In cooperation with several French and German partners the 'Institut für Maschinenwesen im Baubetrieb' is developing a manganese nodule mining system. The essential part of this mining system is a mobile collector to pick up manganese nodules in sea-depth of 5000 m and more. To guarantee high mobility, the collector is running on crawlers. To analyse their efficiency, several components of the collector, in the first place the pick up mechanism and the crawlers were tested. A further task is the design and development of a controlling and automation system to operate the collector mon the sea bottom. In working areas with difficult and unpredictible surface conditions, which can not be programmed for controlled operation (open loop), a special path control by skid/slip control of the crawler (closed loop) will be provided.
Manganese nodule deep sea mining
Tiefseebergbau von Manganknollen
1991
10 Seiten, 7 Bilder
Conference paper
English
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