanych z poszczególnymi projektami 7PR, a także odnośniki do niektórych konkretnych kategorii wyników, takich jak zbiory danych i oprogramowanie, są dynamicznie pobierane z systemu OpenAIRE .

Rezultaty

Documents, reports (10)

Iterative evaluation of proposed technologies

Details about the integration and iterative evaluation of technologies developed in WP2 – WP5 onto the mining machine simulator.

Algorithms for sensor-based risk-assessment and traversability analysis

Novel algorithms for risk assessment and traversability analysis and validation on multi-sensor data from deep and abandoned mines.

Dissemination and communication plan

Plan for dissemination activities that will be carried out in the project. This includes a schedule on dissemination activities and communication channels which will be further updated during the project.The deliverable is the result of task 10.1

Novel path planning and multi-machine coordination algorithms

Design and validation in simulated environments of novel path-planning and multi-machine coordination algorithms, highlighting improvements over the state-of-the-art.

Interim report on consortium-wide efforts at academic, industrial and public dissemination

Details about the consortium’s actions towards dissemination of the project results and outcomes such as scientific articles in journals, abstracts and proceedings in conferences.

Multi-machine mapping and map merging algorithms validated in simulated environments

Collaborative multi-machine algorithms to enable multi-machine operation in simulated deep/abandoned mines.

Realistic simulation worlds for integrated testing of PERSEPHONE technologies

Details about realistic simulation environments of deep and abandoned mines, which are used to evaluate and perfect the technologies of WP2-WP7, before deployment in the field.

Requirements, specifications and benchmarking tools for proposed technologies

Requirements, specifications and benchmarking tools for the evaluation of PERSEPHONE technologies (WP2-WP7) in line with UNFC/UNRMS.

Literature survey on SoA technologies and existing roadmaps in the mining industry

A comprehensive review of the SoA technologies relevant to PERSEPHONE, to enable the defining of requirements and specifications for the technical WPs.

Algorithms for autonomous drill planning and execution

Design and validation of the developed algorithms for drill planning and execution in simulated environments.

Other (2)

Sensing methods for detecting drill sites and visual servoing for exploration drilling.

Sensing methodologies and accurate positioning algorithms for drilling machines and validation in simulated deep and abandoned mine-like environments.

Review, testing and evaluation of sensing techniques for online rock characterization in simulated environments

Results of the testing and validation of novel sensing technologies for real-time rock characterization and methods for integrating such sensors on drill rigs.

Data Management Plan (2)

Initial report on open data releases, data management, innovation management and IP protection

Initial summary of the actions towards ensuring research verifiability/reproducibility of the PERSEPHONE results, such as open releases of data from lab experiments/ small scale field tests. Details about the establishment of Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and Innovation Management Office (IMO) and innovation support tools for protection of the partners’ IPs.

Data Management Plan

The DMP will be made available and evolve during the lifetime of the project in order to present the status of the project's reflections on data management.

Publikacje

Conference proceedings (4)

SPADE: Towards Scalable Path Planning Architecture on Actionable Multi-Domain 3D Scene Graphs

Autorzy: Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Akash Patel, Mario Alberto Valdes Saucedo, Sumeet Satpute, Christoforos Kanellakis, George Nikolakopoulos
Opublikowane w: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2505.19098

Design of Cooperative Robotic Arms with Increased Workspace for Unknown Extreme Environments Exploration

Autorzy: Iliakis Aggelos, Koustoumpardis Panagiotis
Opublikowane w: Mechanisms and Machine Science, Advances in Mechanisms and Machine Science, 2026
Wydawca: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-14023-4_23

An Actionable Hierarchical Scene Representation Enhancing Autonomous Inspection Missions in Unknown Environments

Autorzy: Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Mario Alberto Valdes Saucedo, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute, Christoforos Kanellakis, George Nikolakopoulos
Opublikowane w: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2412.19582

A Hierarchical Graph-Based Terrain-Aware Autonomous Navigation Approach for Complementary Multimodal Ground-Aerial Exploration

Autorzy: Akash Patel, Mario A.V. Saucedo, Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos, Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Ilias Tevetzidis, Christoforos Kanellakis, George Nikolakopoulos
Opublikowane w: IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA),, 2025
Wydawca: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2505.14859

Other (1)

The PERSEPHONE project: Autonomous Exploration and Extraction of Deep Mineral Deposits

Autorzy: Akash Patel, Anton Koval, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute, George Nikolakopoulos, Christian Burlet, Giorgia Stasi
Opublikowane w: 2025
Wydawca: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU25-19608

Peer reviewed articles (2)

Autonomous Mobile Inspection Robots in Deep Underground Mining—The Current State of the Art and Future Perspectives

Autorzy: Martyna Konieczna-Fuławka, Anton Koval, George Nikolakopoulos, Matteo Fumagalli, Laura Santas Moreu, Victor Vigara-Puche, Jakob Müller, Michael Prenner
Opublikowane w: Sensors, Numer 25, 2025, ISSN 1424-8220
Wydawca: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/S25123598

Autonomous Drilling and the Idea of Next-Generation Deep Mineral Exploration

Autorzy: George Nikolakopoulos, Anton Koval, Matteo Fumagalli, Martyna Konieczna-Fuławka, Laura Santas Moreu, Victor Vigara-Puche, Kashish Verma, Bob de Waard, René Deutsch
Opublikowane w: Sensors, Numer 25, 2025, ISSN 1424-8220
Wydawca: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/S25133953