On February 10, most of the country resumed work and production. According to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), in addition to Hubei Province, the other 30 provinces have been deployed to arrange for the resumption of work and production, but the inflection point of the epidemic is not yet clear, the situation is still grim, and the prevention and control of the epidemic is still the top priority of all of our current work. It is understood that, such as Beijing, most of the office building is still on the personnel in and out of control, at the same time, there are still some units choose to online office, in order to reduce the flow of personnel and contact.
According to the National Health Commission data statistics, February 10, 0-24 hours, the country outside of Hubei, 381 new confirmed cases, the seventh consecutive day of a downward trend, which can be seen nationwide, large and small communities, neighborhoods, the implementation of closed management play a small role. In the face of the highly contagious, long incubation period of the disease, take the initiative to reduce the frequency of going out, reduce human contact is the obligation of every citizen.
Reducing human contact, unmanned distribution into the best solution
Recently, the country's many places to appear unmanned vehicles "on the job" scene, the scale is also known as the largest ever.
On February 10th, the first sanitation and disinfection robot in Jiangxi Province, the driverless disinfection vehicle, arrived at Poyang and was delivered to the urban management department for disinfection and elimination of communities and urban villages. According to the staff of Poyang County Sanitation Department, the unmanned vehicle can effectively reduce the infection of sanitation workers in the infected area and reduce the chance of contact, and it can completely enter the infected area and drive according to the map route it designed beforehand to disinfect.
The disinfection vehicle is electrically powered, with a range of 8 hours, a full load of 1.2 tons of disinfectant water, and it takes only a few minutes to fill it up, so it can carry out all-around, no-death-angle elimination of communities and urban villages, which can effectively reduce the risk of infection for the operators.
Shenzhen Futian District also took the lead in using unmanned fully automated sanitation sweepers during the outbreak. The unmanned full-automatic sanitation cleaning robot can realize the independent completion of cleaning, sprinkling, garbage collection and other work, maximize work efficiency. In this invisible smoke, unmanned fully automatic sanitation cleaning robot, semi-automatic high temperature and high pressure cleaning vehicle, greatly protect the safety of front-line sanitation workers.
In Zibo, Shandong Province, a logistics company also for the first time on the unmanned distribution car trial run, unmanned distribution car loaded with nearly 1 ton of fresh vegetables, driving 2 kilometers away from the destination. After arriving at the designated location of automatic parking, unloading, the unmanned car and automatically return to the place of departure, and continuously complete the ?4?times the vegetable distribution. According to reports, the unmanned delivery vehicle called "Xiaole" has a range of 150 kilometers and can deliver more than 10 tons of vegetables per day.
With the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic prevention work into the offensive stage, unmanned vegetable distribution can effectively reduce the risk of infection brought about by human contact, non-contact distribution, while greatly reducing the consumption of epidemic prevention materials and labor costs.
In the core area of the epidemic, Wuhan, unmanned vehicles are playing a huge role. on February 6, Jingdong Logistics' intelligent distribution robot completed its first delivery in Wuhan, successfully transporting medical and living supplies from Jingdong Logistics Wuhan Renhe Station to Wuhan Ninth Hospital, which is the designated hospital for new coronavirus infection pneumonia in Wuhan, the core area of the epidemic.
The two newly commissioned hospitals, Vulcan Mountain and Thunder Mountain, are not only equipped with ?5G? network coverage, but also with a telemedicine platform, a remote video visitation system, and likewise with equipment such as a 5G intelligent vehicle and a delivery service robot.
To reduce the workload of medical staff and minimize the risk of exposure to infections, low-speed self-driving carts and robots have been introduced into the two hospitals to take on some of the patient transportation and delivery duties, including transporting patients, transmitting labs, medicines and patient meals.
Special times, unmanned vehicles may take over the outbreak
Not long ago, Xiaopeng Automobile Chairman He Xiaopeng put forward the idea on microblogging, in the face of a major disaster may be able to design a powerful unmanned vehicle, both as a temporary residence, but also able to provide the necessary support. In response, many netizens left comments endorsing his idea.
In fact, the concept of unmanned has been commonplace, such as unmanned reconnaissance aircraft on the defense industry, explosive ordnance disposal vehicles, unclogging pipeline robots, medical surgical robots and so on. And the real application to the civilian is also a matter of recent years, with the continuous development of the future of science and technology, "unmanned" technology will be a substantial replacement for human to complete some dangerous, human impossible to complete the task.
February 10, Baidu Apollo announced that it will open low-speed micro-vehicle kits and autonomous driving cloud services free of charge to companies serving the epidemic, accelerating the application of autonomous driving products, joining hands with ecological partners, to support the prevention and control of the epidemic, and its open technology resources will mainly contain two parts:
First, the Apollo platform is open to low-speed automated driving micro-vehicle kits, the kits contain hardware solutions, software and corresponding services. First, Apollo platform open low-speed automatic driving micro-vehicle kit, kit contains hardware solutions, software and corresponding services to support the automatic driving application for the anti-epidemic operating vehicles; Baidu commitment during the epidemic, the use of low-speed automatic driving micro-vehicle kit service epidemic enterprises to provide free technical adaptation and supply chain support.
Secondly, during the epidemic, self-driving operating vehicle enterprises targeting anti-epidemic scenarios can obtain free support from Baidu's Apollo platform for the matrix of self-driving cloud services, including but not limited to high-precision maps, simulation, vehicle calibration, data annotation, sensor calibration, remote monitoring, cloud storage/computing and other key cloud services.
As early as February 4 this year, two unmanned logistics carts from Apollo eco-partner Xinshiqi were dispatched to Wuhan to actively participate in the epidemic prevention work. on February 6, Xinshiqi and Zhiweiqi as Apollo eco-partners sent out their respective unmanned logistics carts and unmanned cleaning and disinfecting carts, which have already arrived at the quarantine point in Beijing, and in the future, can be used for quarantine area The vehicle can be used in the quarantine area for independent cleaning and disinfection and food delivery services.
In addition, technicians from Baidu's Apollo ecosystem partner Qingdao Wuniu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. have been traveling to the forefront of the outbreak since Jan. 31, deploying unmanned disinfectant robots in the isolation zones of hospitals for confirmed patients. According to statistics, it has successively donated and deployed nearly 30 self-driving spray disinfection robots in Qingdao Qingdao University Hospital, Rizhao People's Hospital, and Shandong Chest Hospital to carry out elimination operations without compensation.
Also in order to effectively protect the health of healthcare workers, Apollo ecological partner Zhongke Wisdom successively launched three epidemic monitoring systems, including community personnel epidemic prevention and AEB system with body temperature detection. Among them, the AEB system with body temperature detection can be used in commercial vehicles (operating vehicles, buses, etc.) to monitor human body temperature in real time inside the vehicle or at the front and rear doors, and will exceed the normal human body temperature alarm and record data.
Red dot comment:
From the dining area to the infected area, from the delivery of food and medicine to measure the temperature to the delivery of outdoor supplies, robots, unmanned vehicles can do things far beyond our imagination. If we can use robots to replace human beings to take some high risks, less "the most beautiful retrograde person" and parting, then human beings will witness more beautiful.
This active participation in the front line of the epidemic has also given unmanned vehicles this future technology brush full of public goodwill, but also for the future government to introduce more supportive policies to provide a myriad of reasonable motives. The outbreak of the epidemic may just be the opportunity to boost driverless technology.
This article comes from the authors of Automobile House Car Family, and does not represent the viewpoint position of Automobile House.