This presentation covers the research program for the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Integrated Operations for Complex Resources (ARC ITTC IOCR), an $11.5M, four-year program comprising three university partners (University of Adelaide, University of South Australia, Curtin University), two end-user mining companies (BHP and OZ Minerals) and 19 METS companies and other organisations.
The Training Centre will deliver the enabling tools – advanced sensors, data analytics and artificial intelligence – for automated, integrated and optimised mining. It will train the next generation of engineers and scientists in developing and applying these enabling tools, which are knowledge priorities for the mining industry.
Automating a mine requires integrating all stages of the mining and processing system so that intelligence across the value chain can automatically be generated, delivered and exploited. This is a complex, inter-disciplinary systems problem that requires an inter-disciplinary, as opposed to a multi-disciplinary, approach and includes researchers from mining engineering, mineral processing, geology, physics, chemical engineering, mathematics, computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and chemistry.