Is (or was) there life beyond Earth? The answer to this question leads underground on planetary bodies in our solar system. Planetary subsurface voids are one of the most likely places to find signs of life (both extinct and extant). Subsurface voids are also one of the main candidates for future hu...

Epiroc has started a new European Union-funded collaboration project together with several mining companies, equipment and system manufacturers and universities. The three-year project, called NEXGEN SIMS, will support new technologies, methods and processes that will enable a more sustainable and e...

illuMINEation will illuminate important digitalization aspects in underground mining operations in order to achieve the next level of safety, environment and economic performance, and to retain and gain a social licence to operate. The project will develop a robust multi-level distributed IIoT platf...

AERO-TRAIN fills gaps between the infrastructure O&M industry and Industry4.0 with the ambition to keep our invaluable assets operational and safe. The AERO-TRAIN general objectives are, in fact, to reduce the costs associated to O&M operations, while increasing the safety aspects related to the ass...

To develop the digitalized, autonomous and carbon-dioxide-free mine of the future, in collaboration with other globally leading Swedish companies, LKAB initiated SUM, Sustainable Underground Mining in 2018. Significant progress has been made and the engineering group Sandvik has now joined the ventu...

5G is currently being rolled out on a broad front in Sweden and offers, in addition to higher data rates and lower delays, a completely new environment for application development where software can be placed dynamically in the cloud and closer to the end user at the edge of the network.

G-DRONES aims to demonstrate the autonomous operation of the rapid deployment of aerial robotic solution for aerial inspection of areas after blasting and the overall integration of this technology to the current mining production systems.

Existing EU policies aiming at strengthening and growth are mainly focused on new developments, omitting investments in inspection and maintenance operations due to traditionally high costs. To overtake this, VORTEX aims to commercialize the Vortex Robot (VR) technology developed in 202020 FETOPEN C...

RIT 2022 is a collaborative EU-funded project with the objective to create sustainable growth in the region of Norrbotten and enhancing its role as Sweden’s leading space region. The partners belong to the academic sector, the business sector and actors within the innovation support system.

RIT 2021 is a collaborative EU funded project with the objective to create sustainable growth in the region of Norrbotten and enhancing its role as Sweden’s leading space region. The partners belong to the academic sector, the business sector and actors within the innovation support system.

Beyond UNIVERSEH will develop the research and innovation dimension of the UNIVERSEH European University, an alliance of five partners: University of Toulouse (France), AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany) and University of Luxembourg (Lux...

European Space University for Earth and Humanity

BIOeMIND aims to develop and demonstrate a sustainable treatment process for acid mine drainage (AMD). In this concept, we will combine a bioelectrochemical cell, including biological electricity-driven autotrophic sulfate- reduction for the production of sulfide, with an electrochemical cell that i...

The main objective of the RoboSol (Collaborative Robotic Solutions for the development of Sustainable micro, SME and large scale industries) project is to increase the international competitiveness and capacity of the companies in the Interreg Nord area. The goal is also to promote equality in the l...

Drone safety monitoring systems for Arctic mining. The project is co-funded by Kolarctic CBCProgramme

Robots and other autonomous systems are increasingly being adopted in diverse fields – from healthcare and security to transport and manufacturing – as they become cheaper and smarter. However, a significant gap exists between the current reality of robotic capabilities and real-world requirements. ...

This project aims to develop a better understanding and to increase the knowledge around the concept of a “complete” solution to enable autonomous operation of autonomous robotic platforms in large-scale underground tunnelling environments. The envisioned operations include exploration of either kno...

The aim of the project is to produce information and concrete solutions about the new generation of robotics, as well as its usability for production companies in various sectors in the Interreg Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme area from corona recession recovery and to encourage business dev...

MIRAI 2.0 is a collaboration between 19 Swedish and Japanese universities, aiming to contribute to long-term research collaboration and to promote Sweden and Japan as nations of world-leading large-scale research infrastructure. MIRAI 2.0 (2020-2022) builds on the former MIRAI project (2017-2019) an...

This project is a direct collaboration among HONDA HRI and LTU - Robotics in order to define and implement novel concepts of multimodal robotic vehicles. The project duration is 3 years.

Drone technology, remote control, automation and autonomous vehicles are areas with a growing interest globally. LFV FoI has already successfully completed a number of projects in areas such as sustainability, safety and reduction of running costs for airports. This project aims at moving new techno...

DRONESAFE proposes the development of autonomous drones, equipped with gas sensors, to monitor gas toxicity levels or specific areas in BOLIDEN's open pit mine in Aitik, Sweden after blasting. To break Swedish deposits both at increasing depth with increased productivity and safety, DRONESAFE focuse...

The name Elise is an acronym for “Elektrisk Lufttransport i Sverige” (Electric Aviation in Sweden). The project is funded by the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova.

Elise are building an electric aircraft in Sweden. It is a collaboration between Chalmers University of Technology, KTH – Royal Insti...

There is an innovative need for more efficient and reliable damage inspection, reducing time and cost of aircraft infrastructures, as well as maintenance-especially C and D Checks- without compromising the safety of passengers and goods transported. The CompInnova project is focused upon the develop...

The SIMS project aspires to create a long lasting impact on the way we test and demonstrate new technology and solutions for the mining industry. With a selected consortium ranging from mining companies, equipment and system suppliers to top-class universities, the SIMS project will boost developmen...

AEROWORKS envisions a novel aerial robotic team that possesses the capability to autonomously conduct infrastructure inspection and maintenance tasks, while additionally providing intuitive and user-friendly interfaces to human-operators. The AEROWORKS robotic team will consist of multiple heterogen...

SPIRE - IPC: Integrated Process Control based on Distributed In-Situ Sensors into Raw Materials and Energy

With the DISIRE project the properties of the raw materials or product flows will be dramatically integrated by their transformation in a unique inline measuring system that will extend the ...

New Understanding of Motor Control and Falls by Novel Postural Sway Analysis, Robotics and Mathematical Modelling

Falls and fear of falling pose major threats to health and independence among elderly people. Our objective is to gain further knowledge regarding balance control aspects on fall risk...

The Outdoor Motion Capture System (O-MCS) is focusing in the area of fundamendal Field Robotics in unstructured and dynamical environments, with large scale robots under experimental evaluation scenarios in real life applications. Characteristic robotic examples can be extracted from the fields of c...

This is a project that combines principles from the area of biomimetic robotics and arts, with an overall aim to design and develop a Robotic Dancer based on the technology of Pneumatic Muscle Actuators in order to replicate the naturallity and the elegance of a human dancer. This stage will focus i...

he aim of this project is to fund a Post Doc position with a general focus on Reconfigurable Process Control Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks. The duration of the project is 2 years, starting from 2016.

European manufacturing industry faces increasing product variances resulting as a consequence of frequent innovation, short product lifecycles, small series production, and shrinking production cycles. At the same time, production cost must be continuously reduced. Agile, transformable and re-usable...

This project is a collaboration between LTU and the Swedeish Space Coorporation towards the development of an Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle. The developments are based on a real scale Toyota Land Cruiser and the project will aim in demonstrating the ability of cyberphysical systems in real size...

The purpose of the suggested pre-study is to: a) Identify the current state of the art and to verify applicable and reliable existing methods and technologies for performing localization of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), in underground harsh mining environments and b) identify what fur...

The aim of this project is to survey and analyze the current status of business and technology RDI activities related to elderly telecare services, cheap home robots, smart metering solutions and the stakeholders' needs involved in providing services to seniors living at home. The project is going t...

The aim of this project was to provide the means for supporting the mine operation by a fleet of patrolling robots that could navigate autonomously throughout the mine area and perform multiple tasks that until now are being carried by humans. These robots will be equipped with specific vision and s...