Scientific Publications

The project has generated many papers on the technologies and solutions developed while working towards its vision of a more sustainable and efficient production of raw minerals. This compilation of articles in scientific journals and repositories with open access holds works related to the project’s main three pilots: Robotized measurement inspections before and after blasting, Autonomous material handling at face, and, Logistics and mine monitoring.

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

Marius Theissen; Leonhard Kern; Tobias Hartmann; Elisabeth Clausen

– RWTH Aachen University

Novel method of multi-face destress blasting efficiency assessment

Krzysztof Fulawka; Piotr Mertuszka; Marcin Szumny; Lech Stolecki; Izabela Jaskiewicz-Proc

– KGHM Cuprum

Predictive model of seismic vibrations’ peak value induced by multi-face blasting

Krzysztof Fulawka; Lech Stolecki; Piotr Mertuszka; Marcin Szumny; Arkadiusz Anderko

– KGHM Cuprum

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

Krzysztof Fuławka; Piotr Mertuszka; Marcin Szumny; Lech Stolecki; Krzysztof Szczerbiński

– KGHM Cuprum

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

Piotr Mertuszka, Marcin Szumny, Krzysztof Fuławka, Piotr Kondoł

– KGHM Cuprum

Seismic evaluation of the destress blasting efficiency

Krzysztof Fuławka, Piotr Mertuszka, Witold Pytel, Marcin Szumny, Tristan Jones

– KGHM Cuprum

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

Adrianus Halim

– Luleå University of Technology

FRAME: Fast and Robust Autonomous 3D point cloud Map-merging for Egocentric multi-robot exploration

Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos, Anton Koval, Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology

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

Mumita Mukherjee; Avijit Banerjee, Anderas Papadimitriou; Sina Sharif Mansouri, Geaorge Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology 

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

Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos, Anton Koval, George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology

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

Yifan Bai, Christoforos Kanellakis, George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology 

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

Yifan Bai, Björn Lindqvist, Samuel Karlsson, Christoforos Kanellakis, George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology

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

Moumita Mukherjee, Avijit Banerjee, Sumeet Gajanan Satpute and George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology 

MSL3D: Pointcloud-based muck pile Segmentation and Localization in Unknown SubT Environments 

Mario A.V. Saucedo, Christoforos Kanellakis and George Nikolakopoulos 

– Luleå University of Technology

Event Camera and LiDAR based Human Tracking for Adverse Lighting Conditions in Subterranean Environments

Mario A.V. Saucedo, Akash Patel, Rucha Sawlekar, Akshit Saradagi, Christoforos Kanellakis, Ali-Akbar Agha-Mohammadi and George Nikolakopoulos 

– Luleå University of Technology 

Irregular Change Detection in Sparse Bi-Temporal Point Clouds using Learned Place Recognition Descriptors and Point-to-Voxel Comparison 

Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos, Anton Koval, George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology

Redundant and Loosely Coupled LiDAR-Wi-Fi Integration for Robust Global Localization in Autonomous Mobile Robotics 

Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos, Emanuele Pagliari, Luca Davoli, George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology 

Traversability Aware Graph-Based Subterranean Exploration with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Akash Patel, Christoforos Kanellakis, George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology

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

Alexander Kyuroson, Niklas Dahlquist, Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos, Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Anton Koval, George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology 

Efficient Real-time Smoke Filtration with 3D LiDAR for Search and Rescue with Autonomous Heterogeneous Robotic Systems

Alexander Kyuroson, Anton Koval, George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology

Multi-Agent Coordination Strategy for Collaborative Exploration of Subterranean Environments

Akash Patel, Christoforos Kanellakis and George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology 

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

Björn Lindqvist; Christoforos Kanellakis; Sina Sharif Mansouri; Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi; George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology 

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

Samuel Karlsson; Bjorn Lindqvist; George Nikolakopulos

– Luleå University of Technology 

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

Björn Lindqvist; Samuel Karlsson; Anton Koval; Ilias Tevetzidis; Jakub Haluška; Christoforos Kanellakis ; Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi; George Nikolakopoulos

– Luleå University of Technology