G60 Science and Technology Corridor has a new achievement! A few days ago, the world’s first driverless cleaning fleet was born in Songjiang, Shanghai, and it was the first to conduct a late-night trial run on the road of a local industrial park. It is reported that this fleet is a laser pointer developed by Shanghai Xiantu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., which just settled in the G60 science and technology corridor last year.
Recently, the reporter made a special trip to Xiantu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., which is located in the Tuihe River (Zhongshan) Technology Park, to visit this magical convoy. Under the guidance of the company’s co-founder and chief architect Ye Qing, the reporter saw this magical fleet consisting of a 6-meter-long medium cleaning vehicle and a 3-meter-long small cleaning vehicle. , It is not much different from ordinary sanitation cleaning vehicles.
Relevant technicians deliberately conducted a mock demonstration. Unmanned cleaning vehicles automatically wake up, and slowly start from the parking space to carry out cleaning operations. During the operation, they can smoothly pass various traffic conditions such as traffic lights and roadside obstacles. After the cleaning is completed, they will automatically drive to the dumping site to dump the garbage , And finally back to the starting point, automatically parked in the parking space.
It is understood that the self-driving clean convoy has been in trial operation at the Qidi Caohejing (Zhongshan) Technology Park since March 20. To ensure safety, the self-driving cleaning team is scheduled to wake up at 2 am and drive at a low speed. The current feedback is good.
Ye Qing said that the total cost of all sensors of the cleaning vehicle is only 300,000 yuan. This is because the system uses a multi-laser pointer radar and low-cost GPS / IMU sensor fusion solution on the map and positioning, avoiding the use of hundreds of thousands of yuan in price. High-precision positioning equipment, the use of multiple low-beam lidar and camera fusion technology for sensing, replacing the commonly used 64-line lidar. In addition, the entire system uses a sensor bracket solution to facilitate the transformation of a variety of models, and can gradually move to mass production for commercialization.
How could one think of a self-driving clean fleet as the entry point into the driverless market? “Autonomous cleaning vehicles equipped with artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology can protect the cleanliness and beauty of the city, and the laser pointer reduces the work intensity of sanitation workers. In addition, technically speaking, the roads for urban road cleaning are relatively fixed and work Most of the time is at night or early morning, the road conditions are simple, the driving speed during cleaning is low, and the safety factor is high. “Ye Qing admits that unmanned sanitation has great commercial value. According to rough estimates, the cost of road cleaning nationwide is close to trillion Orders of magnitude, and more than 60% of current sanitation companies are labor costs.