"Digital" and BelAZ demonstrated the work of a new autonomous system of cargo transportation at the landfill

2022: Demonstration of the autonomous trucking system

Russian the developer ON for industries "" The Robotics Figure(part of the GC "") and Zyfra one of the world manufacturers of quarry equipment BELAZ showed an improved system based on cargo transportation autonomous 90-ton quarry dump trucks at the test site of the Granit mine, the Sitnitskoye field. This "Figure" reported on September 29, 2022.

The updated fleet control system of autonomous equipment and onboard software have been "tested" at a quarry in Belarus. As a result, the tests showed a significant increase in the productivity of the autonomous mining operations section. The autonomous cargo transportation system began to operate 15% more flights per day.

At the training ground, we successfully tested the object classification module, implemented on the basis of artificial intelligence. Simply put, we taught the machine to see, now we teach you to understand what it sees. Data from lidars, which is a three-dimensional cloud of points, is processed by artificial intelligence, and the system more correctly recognizes the size, type and orientation of objects, thereby increasing security at the quarry, "explained Dmitry Lukovkin, technical director of Figures Robotics.

In the updated release, Zyfra Robotics finalized environment scanning systems using lidars and radars, as well as a traffic planning system, which reduced the number of false stops of autonomous mining trucks by 3.5 times. In addition, an updated brow detection module was implemented when reversing.

The deserted technology of mining as part of the intelligent quarry system is a joint project of the Belarusian Automobile Plant and the Russian developer of Industrial softwares "Digital Robotics," which allows mining companies, partners of BELAZ OJSC to reduce the cost of mining and increase productivity by 25-30%, increase the technical availability factor of equipment by reducing downtime and save on its repair due to optimal operating modes. With this system, the management of the mining enterprise, service services in real time receive complete information about the operation of the quarry. Thanks to the use of robotic equipment, the number of people involved in the work is reduced to a minimum, and the main functions of mining are performed by the smart quarry system, - explained in BELAZ OJSC.