파일럿 채광로봇 미내로 집광성능 분석

Abstract

This paper concern about the mining performance analysis of pilot mining robot, MineRoTM. The MineRo has been developed in scale of 1/5 of the commercial capacity. MineRo crawls on the seafloor by four tracks and sweeps the nodules from seafloor by nodule pick-up device. At first the pick-up device is designed and manufactured by hybrid(mechanical + hydraulic) type in 2007. And then Hydraulic type of pick-up device is designed and manufactured with the object of back-up of hybrid type. The performance test of pick-up device is carried out in deep-sea mining laboratory and shallow water.floor by nodule pick-up device. At first the pick-up device is designed and manufactured by hybrid(mechanical + hydraulic) type in 2007. And then Hydraulic type of pick-up device is designed and manufactured with the object of back-up of hybrid type. The performance test of pick-up device is carried out in deep-sea mining laboratory and shallow water.