Born to the mine, Huawei makes the construction of smart mines reach the realm of no one

In the spring of 2023, in an open-pit mine in the northwest, 100-ton mining cards are crossing the dust, accurately stepping on the ruts of the road, whistling up. The bright indicator lamp from far to near, gradually set off the huge figure, like the light coming in the dark messenger. This is an unmanned mining card. In the complex mining scene, relying on the collaborative control of "vehicle-road-cloud", it smoothly turns a U-shaped curve, avoids obstacles on the road, and runs at full speed on the mining ramp at a rated speed of 40Km, achieving centimeter-level accurate alignment and 7×24 hours all-weather operation. Behind such a scenario, it shows a complete set of mine driverless solutions created by Huawei based on the vehicle gauge level self-developed hardware and full-stack software algorithm.

On March 30, at the 3rd TIAA Conference on Integrated Application Results of Automatic Driving and Safety Production in the Mining Field held in Changsha, Hunan Province, Huawei officially launched the driverless solution for open pit mines. Just like the powerful mining car that passes through the dust, Huawei's solution breaks through the fog of the unmanned mining industry and jointly promotes the dust settlement of commercialization!

1 Enter the mine driverless Huawei why?

Safety in production is always the top priority of mines. Although the "2022 Annual Report on the Development of the coal Industry" released by the China National Coal Industry Association shows that the mortality rate of coal mines per million tons has been reduced from 0.374 to 0.054 in the past 10 years. However, the recently widely concerned open-pit accident has profoundly reminded us that even the safe production of open-pit mines can never be taken lightly.

In creating safe and efficient production mines, the state has always attached great importance to scientific and technological innovation. With the guidance of the eight ministries and commissions on Accelerating the Intelligent Development of Coal Mines in 2020, the intelligent construction of open-pit mines has developed rapidly in recent years. Even in the "Opinions of the People's Government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Promoting the high-end, intelligent and green development of the manufacturing industry", it is clear that the quantitative target of "smart mine (driverless/vehicle) will increase from 110 units in 2021 to 1,200 units in 2025".

In this wave of the industry, Huawei has deeply empowered the development of the industry with the strong capability of ICT infrastructure and the strategy of legionalization. In the field of commercial vehicles, it has laid out hardware such as improved vehicle gauge chip, MDC computing platform, and low-cost Lidar, and Huawei Cloud and AI large models are unique at the software level. Obviously, the output of Huawei's mine unmanned driving program is a must.

2 What are Huawei's advantages in promoting technological progress in the industry?

First, Huawei builds "smart cars." Huawei's technical capabilities cover almost the full capability set of chips, computing platforms, sensors, and algorithms. Relying on Huawei Kirin vehicle gauge chip and MDC intelligent driving computing platform, the vehicle has a brain, ensuring the high safety and reliability of autonomous decision-making of the vehicle. In terms of perception system, the vehicle is equipped with a compound eye matrix such as Lidar, millimeter-wave radar, and camera, and the continuous algorithm iteration of multi-device fusion perception makes the vehicle more and more intelligent. Not only that, Huawei has specially developed automatic driving algorithms for the optimization of six scenarios: dust, rock fall, obstacle, bumpy road, active vibration reduction and shock prevention, and excavator/retaining wall positioning, so that the vehicle can still achieve accurate, efficient and safe operation under comprehensive conditions.

Second, Huawei builds a "smart road." 5G+V2X of the roadside unit is clearly Huawei's traditional strength. Through the construction of 5G network, its low-delay and high-reliability characteristics can ensure the control experience of remote drivers to take over the vehicle, and restore the scene and feedback the control instructions in real time. At the same time, the characteristics of large bandwidth can fully meet the synchronous upload of multi-channel high-definition video and sensor data, opening up channels for cloud planning and vehicle execution. In terms of V2X functions, the optimal decision control of the global system can be achieved by providing over-the-horizon and multi-dimensional holographic sensing capabilities.

Third, Huawei has also built a "powerful cloud". Through the powerful algorithm and computing power support of the cloud, the mining car can be refined path planning and speed guidance, and the overall integration of mining equipment resources, to achieve macro scheduling and improve work efficiency. The two pillars supporting the cloud brain are simulation and high-precision maps. The autonomous driving cloud service provided by Huawei includes a large number of scene simulations, especially the mining and simulation of complex and difficult cases, which enables the autonomous driving algorithm in mining areas to take simulation as a priori and self-test based on actual conditions, and constantly iterate and upgrade to effectively cope with various harsh working conditions. The ability to support the combination of virtual and real simulation and measurement naturally depends on its high-precision map cloud service with Class-A qualification. Through efficient drawing construction and minute-level dynamic refreshing of the mining loading area and the soil discharge area, the mining car can achieve centimeter-level accurate positioning and safe distance accurate parking, which greatly improves the collaborative operation ability of the vehicle shovel.