Drilling exploration system based on traveling platform

The drilling exploration system addresses high costs and environmental vulnerabilities by integrating a drilling exploration robot with a magazine robot for continuous deep-sea drilling and geophysical exploration, enhancing efficiency and reducing operation time.

WO2026127231A1 Publication Date: 2026-06-18KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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Authority / Receiving Office
WO · WO
Patent Type
Applications
Current Assignee / Owner
KOREA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Filing Date
2025-05-28
Publication Date
2026-06-18

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⚠Technical Problem

Existing drilling exploration systems for deep-sea mineral resources face challenges such as high costs, long operation times, and vulnerability to marine environment changes due to the need for large equipment and repetitive deployment of geophysical exploration methods, and the inability to perform continuous drilling with a single magazine.

⚗Method used

A drilling exploration system comprising a drilling exploration robot and a magazine robot that supplies and retrieves magazines, allowing continuous drilling operations by minimizing the size of the drilling robot and integrating geophysical exploration methods, reducing the need for large equipment and minimizing environmental risks.

🎯Benefits of technology

The system enables efficient, cost-effective, and continuous drilling operations by integrating geophysical exploration methods, reducing operation time, and minimizing environmental risks through the use of a separate magazine robot for magazine supply and retrieval.

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Abstract

The purpose of the present invention for solving the conventional problems as described above is to provide a drilling exploration system wherein, in a case of deep drilling, a magazine is supplied to and recovered from a drilling exploration robot through a separate magazine robot, the drilling exploration robot having a drilling device mounted on a traveling device, thereby minimizing the size of the drilling exploration robot and enabling continuous drilling regardless of a state of the magazine. To achieve the purpose, the drilling exploration system according to the present invention comprises: at least one drilling exploration robot configured to perform a drilling exploration operation on a seabed; and a magazine robot configured to receive a magazine having an inner barrel containing a sampled specimen from the drilling exploration robot and to provide a magazine having an empty inner barrel or a rod stored therein to the drilling exploration robot.
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