Low-speed unmanned vehicles are collectively fighting the epidemic! Sweeping and killing to take temperature, delivering medicine and groceries is really warm-hearted

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In the beginning of 2020, a new coronary pneumonia epidemic caused by a new coronary virus, spreading throughout the country.

In order to win this war without smoke, all kinds of automobile and travel-related industries, including OEMs and parts companies, donate money and goods to show their love, and at the same time, grasp the production of negative pressure ambulances, unmanned delivery vehicles and other practical products, and put them on the front line of the fight against the epidemic.

Faced with urgent orders for negative-pressure ambulances issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, traditional domestic automobile enterprises, including JLF, Chery Riviera and Fujian Benz, started work in advance and worked overtime during the New Year period, compressing the production cycle of a negative-pressure ambulance from 20 to 30 days to about 10 days, thus providing a strong guarantee for avoiding the virus from secondary infection.

Meanwhile, during the outbreak, a line of defense consisting of low-speed unmanned vehicles (various types of autonomous robots equipped with unmanned technology) could be seen.

The new coronavirus relies heavily on respiratory droplets and contact transmission, so fine planning is also needed to reduce contact between people and to sanitize public **** spaces.

Fortunately, unmanned food delivery vehicles, unmanned distribution vehicles, and unmanned disinfection vehicles empowered by driverless technology have become an important force on the front lines of the fight against the epidemic, acting as four major roles: disinfection vehicles, indoor distribution vehicles, outdoor logistics vehicles, and patrol vehicles for public **** occasions.

A dozen low-speed unmanned vehicle companies, including Baidu, Jingdong, Gaoxian Robotics, Cool Wow Robotics, Smart Walker, Harness Technology, etc., are involved in the fight against the epidemic, and at least hundreds of various low-speed unmanned vehicles can be seen in Wuhan, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Qingdao, as well as in other cities in Hubei Province, participating in work related to the fight against the epidemic.

To a certain extent, it can be said that almost all low-speed unmanned vehicle companies have participated in this anti-epidemic operation, and while contributing to the fight against the epidemic, they have also demonstrated to the outside world and the public the development results and application scenarios of unmanned vehicle technology, which has played a good role in promoting the subsequent deployment of low-speed unmanned vehicles.

▲Put into the epidemic prevention and control work of the low-speed unmanned vehicles

I. Rising to the occasion? Traditional car companies to expedite the production of negative pressure ambulance

Negative pressure ambulance is also known as the "mobile N95 mask", and medical protective clothing, N95 masks, medical goggles, as is an important line of defense to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus.

▲Negative pressure ambulance belongs to the key medical emergency prevention and control materials

Compared with the ordinary ambulance, the negative pressure ambulance's most important feature is the word "negative pressure".

The negative-pressure device is equipped with a negative-pressure device, which allows the air to flow from the high pressure area to the low pressure area, so that the air can only flow from the outside of the car to the inside of the car, and the air inside of the car needs to go through a harmless treatment beforehand, so as to avoid the secondary infection.

At the same time, the isolated medical cabin inside the vehicle can form a fixed air flow field inside the cabin, which can help avoid cross-infection between doctors and patients and provide better protection for medical personnel.

▲Fujian Benz's Vito negative pressure ambulance interior

▲Fujian Benz's Vito negative pressure ambulance interior

It is worth noting that the production of negative pressure ambulance includes the manufacture of the base car and modification of the two parts, and the equipment on the car involves a variety of parts and components of the supply, and thus the production of a negative pressure ambulance is also a long cycle, the ordinary situation needs to spend 20 to 30 days or so. It takes about 20 to 30 days to produce a negative pressure ambulance.

However, with the current outbreak of the epidemic and the urgent need for patient assistance and transportation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) did not have enough production time when it issued the first batch of 200 negative-pressure ambulances to the country on Jan. 24, which is the first time the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has issued a production order to the country. BAIC Foton received the production task of 25 negative pressure ambulances, while the production time was from Jan. 24 to Feb. 5, ****13 days.

▲Beijing Automobile Works (BAIC) Foton received a letter on the production task of negative-pressure ambulances (Source: Internet)

In this case, traditional car companies, including JLF, Chirri Riviera, Fujian Benz and BAIC Foton, chose to start their work in advance, working overtime to produce negative-pressure ambulances, and the original 20- to 30-day schedule was compressed to about 10 days.

▲Jiangling Ford Transit Negative Pressure Ambulance

On February 1, two Transit Negative Pressure Ambulances urgently produced by Jiangling Ford first went to the front line of the anti-epidemic campaign in Wuhan. Two days later, the second batch of 18 negative-pressure ambulances were sent from Nanchang and put into the transfer of patients in Vulcan Mountain Hospital in the evening.

After that, JFW delivered another 67 negative pressure ambulances on February 12th. These negative pressure ambulances were transported to Wuhan by a special train, and from February 13th, they began to take charge of the transfer of patients with new coronary pneumonia in the key epidemic areas in Hubei.

▲Jiangsu Suzu Ford Transit negative-pressure ambulance

Meanwhile, on Feb. 5, 20 negative-pressure ambulances produced by Chirri Ruifu also rolled off the production line and completed delivery after more than 10 days of rush work.

According to Ke Chuandeng, general manager of Chirriver, the company made an emergency deployment on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year to notify employees. By the second day of the New Year, Chery Ruifu's ambulance production line and parts production line were officially opened.

▲Chirriver's negative-pressure ambulance

▲Chirriver's staff is producing the negative-pressure ambulance

On February 6, the negative-pressure ambulance, which is based on a modified Foton Tuyano model, went to Leishenshan Hospital. It is reported that up to now, BAIC Foton has delivered more than 100 negative pressure ambulances to the epidemic-hit areas. In addition, two Vito negative pressure ambulances produced by Fujian Benz have also been transported to the front line of the epidemic, and were donated to Wuhan Vulcan and Leishenshan hospitals respectively.

▲Foton Tuyano negative pressure ambulance

▲Fujian Benz's Vito negative pressure ambulance

The second, on-site disinfection? Hospitals and isolation sites deployed on unmanned disinfection vehicles

Although the new coronavirus is highly infectious, according to the "New Coronavirus Pneumonia Diagnostic and Treatment Program (Trial Fifth Edition?)," the virus is still a major threat to the health of the population. Revised), the virus is still preventable and controllable.

The novel coronavirus is sensitive to ultraviolet light and heat, while it can also be effectively inactivated by animal solvents such as 56 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes, ether, 75 percent ethanol, chlorine disinfectants, peracetic acid and chloroform.

In other words, disinfection in hospitals, hotel isolation points and other public **** spaces is important to cut off airborne, contact transmission of both viruses.

In this case, unmanned disinfection vehicles produced by technology companies including Gaoxian Robotics and Shanghai Titanium Meter Robotics also have a place.

1, Gaoxian robot to help Beijing Hospital to fight the epidemic

January 2020, Gaoxian commercial cleaning robot Ecobot?Scrubber?75/50 into the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College Hospital Hospital hospitals the two unmanned disinfection car affectionately called "big strong" and "small fat". The hospital affectionately called these two unmanned sterilization vehicles "big strong" and "small fat".

It was reported that according to the needs of different scenes in the hospital, Big Strong (Gaoxian Robot 75) was arranged to clean the floor in the outpatient building, while Little Fatty (Gaoxian Robot 50) was assigned to dust-push the terrazzo crystallized floor.

▲Left and right are Gaoxian Robot 75 and Gaoxian Robot 50, respectively

During the epidemic, these two cleaning and disinfecting unmanned vehicles were able to complete unmanned cleaning quickly and accurately, reducing the risk of cross-infection among personnel in the property management department of the Union Hospital.

Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine's main hospital also deployed the unmanned disinfection vehicle of Gaoxian Robotics, which provides a supplement to manual disinfection by carrying out cleaning and virus elimination work on the floor and fa?ade through the unmanned disinfection vehicle.

2, nearly 60 sets of titanium meter robot unmanned disinfection car into the work of hospitals around the world

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, as of as of February 12, Shanghai titanium meter robot has put nearly 60 sets of unmanned disinfection car to hospitals around the country.

Now, the unmanned disinfection vehicles produced by Shanghai Titanium Meter Robotics have been helping people to disinfect on the battlefields at the forefront of the outbreak, such as Wuhan Central Hospital's Houhu Campus, Wuhan Union Medical College Hospital, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, the Fifth People's Hospital of Wuxi, the Sixth People's Hospital of Wenzhou City, Shanghai Renji and so on.

Among them, at the Wuhan Union Hospital, the unmanned disinfection vehicles produced by Titanium Meter Robotics were used in both the Emergency Department and the Hematology ICU.

It is understood that these unmanned disinfection vehicle can along the path of movement of health care workers, patients, using progressive disinfection mode, 24-hour cycle of fixed-point disinfection. Meanwhile, unmanned disinfection vehicles working in hematology ICUs can carry out 24-hour, multi-point, timed disinfection by using a multi-point disinfection model.

3, Wuniu intelligent unmanned disinfection vehicle into Shandong hospitals

January 31, 2020, Qingdao Wuniu intelligent engineers into the hospital attached to Qingdao University Hospital, West Coast Hospital District of infectious disease isolation area, after nearly five hours of equipment debugging and optimization, the first unmanned disinfection vehicle from the Wuniu Intelligence formally on duty.

▲Low-speed unmanned disinfection vehicle produced by Wuniu Intelligence

Wuniu Intelligence is not specializing in the production of medical unmanned disinfection vehicle, before the outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, the intelligent, unmanned technology in the field of agricultural production is the high-tech small and medium-sized enterprises in the field of deep ploughing.

According to media reports, Yin Benqiang, general manager of Wuniu Intelligence, after learning that unmanned vehicles were needed in hospital quarantine areas to carry out disinfection work, he summoned the company's staff to work overtime for research and development, modification, and changing roles to produce unmanned disinfection vehicles used for epidemic prevention and control.

It is reported that from January 31, Wuniu intelligent technicians have gone to a number of hospitals in Shandong to install unmanned disinfection in the isolation area of the diagnosed patients, that is, Wuniu intelligent unmanned disinfection robots, and one after another in Qingdao Maternal and Child Children's Hospital, Rizhao People's Hospital, Shandong Chest Hospital and other deployments of nearly 30 units of low-speed unmanned disinfection vehicle, virus and bacteria elimination operations.

4, formerly known as snail white unmanned cleaning and disinfection vehicle

The unmanned cleaning and disinfection vehicle deployed by Smartwalker was formerly known as the company's star product, unmanned cleaning vehicle snail white.

Wisewalker, founded in 2015, is developing products such as low-speed unmanned delivery vehicles and unmanned sweeping vehicles, as well as L4-level autonomous driving technology for passenger cars.

During the epidemic, Smartwalker announced that it will equip 1-2 unmanned sweeping and disinfecting vehicles/unmanned delivery vehicles for each of the 16 key hospitals nationwide that receive patients with new coronary pneumonia.

It is reported that the unmanned sweeping vehicle is equipped with a large spraying device at the original sprinkling function, thus enabling a larger full-coverage spraying disinfection.

The unmanned cleaning and disinfecting vehicle of Smartwalker is now operating in hospital scenes such as Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai Proton Heavy Ion Hospital, and the isolation area of a new coronary pneumonia patient intake.

The unmanned cleaning and disinfecting vehicle deployed by Smart Walker

The unmanned cleaning and disinfecting vehicle in a hospital where patients with new cases of coronary artery disease are being held in quarantine

5, outside of hospitals

After Feb. 10, companies started to resume work one after the other, and various parks, office buildings and other public ****spaces need to be disinfected, which have made the scene of unmanned disinfecting vehicles. The car is working on the place.

(1) New Stone's unmanned disinfection vehicle can carry out full road disinfection

Shanghai's Zhangjiang Artificial Intelligence Island, New Stone's unmanned disinfection vehicle will carry out full road disinfection three times a day at regular intervals.

The unmanned vehicle is said to be able to carry 160 liters of disinfectant, and after a simple debugging, it can be turned on in self-propelled spray disinfection mode.

▲Newstone's unmanned disinfection vehicle

According to the speed of 5 kilometers per hour, the road on Shanghai's Zhangjiang Artificial Intelligence Island can be fully covered and disinfected in about half an hour, which greatly improves the efficiency of disinfection.

At the same time, the vehicle also has a monitoring function that can warn of violations of anti-epidemic regulations, such as not wearing masks and people gathering.

On Feb. 4, two unmanned disinfection vehicles produced by Xinshiqi were shipped to Wuhan to join the front-line epidemic prevention work.

(2) YOGO spray disinfection unmanned vehicles: technological epidemic prevention after the resumption of work

Another robotics startup, YOGO?ROBOT, is providing spray disinfection robots and unmanned delivery robot systems in this epidemic prevention campaign, and these low-speed unmanned vehicles will be providing services in Shenzhen's Star River WORLD Park.

▲YOGO spraying unmanned vehicles

There are more than 700 companies and 25,000 people in the entire park of Star River WORLD, and with the first round of resumption of work during the epidemic across the country, how to efficiently complete the disinfection work inside the buildings while reducing the gathering of people has become a big problem.

It is reported that YOGO spray disinfection unmanned vehicle using Giamba disinfectant, atomization height of up to 2 meters, 100 square meters of space disinfection in just 3 minutes, than the artificial disinfection range is larger, more efficient, thus better solving the problem.

In addition, the YOGO unmanned vehicle can also help with delivery, which can deliver four orders at a time, helping to solve the problem of crowdedness and virus transmission during the lunch rush.

Three, indoor delivery vehicles have many uses? Delivering meals and medicines is not too tired

Unmanned food delivery vehicles in the new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention war is not a low rate of appearance, in fact, in hospitals and isolation points and other high-risk areas of viral infection, unmanned food delivery vehicles in the realization of contact-free delivery of meals at the same time, but also be able to complete the delivery of medicines, recycling of medical waste and other related work.

1, Guangdong Hospital's new employees - unmanned food delivery vehicles "Pingping", "Anan"

January 29, by the Guangzhou Saitech Intelligent Research and Development of the unmanned On January 29, the unmanned food delivery vehicles "Pingping" and "Anan" developed by Guangzhou SAT Intelligence were officially launched in the infectious disease ward of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital.

The two low-speed unmanned food delivery vehicles are integrated with driverless technology, capable of autonomously recognizing and reading maps and information about the working environment, establishing an information base, carrying out autonomous path planning, and ultimately completing point-to-point delivery work.

In hospitals, Pingping and Anan will take over some of the work of delivering medicines and meals, as well as recycling bedclothes and medical waste, thus reducing the risk of cross-infection.

Not only that, but the two unmanned food delivery vehicles can reportedly open and close doors, ride elevators, and charge batteries autonomously through intelligent scheduling at the control center, as well as conduct real-time image monitoring and interaction with the patient area, with the support of a total solution for intelligent delivery (RIDS).

2, unmanned food delivery vehicles to support the first-line infected areas

February 7, 2020, Purdue Technology's delivery of unmanned vehicles into the first-line infected areas of the People's Hospital of Wuhan University to start work.

It is reported that at present, the robotics company Purdue Technology has deployed delivery unmanned vehicles in Hubei's Huanggang Central Hospital, Huanggang Huangzhou Tongji Hospital, Chibi People's Hospital, and Chibi Pufang Hospital, and these delivery unmanned vehicles will provide infected or quarantined people in the hospitals with basic delivery services such as delivering meals and medicines.

▲Meal delivery robot delivers supplies at Huanggang Central Hospital in Hubei

After picking up the supplies from a fixed location such as a nurse's station, the unmanned vehicle will deliver the supplies on its own to the door of the isolation room and make a voice announcement to remind patients to take them. After completing the task, the unmanned vehicle will automatically return to its original location and be sterilized. The whole process avoids direct contact between healthcare workers and quarantined people.

In fact, there was once a front-line installer of Purdue Technology said that in the anti-epidemic process, this distribution unmanned vehicle not only reduces the contact between personnel and forms an effective protection for healthcare workers, but also automates a lot of trivial distribution work, which reduces the work intensity of nurses and caregivers.

Four, unmanned logistics car running errands fast? A trip can pull 1500 pounds of vegetables

1, Changsha Xiantao deployment of intelligent courier car

According to media reports, by the line of deep intelligent production of intelligent unmanned delivery car "Han Ma" since January 26, began to undertake the delivery of Hubei Province Xiantao City Government and directly under the units in the area of the task.

During the epidemic, the intelligent unmanned delivery vehicle was able to deliver material mail twice in the morning and twice in the afternoon, each time delivering 20 to 30 pieces of mail.

Interestingly, this is not the first time the smart unmanned delivery vehicle has worked on the road.

The unmanned delivery vehicle was officially put into operation back on Sept. 2, 2019, after a 10-day trial run.

It is reported that the length, width and height of the body of the intelligent unmanned delivery vehicle are about 2 meters, 0.8 meters and 1.5 meters, respectively, with a maximum speed of 15 kilometers per hour and 30 parcel compartments. Vertical adjacent parcel compartments can also be disassembled to expand the capacity to meet the different specifications of the mail delivery needs.

2, low-speed unmanned vehicles Shandong send vegetables busy? Once can send 1500 pounds

Since February 7, a clear and innovative unmanned logistics vehicle began to work in Shandong, for the urban delivery of vegetables, and its each car can deliver 1500 pounds of vegetables and fruits in a single trip.

▲Unmanned Logistics Vehicle

The whole delivery process starts with the staff putting the vegetables on the unmanned logistics vehicle and choosing the destination of the unmanned vehicle through the cell phone APP, such as hospitals, schools and canteens, and then the unmanned logistics vehicle will depart from the vegetable transfer station to complete the delivery.

▲Yiqing innovative unmanned vehicle operator remote driving mode

It is understood that the unmanned vehicle can realize a series of operations such as autonomously and intelligently planning the path, detecting obstacles and then avoiding them. At the same time, taking into account the unexpected conditions that may occur on the way of delivery, a clear innovation also made a technical backup, through the operator's remote driving mode to help the unmanned vehicle to complete the work successfully.

In terms of assisting in the fight against the epidemic, Yicheng Innovation has already reached an agreement with a hospital in Shenzhen to undertake the hospital's material distribution tasks.

3, Jingdong in Wuhan deployment of unmanned delivery vehicles

February 6, Wuhan City, Qingshan District, Jilin Street, by the Jingdong Logistics independent research and development of intelligent delivery robots from the Jingdong Logistics Renhe station, in the street along the drive and through the construction of the second intersection of the road, after the car's medical supplies were delivered to the Wuhan Ninth Hospital successfully.

▲Jingdong Logistics intelligent delivery robot

Jingdong Logistics Wuhan Renhe station and Wuhan Ninth Hospital distance of about 600 meters, according to the Jingdong Logistics intelligent delivery robot to complete the delivery of supplies is also the outbreak of Wuhan region after the first single intelligent delivery.

At present, in addition to drawing off distribution robots from all over the world to support Wuhan, Jingdong Logistics intelligent distribution stations in Guiyang, Hohhot and other places are also operating normally.

4, Harness Technology has completed two unmanned delivery prototypes

Artificial intelligence startup Harness Technology is yet another tech company investing in unmanned delivery.

▲Harness Technology's unmanned distribution vehicle

At present, Harness Technology has completed two unmanned distribution vehicle prototypes based on the self-developed U-Drive intelligent driving system, and these unmanned distribution vehicles will be targeted at hospitals, communities, factories and workshops, industrial parks, office buildings, schools and other closed scenarios, to undertake contactless delivery of medical supplies, courier takeaway The work of the fixed-point delivery and so on.

On top of that, the unmanned delivery vehicles will also be able to conduct safety inspections in isolated areas or closed communities.

Five, public **** space watchman? Sweeping temperature patrol what will

1, unmanned sweeper: public **** space automatic sweeper

Epidemic current, in addition to individuals to do a good job of protection, including bus stops, the street garbage cans, handrail railings, including the public **** facilities are also in urgent need of disinfection. However, at present, the disinfection work belonging to the public **** space is mainly done by the sanitation workers responsible for daily cleaning.

Like healthcare workers and traffic police, sanitation workers are also retrograde workers working on the frontline of the fight against the epidemic and need better protection.

In this case, the smart sanitation projects deployed by Cool Wow Robotics in Changsha, Chengdu, Wuhu, Deqing and Zhuhai come into play.

It is understood that through the cooperation of intelligent driving and mechanical operation, it can reduce the number of sanitation workers working. Secondly, cleaning through smart driving sanitation vehicles can avoid and reduce the risk of sanitation workers contracting viruses, while freeing them from their daily cleaning work and allowing them to better focus on disinfection.

2, high-emerging modified unmanned vehicles for patrolling temperature measurement

If you have recently traveled by plane or have been to squares, hospitals and other areas with high foot traffic, then you may have seen high-emerging 5G patrolling temperature measurement unmanned vehicles.

This 5G patrol vehicle, formerly known as Gao Xinxing's 5G patrol vehicle, has been upgraded with a temperature measurement and monitoring system for the outbreak. The infrared temperature measurement function currently used for temperature measurement and screening is based on the original anti-smoke function of the previous patrol unmanned vehicle after system debugging.

In addition, high emerging 5G temperature patrol unmanned vehicle up and down the left and right **** the use of five high-definition cameras, to achieve a panoramic view of the dead angle 24-hour monitoring. At the same time, it is also able to transmit different monitoring data, such as infrared thermography, to the background in real time, thus helping the monitors to better grasp the situation on the spot and carry out on-site scheduling.

It is understood that the high emerging 5G temperature measurement patrol machine unmanned vehicle can realize infrared 5 meters within the rapid measurement of body temperature, and at the same time measure the body temperature of 10 people. At present, this temperature measurement patrol unmanned vehicle has been deployed in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Handan, Hangzhou, Guiyang, Nanning, Ningbo and other cities, and is used in high-speed railways, airports, public security, hospitals and other scenes.

Conclusion: Support the anti-epidemic? Technology in Action

In this nationwide epidemic blocking war, personnel are vulnerable to infection, coupled with the special period of indoor and outdoor pedestrian and vehicular traffic is less, low-speed unmanned vehicles have become the best anti-epidemic tools.

We can see that a large number of related companies, including Baidu, Jingdong, Gaoxian Robotics, Cool Wow Robotics, Smart Walker, Xinshiqi, Harnessing Technology, YOGO Robotics, etc., are involved in the fight against the epidemic, and there is a feeling that the low-speed unmanned vehicle industry has collectively rushed to the front line.

In the process, while contributing to the fight against the epidemic, they also showed the development results and application scenarios of unmanned technology to the outside world and the public, and played a good role in promoting the subsequent deployment of low-speed unmanned vehicles.

But it should also be seen that the working scenarios and functions of these unmanned vehicles are still relatively simple, but the future is promising, and it is believed that as the technology continues to progress, more unmanned vehicles will appear to help people live better.

In the end, it is hoped that the new Crown pneumonia epidemic, will pass sooner rather than later.

This article comes from the authors of the Motor Home Car Family, and does not represent the viewpoint position of the Motor Home.