The Mining Automation Theme is shared between two CSIRO Divisions, Exploration & Mining and The ICT Centre. More information is available from The ICT Centre.
In the next 10 years, integrated real-time knowledge will transform mining decision making and automation processes, opening the way to the automated mine which will deliver significant benefits in productivity and safety.
Generating this knowledge will depend on harnessing advanced communications technology for mining applications and the development of a suite of new sensors to enable autonomous equipment operation in hazardous and constantly changing mining environments.
Personnel tracking, environmental and geotechnical monitoring, equipment control, tele-operation and traffic management are some innovations that will allow workers to operate mines from safe environments and achieve consistent and predictable outputs.
Aims
Our aim is to increase safety and productivity in mining by developing high technology, distributed intelligent network systems and automated mining processes which will:
- streamline decision making
- remove people from hazardous environments
- ensure consistency in production systems.
Capabilities
Our R&D strengths lie in our ability to solve industry problems by innovatively combining:
- information and computer technology
- communications
- robotics
- automatic control of both mining equipment and processes.
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