ALROSA’s CEO Pavel Marinychev spoke at the VIII International Baikal Risk Forum (BRIF`24) about the challenges associated with the use of artificial intelligence in mining.
The head of the diamond mining company shared his experience of using robotic equipment in underground mining, spoke about the difficulties of training industrial models of artificial intelligence and the opportunities that their implementation opens up.
According to ALROSA’s CEO, the explosive growth of computing power and volumes of processed data over the past decade opens up wide opportunities for the use of artificial intelligence in industrial production.
“The prerequisites for the use of artificial intelligence and robotics at our enterprise are due to the mineral resource base - the world has run out of “easy” diamonds, so in order to mine them, we have to go deeper and deeper underground,” Marinychev noted.
The company has developed an autonomous control system for a quarry crusher - a unit for crushing oversized pieces of ore - and implemented it at the Udachny underground mine at a depth of more than 1 km. This is the world's first hydraulic robot with machine vision and artificial intelligence control, operating in dusty conditions and in poor visibility. According to the head of ALROSA, this allows the company to ensure the safety of personnel involved in mining operations, as well as reduce production costs.
Theodor Lisovoy, Managing Editor, Rough&Polished
