Mining transportation is often accompanied by bumpy road conditions, extreme weather, remote areas, and other factors. Therefore, safety is the priority in production. Besides, difficult recruitment and high personnel mobility affect stable operations as well, so autonomous-driving transportation is the fundamental solution. However, due to the complexity of the environment and the diversity of mining vehicles, the need to replace human driving requires a more unified, safe, and stable autonomous-driving transportation system.
The client is an enterprise focusing on autonomous-driving transportation technologies and services in mining areas. Its products are mainly used in all kinds of mining vehicles such as large mining trucks, wide-body transport vehicles, and all kinds of auxiliary vehicles such as excavators, bulldozers, command vehicles, etc. Based on its self-developed systems and intelligent hardware, it covers two modes of solution delivery and operation of autonomous-driving transportation, which meets the autonomous operation during the whole process of "loading, transporting, and unloading", efficient collaborative work, and intelligent scheduling of large-scale cluster work.
Before using ONERugged's rugged tablets, the client has been using ordinary industrial displays for human-computer interaction. Although ordinary industrial displays are low-cost and meet the requirements of the initial use of the mining scenarios, they do not show reliable performance in waterproof, dustproof, and shock-proof in daily use, and are prone to failure when it encounters dust and bumpiness in mining areas, resulting in interrupting the power signal, data loss, and equipment wastage. In addition, the long response delay of the resistive touchscreen also greatly reduces the work efficiency, and the limited number of interfaces for ordinary industrial displays is impossible to connect multiple peripheral devices, making it difficult to integrate a unified and efficient autonomous-driving transportation solution. At this time, an intelligent terminal with both stability and scalability has become a necessary equipment condition for the client to apply the overall solution of autonomous-driving transportation in mining areas.
After comparing the rugged tablets of different manufacturers, the client finally chose the ONERugged V10J panel PC with both security, scalability, and efficient performance as a display and execution terminal of the autonomous-driving transportation solution according to its actual use scenarios and needs.
Solution of V10J
V10J panel PC with scalability and compatibility as an intelligent terminal for mining vehicle operation, it is installed and fixed on the production and auxiliary vehicles in the mining area through the vehicle mount. Equipped with client's self-developed autonomous-driving mode and the Windows 11 operating system, V10J is easily adapted to the In-vehicle System, Ground System, and Cloud Control Platform, to integrate the full-stack autonomous-driving transportation solution and operation service.
Client's autonomous-driving transportation scheme covers dozens of mining areas and hundreds of mining vehicles. Through the extensive coverage and stable built-in networks of 4G, WiFi, and Bluetooth of V10J, mutual communication and information sharing between mining vehicles and the Cloud Control Platform can be realized. In open-pit mining operations, V10J receives the command file issued by the Cloud Control Platform and displays it on its 10.1-inch HD and HB screen. Drivers of electric forklifts, excavators, bulldozers, and command vehicles can read and send instructions to the autonomous mining trucks to enter and leave the mining area, set the docking position, and complete loading and unloading operations, to efficiently complete the tasks.
V10J vehicle PC has rich interfaces and strong compatibility, and with the client's self-developed terminal software installed on the mining vehicle and its excellent ruggedness, it can adapt to the changing road conditions and dusty environment in the mining area and assists in the mining operations brilliantly without interruption caused by bumpiness. Its stable wireless communication signal and GPS precision positioning system can efficiently receive task instructions and monitor the transport route of mining vehicles, greatly improving the efficiency and safety of mining transportation.
V10J meets the IP65-grade protection, and it can work between the extreme temperature of -20°C to 60°C. With its own reliable waterproof, dust-proof, and anti-shock performance, it can adapt to complex road conditions and extreme environmental conditions in different mining areas. There will be no lag, loss, and other failures in the complex environment of mining areas, to ensure that the mining transport is not interrupted, and reduce the maintenance cost of equipment as well.
V10J supports a variety of wireless communication modes such as 4G, dual-band WiFi, Bluetooth 5.0, and GPS navigation system, which widely covers every corner of the mining area. By interacting with the Cloud Control Platform, it can quickly upload and share data information of mining vehicles to achieve visual management of the whole process of transportation.
Different from ordinary industrial displays, V10J has rich interfaces (USB 3.0 port, network port, serial port, power port, and more, and high compatibility, which can connect more operating equipment and systems to diversified applications and handle multiple tasks at the same time, forming a complete, efficient, and convenient autonomous-driving transportation solution for mines.
