Shuttle (pilotless truck)

2020: Start of testing of the beskabinny electric vehicle "Shuttle"

On December 24, 2020 it became known of the beginning of testing of the pilotless truck of "KamAZ" outside the platform of the producer. It is about the electric vehicle under the name "Shuttle" in which there is no cabin.

The machine is the biaxial chassis with the symmetric platform located on the center of the chassis where both axes rotary as much as possible to increase an opportunity when maneuvering on small sections.

First beskabinny pilotless "KAMAZ" - Shuttle is developed

The car is equipped with the duplicated lobby and back lighting engineering, as a result - the equivalent direction of advance or back (by the principle "pull-push"). During one-way traffic the corresponding front headlights and opposite tail lamps are lit. When changing the movement of the car in the opposite direction there is a replacement of lighting according to the direction of the movement.

On front and back parts of the car elements of machine vision (lidars and cameras) ensuring functioning of the car in a standalone mode are located. The machine is equipped with the synchronous electric motor on permanent magnets with vector management that gives the constant frequency of rotation at different loadings.

The artificial intelligence allows the electric vehicle independently and safely for people around to move on roads on an equal basis with other participants of the movement, including with pedestrians.

Length of the electric car is 8 m, width — 2.5 m, height — 4 m. Loading capacity reaches 10 tons. The motion speed limited to electronics is 40 km/h. The car course stock without recharge of accumulators is stated at the level of 50 km.

In December, 2020 Shuttle was tested by the Center of innovations in logistics of Gazprom Neft, in the territory of open logistic space of Moscow Oil Refinery.^[1]

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