The Professional Masters in Instrumentation, Control, and Automation of Mining Processes aims to propose new ideas applied to processes of exploration and mineral processing. In this sense, we have smart mines and power plants where unmanned vehicles and equipment will be employed and they will be autonomously operated or remotely controlled. The automation of mining processes will increase the operation's security, decreasing the occurrences when relocating rural workers to control rooms, solving problems related to the lack of skilled labor in remote areas, increasing the productivity through the resources optimized application, and, at last decreasing operational and maintenance costs. The program's lines of research are: 1) Instrumentation in the Ores Processing; 2) Analysis and Project of Advanced Control Systems; 3) Information, Communication, and Industrial Automation Technologies; and 4) Robotics Applied to Mining.
