illuMINEation --- Bright concepts for a safe and sustainable digital mining future

Project Information

illuMINEation

Grant agreement ID: 869379

DOI 10.3030/869379

Project closed

EC signature date 16 April 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 29 February 2024

Funded under

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

Total cost € 8 863 685,00

EU contribution € 8 863 685,00

Coordinated by

MONTANUNIVERSITAET LEOBEN
Austria

Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

This deliverable specifies data handling during the project and after its end This document particularly ensures that all data is collected in the correct format is organized well and annotated in a good manner The contribution to the EC Raw Materials Information System RMIS will be covered by this document as well

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Corporate identity and project webpage

The corporate identity for the project will be finalized and a public project webpage will be setup

Project Flyer and Project Video

The overall project outcome will be mirrored within a project flyer and a project video.

Documents, reports (4)

Data assessment for safe zone classification

Report on data availability from existing sensors in a typical highly mechanised operation Evaluation how the data can be used and analysed towards classifying mining areas with respect to a safety status

Requirements of the mining industry

Report outlining the particular requirements of the different use case partners in connection with sensors data transfer modes storage systems data analysis visualization etc

Training activities for mine personnel

Description of a course program dedicated to transfer illuMINEation knowledge to mine personnel.

The Safe Zone Concept - improved safety and environmental performance

Report describes all elements of the Safe Zone Concept: instrument rock bolts with low-cost sensors and data transmission capabilities; emissions and ground water quality monitoring services; tracking and positioning of equipment and personnel.

Publications

Conference proceedings (20)

A Scalable Distributed Collision Avoidance Scheme for Multi-agent UAV systems

Author(s): Lindqvist, Bjorn; Sopasakis, Pantelis; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: Issue 8, 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636293

Towards Robust and Efficient Plane Detection from 3D Point Cloud

Author(s): Sharif Mansouri, Sina; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Pourkamali-Anaraki, Farhad; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icuas51884.2021.9476824

Evaluation of Lidar-based 3D SLAM algorithms in SubT environment

Author(s): Anton Koval; Christoforos Kanellakis; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2023
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.13613

Experimental Evaluation of a Geometry-Aware Aerial Visual Inspection Framework in a Constrained Environment

Author(s): Kottayam Viswanathan, Vignesh; Gajanan Satpute, Sumeet; Lindqvist, Björn; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/med54222.2022.9837166

Exploration-RRT: A multi-objective Path Planning and Exploration Framework for Unknown and Unstructured Environments

Author(s): Lindqvist, Björn; Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021), September 27-October 1, 2021, 2021
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.1109/iros51168.2021.9636243

A Resilient to Faults Auto-Encoder Enabled Kalman based Multi-Sensorial Fusion

Author(s): Mukherjee, Moumita; Banerjee, Avijit; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/med54222.2022.9837222

Geometry Aware NMPC Scheme for Morphing Quadrotor Navigation in Restricted Entrances

Author(s): Papadimitriou, Andreas; Mansouri, Sina Sharif; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: CoRR, Issue abs/2101.02965, 2021
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2101.02965

Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Tailing Storage Facility Soil Classification Based on CPT Measurements

Author(s): Duda-Mróz Natalia; Anufriiev Sergii; Koperska Wioletta; Stefaniak Paweł; Stefanek Paweł
Published in: Intelligent Minning: Innovation, Vision and Value (APCOM), 2023
Publisher: Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8123734

Traversability Aware graph-based Subterranean Exploration with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles*

Author(s): Patel, Akash; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Agha-Mohammadi, Ali-Akbar; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: Crossref, Issue 1, 2023
Publisher: IFAC-PapersOnLine
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.072

Monocular Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance Scheme for Micro Aerial Vehicle Navigation

Author(s): Karlsson, Samuel; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Sharif Mansouri, Sina; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icuas51884.2021.9476793

Switching Model Predictive Control for Online Structural Reformations of a Foldable Quadrotor

Author(s): Papadimitriou, Andreas; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2020
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iecon43393.2020.9254691

Multidimensional Data Analysis for Drilling Process in Underground Mines

Author(s): Stachowiak Maria; Koperska Wioletta; Skoczylas Artur; Anufriiev Sergii; Stefaniak Paweł; Stefanek Paweł
Published in: Intelligent Minning: Innovation, Vision and Value (APCOM), 2023
Publisher: Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8123768

Aerial Thermal Image based Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Detection in SubT Environments

Author(s): Koval, Anton; Sharif Mansouri, Sina; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: Issue 7, 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS51884.2021.9476853

Decision Support System for Monitoring and Stability Assessment of The Tailings Storage Facility

Author(s): Koperska Wioletta; Stachowiak Maria; Anufriiev Sergii; Stefaniak Paweł; Stefanek Paweł
Published in: Intelligent Minning: Innovation, Vision and Value (APCOM), 2023
Publisher: Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8123637

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

Author(s): Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos; Anton Koval; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: 2022
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2210.07285

First-look enabled Autonomous Aerial Visual Inspection of Geometrically Fractured Objects in Constrained Environment

Author(s): Kottayam Viswanathan, Vignesh; Gajanan Satpute. Sumeet; Lindqvist, Bjorn; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: Issue 5, 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7513674

Design and Model Predictive Control of a Mars Coaxial Quadrotor

Author(s): Patel, Akash; Banerjee, Avijit; Lindqvist, Björn; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/aero53065.2022.9843799

Fast Planner for MAV Navigation in Unknown Environments Based on Adaptive Search of Safe Look-Ahead Poses

Author(s): Patel, Akash; Lindqvist, Björn; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/med54222.2022.9837293

An Auto-Encoder enabled Fault Detection and Isolation Scheme for enabling a Multi-Sensorial Distributed Pose Estimation

Author(s): Mukherjee, Moumita; Banerjee, Avijit; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: 2022 IEEE 31st International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/isie51582.2022.9831458

Multi-Robot Task Allocation Framework with Integrated Risk-Aware 3D Path Planning

Author(s): Bai, Yifan; Lindqvist, Björn; Karlsson, Samuel; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: 2022
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/med54222.2022.9837240

Peer reviewed articles (25)

REF: A Rapid Exploration Framework for Deploying Autonomous MAVs in Unknown Environments

Author(s): Patel, Akash; Lindqvist, Bjorn; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Agha-Mohammadi, Ali-Akbar; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2023, ISSN 0921-0296
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-023-01836-z

Rock mass structural recognition from drill monitoring technology in underground mining using discontinuity index and machine learning techniques

Author(s): Alberto Fernández; José A. Sanchidrián; Pablo Segarra; Santiago Gómez; Enming Li; Rafael Navarro
Published in: International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, 2023, ISSN 2095-2686
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmst.2023.02.004

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

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

The Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) stability monitoring system using advanced big data analytics on the example of the Zelazny Most Facility

Author(s): Wioletta Koperska; Maria Stachowiak; Natalia Duda-Mróz; Paweł Stefaniak; Bartosz Jachnik; Bartłomiej Bursa; Paweł Stefanek
Published in: Archives of Civil Engineering, 2022, ISSN 1230-2945
Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe P W N SA
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6807859

FLIE: First-Look Enabled Inspect-Explore Autonomy Toward Visual Inspection of Unknown Distributed and Discontinuous Structures

Author(s): Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan; Sumeet Gajanan Satpute; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: Crossref, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2023.3257646

Multi-Stage NMPC for a MAV based Collision Free Navigation Under Varying Communication Delays

Author(s): Andreas Papadimitriou; Hedyeh Jafari; Sina Sharif Mansouri; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: Crossref, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 0921-0296
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-023-01818-1

External force estimation and disturbance rejection for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Author(s): Papadimitriou, Andreas; Jafari, Hedyeh; Sharif Mansouri, Sina; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: Expert Systems with Applications, 2022, ISSN 0957-4174
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2022.116883

Experimental evaluation of autonomous map-based Spot navigation in confined environments

Author(s): Anton Koval; Samuel Karlsson; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics, 2022, ISSN 2667-3797
Publisher: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.birob.2022.100035

Roof Fall Hazard Monitoring and Evaluation—State-of-the-Art Review

Author(s): Krzysztof Fuławka; Lech Stolecki; Marcin Szumny; Witold Pytel; Izabela Jaśkiewicz-Proć; Michel Jakić; Michael Nöger; Philipp Hartlieb
Published in: Energies, 2022, ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/en15218312

Predicting rock fragmentation based on drill monitoring: A case study from Malmberget mine, Sweden

Author(s): M. Danielsson; E. Söderström; H. Schunnesson; A. Gustafson; H. Fredriksson; D. Johansson; S. Manzoor
Published in: Crossref, Issue 6, 2022, ISSN 2225-6253
Publisher: South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
DOI: 10.17159/2411-9717/1587/2022

On the Unification of Legged and Aerial Robots for Planetary Exploration Missions

Author(s): Haluska, Jakub; Koval, Anton; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: Applied Sciences, Issue 7, 2022, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app12083983

Application of percentile color intensities of borehole images for automatic fluorite grade assessment

Author(s): Li, Enming; Segarra, Pablo; Sanchidrián, José Ángel; Gómez, Santiago; Fernandez, Alberto; Navarro, Rafael; Bernardini, Maurizio
Published in: Ore Geology Reviews, 2023, ISSN 0169-1368
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2023.105790

D*+: A Risk Aware Platform Agnostic Heterogeneous Path Planner

Author(s): Samuel Karlsson; Anton Koval; Christoforos Kanellakis; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: Crossref, Issue 7, 2023, ISSN 0957-4174
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4137561

Towards Autonomous Aerial Scouting Using Multi-Rotors in Subterranean Tunnel Navigation

Author(s): C. Kanellakis, P. S. Karvelis, S. S. Mansouri, A.-A. Agha-Mohammadi and G. Nikolakopoulos
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 9, 2021, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2021.3076578

Prototype of Instrumented Rock Bolt for Continuous Monitoring of Roof Fall Hazard in Deep Underground Mines.

Author(s): Krzysztof Fuławka; Witold Pytel; Marcin Szumny; Piotr Mertuszka; Bogumila Palac-Walko; Philipp Hartlieb; Michel Jakić; Michael Nöger
Published in: Sensors; Volume 23; Issue 1; Pages: 154, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s23010154

Towards Energy Efficient Autonomous Exploration of Mars Lava Tube with a Martian Coaxial Quadrotor

Author(s): Patel, Akash; Karlsson, Samuel; Lindqvist, Bjorn; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Agha-Mohammadi, Ali-Akbar; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: Advances in Space Research, 2022, ISSN 0273-1177
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2022.11.014

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

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

Dataset collection from a SubT environment

Author(s): Koval, Anton; Karlsson, Samuel; Sharif Mansouri, Sina; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Tevetzidis, ilias; Haluska, Jakub; Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2022, ISSN 0921-8890
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2022.104168

Application of Ultra-Wide Band Sensors in Mining.

Author(s): Katja Wisiak; Michel Jakić; Philipp Hartlieb
Published in: Sensors, 2022, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s23010300

Reactive Navigation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle With Perception-Based Obstacle Avoidance Constraints

Author(s): Björn Lindqvist; Sina Sharif Mansouri; Jakub Haluska; George Nikolakopoulos
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Issue 19, 2021, ISSN 1063-6536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2207.01406

Range-aided ego-centric collaborative pose estimation for multiple robots

Author(s): Papadimitriou, Andreas; Sharif Mansouri, Sina; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: Expert Systems with Applications, 2022, ISSN 0957-4174
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117052

Recognition of LHD Position and Maneuvers in Underground Mining Excavations—Identification and Parametrization of Turns

Author(s): Justyna Witulska; Paweł Stefaniak; Bartosz Jachnik; Artur Skoczylas; Paweł Śliwiński; Marek Dudzik
Published in: Applied Sciences, Issue Volume 11, 2021, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app11136075

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

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

Towards Managing Uncertain Geo-Information for Drilling Disasters Using Event Tracking Sensitivity Analysis

Author(s): Tavakoli, Siamak; Poslad, Stefan; Fruhwirth, Rudolf; Winter, Martin; Zeiner, Herwig
Published in: Sensors, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s23094292

Pangea: An MLOps Tool for Automatically Generating Infrastructure and Deploying Analytic Pipelines in Edge, Fog and Cloud Layers

Author(s): Minon, Raul; Diaz-de-Arcaya, Josu; Torre-Bastida, Ana I.; Hartlieb, Philipp
Published in: Sensors, 2022, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s22124425

Other (6)

Requirements of the mining industry

Author(s): Paterek, Marcin; Pikula, Maciej; Szumny, Marcin; Haugen, Sunniva; Bondarchuk, Alexander; Nystrom, Anders; Landstrom, Anna; Bursa, Bartolomej; Swiderski, Bartosz; Navarro, Rafael; Moser, Anja; Frömmer, Thomas; Loidl, Gernot; Waidacher, Verena; Hartlieb, Philipp
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7179844

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

Author(s): Lindqvist, Björn; Kanellakis, Christoforos; Mansouri, Sina Sharif; Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar; Nikolakopoulos, George
Published in: CoRR, 2021
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.13105

The safe zone concept

Author(s): Hartlieb, Philipp; Varelija, Michel; Nöger, Varelija; Paterek, Marcin; Kobylanska, Malwina; Bursa, Bartlomiej; Rody, Morgan; Mosberger, Rafael
Published in: Project Deliverable, 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10638954

Training activities for mine personnel

Author(s): Hartlieb, Philipp; Varelija, Michel; Fernandez, Alberto; Stefaniak, Pawel; Bursa, Bartolomiej
Published in: Project Deliverable, 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10639114

illuMINEation - Data Management Plan

Author(s): Rehatschek, Karin; Loidl, Gernot; Hartlieb, Philipp; Waidacher Verena; Rios, Erkuden; Iturbe, Eider; Zeiner, Herwig; Garcia, Maite; Guilhot, Denis; Plociennik, Marcin; Jonsson, Daniel P.
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7070728

Data assessment for safe zone classification

Author(s): Nöger, Michael; Hartlieb, Philipp; Fimbinger, Eric; Mansouri, Sina Sharif; Paterek, Marcin; Bursa, Bartolomiej; Sörensen, Josephine
Published in: 2021
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7070699

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Wykorzystanie niskokosztowych sensorów oraz ogólnodostępnych platform programistycznych na potrzeby monitoringu wód podziemnych oraz jakości atmosfery. (The use of low-cost sensors and generally available programming platforms for the monitoring of groundwater and the quality of the atmosphere)

Author(s): Paterek, Marcin; Kobylańska, Malwina
Published in: CUPRUM – Czasopismo Naukowo-Techniczne Górnictwa Rud, 2022, ISSN 0137-2815
Publisher: Cuprum
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7962002

Thesis and dissertations (1)

An engineering model for the prediction of full-field blast vibrations and rock mass damage

Author(s): Santiago Gómez Mateos
Published in: Crossref, Issue 2, 2024
Publisher: E.T.S.I. de Minas y Energía (UPM)
DOI: 10.20868/upm.thesis.80466