Deep Sea Sampling

In this joint project, a consortium of seven partners is developing a template that can be used for vertical ore mining in the deep sea.

The following tasks are being carried out at the institute:

Conceptualisation of tool changing 
Investigations into the possibility of wear detection on tools and technical solutions for changing tools under water

Position determination
Investigations into sensor systems and the possibilities for sensor data fusion for alignment and position determination under water

SMS-Minerals
Investigation of the properties relevant to the mining of minerals and tests to assess mining conditions

Pressure-tight design of sensor systems

Design of semi-autonomous working systems

Sensor data acquisition, -analysis and transmission with limited bandwidths

Control and regulation of drives using position data

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