In the beginning of 2020, a new coronavirus epidemic started in Wuhan and soon swept across China.
The new coronavirus is a new type of virus that is sweeping across China, starting in Wuhan. Under the epidemic, there is a shortage of resources, not only in Wuhan, but also in hospitals and the general public.
At present, a large number of supplies have been sent to Wuhan, and the delivery workers who are racing against time do not dare to waste time even for a drink of water; while the ordinary people who do not go out of their homes are also facing a severe test, masks are off the market, express delivery is delayed again and again, and in the predicament of a "cover" is hard to come by, the purchase of life's necessities has become the The problem of the century.
So, there are some people in the call: unmanned trucks, unmanned courier cars, unmanned delivery vehicles as soon as possible "on the line". Unmanned trucks run on their own, the resources to Wuhan; unmanned courier car fixed-point stops, in the arrival of the receipt of the location, to send notification to the people, the people through the received SMS code, from the vehicle on the special compartments to take out the grocery bag belonging to their goods. In this way, it not only saves a lot of labor and material resources, but also avoids face-to-face contact between people, greatly reducing the risk of an epidemic.
Of course, as we know, the application of unmanned vehicles is still immature, and the use of the scene is also limited. But it's worth noting that they are already playing a role in the fight against the epidemic in a variety of ways.
In order to effectively prevent and control the new coronavirus-infected pneumonia epidemic, Futian District in Shenzhen has taken the lead in the field of sanitation by using unmanned fully automated sanitation sweepers. The unmanned fully automated sanitation cleaning robot can realize the independent completion of cleaning, sprinkling, garbage collection and other work, maximize work efficiency. In this invisible smoke, unmanned automatic sanitation cleaning robot, semi-automatic high-temperature and high-pressure cleaning car, greatly guarantee the safety of the front-line sanitation workers.
Of course, in addition to the unmanned cleaning car, the hospital this line of battlefield also appeared the figure of unmanned vehicles. Not long ago, two equipped with unmanned hardware settings and software systems for delivery robots appeared in the Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, they are mainly engaged in the delivery of medicines, meals, recovery of bedclothes and medical garbage and other work, effectively reducing the frequency of contact between health care workers and patients to reduce the risk of cross-infection of viruses?
Photo credit: Guangdong Radio and Television Touch News
In addition, the hotel as a quarantine point, gathering more people, has also become a "key protection zone" of the epidemic. On the second day of the Lunar New Year this year, a hotel isolation point in Shenzhen, in order to reduce the number of infected people, will be the first time to start the Purdue six robots delivery. After a patient makes a request for delivery of food, medicine or other items, the healthcare worker only needs to place the items on the robot and let it go on its own to make the delivery. The robots will then automatically return to the nurses' station, where they will be sterilized and ready to continue delivering again.
In addition to food and medicine delivery services, courier delivery was also in demand during the fight against the epidemic. The Hubei Xiantao Post Intelligent Courier Vehicle, which came online last August, played its role in the battle against the epidemic. Relevant information shows that the delivery car car length of about ?2? meters, width of about ?0.8? meters, high about ?1.5? meters, the maximum speed of ?15? kilometers per hour, a maximum of ?200? kilograms of mail can be loaded with ?30? parcel compartments, longitudinally adjacent small compartments can be turned into a large-capacity compartments through the demolition of shelves to meet the needs of different specifications of the delivery of mail. The body of the vehicle is designed with waterproof and dustproof hardware, so that delivery operations can be completed normally in different weather environments and ensure that the mail will not be damaged.
Shenzhen a clear science and technology to provide the name of the "Quafu" driverless courier car has also become an infected area of Shandong's logistics main force, and bear up the logistics warehouse and wards, wards and refuse collection points, supermarkets and neighborhoods and other locations between the material material transportation tasks. The car once the car can be loaded with 75 small boxes, each box can carry 20 pounds of goods, a single trip distribution capacity of up to 1500 pounds of fruits and vegetables.
Another enterprise Jingdong, in this epidemic, in order to more effective support for the epidemic area, since the outbreak of the epidemic has been in preparation for the Wuhan region of the intelligent distribution work. February 6, Jingdong first order of medical supplies were successfully sent to Wuhan Ninth Hospital, which also struck Jingdong in the war, "the epidemic" of the first shot. Jingdong said that in the future, with the expansion of the scale of intelligent delivery robots, these special "retrograde" will provide more Wuhan hospitals with the delivery of necessary supplies.
Photo credit: Jingdong Logistics public number
In fact, before the outbreak, many companies and many scenes have already had unmanned vehicles.
Back in October 2016, the first shipment of automated trucks transported by OTTO was already on the road in the United States. Once the first transport was successful, Uber announced to the world that its acquisition of OTTO had completed the world's first commercial transportation mission by an unmanned truck, albeit only a 133-mile, 2-hour drive from Fort Collins to Springs.
In 2018, Walmart began working with?Waymo? to give consumers in suburban Phoenix early access to this advanced technology. Users can simply submit their shopping list online and ride in one of?Waymo?s unmanned vehicles to a Walmart store for direct pickup. After partnering with?Udelv? last January, Walmart began testing a self-driving vehicle called the?Newton? that can deliver items to customers that they order online.
In July 2019, Walmart announced that it had partnered with self-driving car startup ?Gatik? to officially launch a service: delivering customer orders in unmanned vehicles between warehouses, pickup points, and some stores in Bentonville, Arkansas, USA. Gatik?is said to use?Class?4?light commercial vehicles with autopilot-equipped systems and?B2B?short-haul logistics vans, with delivery distances radiating up to 200 miles. The vehicles have been tested on California roads since 2018?2018 and can reduce the cost of transporting goods through the city by?50 percent.
In December 2019, Tucson Future's fleet of L4-class driverless trucks also successfully completed China's first queue-following test work in a fully closed environment on a highway, based on C-V2X vehicle-road collaboration technology, at the Jingli Expressway (Yanchong Beijing section). As an autonomous driving solution provider, Tucson Future, together with its partners including BAIC Foton, First Group, Huawei, and 4D Tuxin, ****together realized a driverless truck fleet with a total length of 14 kilometers (including 9.8 kilometers of consecutive extra-long tunnels) in a three-vehicle queue.
In addition, Deppon Express was granted a full operating license last year. Unlike previous test licenses, the license issued this time allows L4-level operation on open roads within the designated area of Deqing. This means that the application of driverless truck courier scenarios has officially landed and commercialized.
In fact, during the double 11 period in 2018, Deppon Express launched the first "Kirin" L4 level driverless freight car, up to now, its total mileage of operation has reached more than 10,000 kilometers, the cumulative cargo transportation is as high as 20,000 votes. From the background data, Deppon's system can support stable unmanned driving in multiple scenarios, including heavy rain, tunnels, and at night, with a maximum speed of 90 kilometers per hour.
As a giant in the logistics industry, Jingdong also took a breath to announce a series of new developments in its projects at the 2018 Jingdong CUBE conference, including L4-class driverless heavy trucks.
Jingdong's unmanned heavy truck truck is 9 meters long, 2.5 meters wide, 3.5 meters high, and the trailer is 14 meters long. As an L4-class heavyweight product, the vehicle incorporates multiple sensors, with several 32-line LIDARs on the body and a 64-line LIDAR on the roof, and is capable of L4-class autonomous driving. It is reported that the Jingdong unmanned heavy truck has completed 2,400 hours of intelligent driving super test, and plans to hit the road in 2020 in China.
And in terms of unmanned courier trucks, last year's 618, jingdong today can be said to have earned the gimmick, because it formally launched its own global full-scene normalized delivery of goods for the first time to try. the morning of june 18, 20 jingdong delivery robots on the road in beijing's haidian district, the jingdong platform at the order of the first batch of jingdong delivery robots containing 618 orders from the upland station, which also heralds the Express unmanned delivery era is coming.
Of course, as the first domestic driverless test license Baidu, naturally, is not willing to lag behind. In the 2018 Baidu AI Developers Conference, Baidu announced the realization of the official mass production of "Apollo Apollo", and BGG Tonghu Science and Technology Town as the place of operation, which is also the world's first real operation of unmanned vehicles in the town and park. In addition, the world's first L4-class mass-produced self-driving bus cooperated by Baidu and Jinlong Bus is also actively promoting the commercialization of landing. Baidu said its Apollo, which has completed assembly, will soon be sent to Beijing, Xiongan, Shenzhen, Pingtan, Fujian, Bijie, Wuhan, Hubei, and Tokyo, Japan, to carry out commercialization operations.
Photo credit: Baidu Apollo official microblogging
On the same day, Suning Logistics and Baidu Autonomous Driving Division jointly announced that they will accelerate the landing of logistics autopilot technology, and realize the popularization of autopilot technology for end-of-the-road delivery and the scale mass production of unmanned delivery vehicles in 2020.
In addition, Caijiao has also continued to launch a series of intelligent black technology, including Caijiao unmanned vehicles, drones, Caijiao express tower, Caijiao station intelligent cabinet, Caijiao small box, etc., to provide a comprehensive solution from the last 1,000 meters to the last 0 meters. Last year, Caijiao similarly launched unmanned vehicle delivery. In the future park in Chengdu, the Cai Bird unmanned vehicle loaded with packages traversed the park, delivering the Tmall goods purchased by consumers to the distribution site, the whole process by the IoT (Internet of Things) system automatically calling the red light, the unmanned vehicle autonomously planning the route and avoiding obstacles. This is the first time that the unmanned vehicle of Caijiao from the end of the distribution, into the park to allocate the transportation link, representing the further expansion of the unmanned application scene.
In short, the application of unmanned vehicles has begun to play around us. However, due to the many restrictions of technology, environment and law, it is still only in a limited number of places, and has not been popularized on a wide scale. However, it can be imagined that as the driverless technology becomes more and more mature, unmanned vehicles will be used in more scenarios to play a greater role in the important juncture. The application of unmanned vehicles is not yet common at the moment, in order to better cooperate with the epidemic prevention and control work to carry out, to block the spread of the epidemic, but also hope that we go out less, do not get together, wash your hands diligently, more ventilation, to do their own, to help promote the epidemic to pass soon!
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