Project description
Exploration drilling for a sustainable future
Exploration drilling is often hampered by inefficiencies and high environmental costs, making it challenging to locate the critical raw materials needed for modern industries. Traditional methods can be slow and ineffective, leading to increased resource depletion and ecological disruption. As demand for these materials grows, finding innovative solutions becomes crucial. With this in mind, the EU-funded MINOTAUR project will investigate exploration drilling from a revolutionary perspective. MINOTAUR integrates geological principles with advanced technologies such as robotics, digital twin technology, and artificial intelligence. By treating exploration as a resource-mapping challenge, it enhances decision-making and streamlines geological assessments, ultimately paving the way for more efficient and sustainable resource management.
Objective
MINOTAUR seeks to address the exploration drilling problem from a novel and revolutionary perspective, bringing together geological principles and concepts involved in exploration drilling with modern technologies such as robotics, digital twin technology, and artificial intelligence. Along the way, MINOTAUR proposes novel research directions in allied areas like geophysics, sensing technologies in geology, environmental impact modeling of whole mineral and production systems, numerical modeling of entire mineral systems related to critical raw materials, new drilling techniques, high-resolution sensing technologies, and artificial intelligence with novel data processing tools for a robust and expeditious geological assessment.
MINOTAUR takes a fundamentally fresh look at exploration drilling and approaches it as a source seeking and resourcing mapping problem, drawing inspirations from solutions in robotics, but where geology is a central part of the decision, with the outcomes of exploration enhanced through artificial intelligence and digital twin technology.
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- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences geophysics
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering robotics
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences geology
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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HORIZON.2.4.4 - Advanced Materials
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL4-2024-RESILIENCE-01
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971 87 LULEA
Sweden
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