my country's first deep-sea mining vehicle is about to undergo sea trials: it can complete autonomous walking through navigation path planning

It is reported that This deep-sea polymetallic sulfide mining vehicle is 8.2 meters long, 3.9 meters wide, 3.5 meters high, and weighs 21 tons in air , breakthroughs in key technologies such as automatic directional control of underwater deployment and recovery attitude, deep-water high-power hydraulic drive, signal transmission and intelligent control, and three-dimensional digital twin visualization.

At the same time, engineers developed an oscillating milling excavating head, a four-track suspension frame and an integrated system with autonomous walking function Control system, The mining vehicle can complete autonomous walking through navigation and path planning.

China State Shipbuilding Corporation stated that deep sea mining is an important part of my country’s deep sea strategy, and China’s marine science and technology is accelerating its progress from “deep sea entry” and “deep sea exploration” to “deep sea development” .

Deep-sea polymetallic sulfide is a deep-sea mineral resource rich in copper, zinc, iron, lead and precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum group and other metals. The amount of metal resources is more than 600 times that of known massive sulfide reserves of volcanic origin on land. Copper resources can last for more than 6,000 years at the current production rate.