For Tucson, the provision of L4 unmanned trucks and unmanned transport solutions for high-speed scenarios and container trucks in the port can reduce logistics transportation and operating costs, solve the shortage of truck drivers, and reduce the incidence of traffic accidents. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing air pollution. The commercialization of autopilot in certain scenarios has become a reality in this spring of frequent autopilot accidents.
Uber automatic driving test vehicle death caused widespread concern in the industry.
For a time, many companies involved in the autopilot test business, such as Toyota and Nvidia, announced that they temporarily suspended the road test of self-driving cars.
As the first technology company in China based on artificial intelligence L4 automatic trucking trucks, Tucson officially announced today (April 3rd) that the world’s first self-owned vehicle-based port container truck fleet autopilot test will be officially launched. Video, and announced that it will enter the driverless transportation market for container trucks in Hong Kong, and carry out large-scale road test and commercial trial operation in 2018-2019 to prepare for full commercialization by 2020.
Tuosheng future COO Dr. Hao Jianan said: 'Because of Tucson's future leading high-speed container truck unmanned technology research and development and testing experience, after months of unmanned truck fleet in a deepwater container port in the North is confidential. In the future, Tucson has completed the solution of the container terminal transshipment fleet in the unmanned dock that perfectly integrates with the existing port crane system and port management system. It has a complete set of driverless technology solutions for transportation from the trunk line to the area, which can help the port group. Enhance the level of intelligence, build smart ports, and achieve transformation and upgrading.
Tucson focuses on L4 (SAE) driverless truck technology solutions to provide L4 level (SAE) unmanned trucks while creating high-speed scenarios and driverless transportation solutions for container trucks in the port.
Providing L4 level autopilot is already the preferred autopilot solution for many autopilot startups.
The landing scene is the main difference between the current autopilot startups.
The port is generally operated in 24 hours. Drivers are often used in shifts. There are operational risks in the loading and unloading of containers. The working environment is arduous and the attraction to young people is poor. At the same time, the internal card sets have a high requirement for the driver's driving experience and driving qualifications, causing the driver to collect the card in the port. The shortage is serious.
The traditional AGV automatic navigation vehicle is also difficult to use due to the difficulty of retrofitting the old port, and its application is constrained.
After Tucsen autopilots trucks to the port, it mainly solves four problems in optimizing port transportation, reduces logistics transportation and operating costs, solves the shortage of truck drivers, reduces the incidence of traffic accidents, establishes new truck driving safety standards, and reduces greenhouses. Gas emissions and environmental pollution can also help port groups reduce operating costs, improve operational efficiency, reduce safety risks, and realize a full upgrade and transformation of ports from labor-intensive industries to automation, intelligence, and unmanned.
According to statistics from China Road Transport Association, American Trucking Association, US Department of Transportation, United States Department of Transportation, there are approximately 6 million heavy-duty trucks in China (Chinese heavy-duty trucks are more than 14 tons of tonnage), and the market economy is 5 trillion yuan. RMB.
In China, the cost of truck drivers accounts for 20-30% of the total transportation costs, the total number of truck accidents accounts for 30% of all vehicle traffic accidents, and the death toll accounts for 50% of all vehicle accidents. Currently, the total driver gap accounts for the industry. 20% of total demand.
Huge staffing gap and high accident rate provided the conditions for Tucson to develop self-driving trucks into the port.
At the same time, the port operations area is a special place, and the management of the entry and exit of people and vehicles is strict. According to the Regulations on the Administration of Port Public Security, undocumented personnel and vehicles are not allowed to enter the port area. Non-port area staff entering the port area should register. .
The semi-closed nature of the scene reduces the difficulty of the commercialization of autonomous truck technology.
According to Xue Jiancun, the Tucson president's assistant, 'The goals of 2018 and 2019 are to prepare for full commercialization by 2020. In research and development, we continue to promote the development of small-scale production of unmanned trucks and begin large-scale production with OEMs. The company can produce and produce unmanned trucks for R&D, continuous testing and iterative unmanned soft and hardware solutions. It has established a fleet of about 15 trucks operating a fleet, and a port is completely unmanned for transport testing and trial operation, accumulating commercial operation experience. In terms of expansion, we are very famous in China, and we are also a very famous port integrator and port operator in the world to explore the automated operation of the port. In the field of fast food, we have reached cooperation with a giant and an e-commerce giant for transportation.
Tucson’s publicly released video shows that in a port area with a speed limit of 30 km/h, four teams of self-driving Tucson trucks equipped with radar, cameras and other sensors complete the acceleration, deceleration, turning, etc. under unmanned conditions. After a system operation, accurate transportation between boxes is realized.
Hao Jianan said, 'Vehicles stopping at a precise distance from the boom require a very precise distance. The error must be controlled within five centimeters. In terms of external perception, special scenes in the harbor area will account for 20%. These are Need special treatment. '
Tucson had previously specialized in trunk line autopilot technology. For Tuen environment, Tucson technical team adjusted and customized the algorithm and lens to adapt to the nighttime low light environment and rain and snow environment.
At present, Tucson self-driving trucks can carry out automated transportation tasks in the port area 24/7.
Unlike long-distance container transport trucks that shuttle between various logistics hubs, container trucks in the terminal (hereinafter referred to as the Inner Container Vehicle) shoulder the task of transporting containers within the port according to the command of the port administration system.
Hao Jianan introduced, 'Compared with the expressway transportation outside of the port area, the port terminal operation area is relatively closed and controllable. By seamlessly docking the TOS (terminal management system), the unmanned set card is given the corresponding transport instructions. After that, it can realize the horizontal movement between any two points in the dock, the crane crane, the front crane, and the automatic collection box function at the stacker crane. Each unmanned set truck can realize the real-time and terminal control center through the vehicle network. Keep in touch, receive each task instruction from the TOS system in real time, and report the current vehicle status and task execution status to the control center in real time. The unmanned set solution can effectively improve the turnover efficiency of goods and the intelligent operation of the port area. Level, to solve the difficulties of port efficiency, cost, and security.
According to Xue Jiancong, “Tucson is committed to the development of L4 autopilot technology for a limited period of time in order to take the lead in realizing the commercialization of autopilot technology. Currently Tucson continues to promote the development, testing and operation of trunkline autopilot in China and the United States. In addition, it will also be the first in the Chinese market to commercialize the automated driving of hubs in the port area. There are already many ports that have expressed their strong interest in unmanned hub cards to Tucson, hoping to actively cooperate and build the world’s first Smart ports for artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology. '
Tucson will set 10 new world records in the global autopilot algorithm evaluation data set KITTI and Cityscapes in 2016. In 2017, it established supply chain cooperation with Shaanxi Auto, Invista, AWS, Peter Pelt, etc., and conducted tens of thousands in Hebei. Highway highway real environment road test of kilometers.
At present, Tucson will have five fully self-driving trucks already tested in domestic ports. The number is expected to reach about 25 by the end of this year.
At the same time, Tucson, who walks on two legs, is technically introducing and iterating on the one hand, and trying various possible cooperation at the operation end will increase Tucson’s leading position in the field of automatic driving.
In the spring of 2018, automatic driving was becoming a topic for the general public because of several accidents. At the same time that multi-level arguments were triggered, the commercial scene of automatic driving became practically controllable in many special fields. These specific scenes Automatic driving landing will provide reference for automatic driving into mass applications.
Autopilot seems to be very close, but there is still some distance from mass applications. Autopilot seems to be far away, but it has become a reality in certain scenes.