On the front line of anti-epidemic, "unmanned vehicles" are in action

On February 10, most parts of the country ushered in the resumption of work and production. According to the National Development and Reform Commission, except Hubei Province, 30 other provinces in China have arranged for enterprises to resume work and production. However, the inflection point of the epidemic is still unknown and the situation is still grim. Prevention and control of epidemic situation is still the top priority of our current work. It is understood that, for example, most office buildings in Beijing still control the entry and exit of personnel, while some units still choose to work online to reduce the flow and contact between personnel.

According to the statistics of National Health Commission, from 0: 00 to 24: 00 on February 10, there were 38 newly confirmed cases outside Hubei Province, showing a downward trend for the seventh consecutive day. This shows that the closed management of large and small communities and communities in China has played a great role. In the face of strong infectivity and long incubation period, it is the duty of every citizen to actively reduce the number of trips and reduce the contact between people.

Reducing personal contact, unmanned distribution has become the best solution.

Recently, unmanned vehicles have appeared in many parts of the country, and the scale is also the largest in history.

On February 10, the first health and epidemic prevention and disinfection robot in Jiangxi Province, the unmanned disinfection vehicle, arrived in Poyang and was delivered to the urban management department for disinfection and sterilization in the communities and villages of the city. According to the staff of Poyang County Environmental Sanitation Institute, unmanned driving can effectively reduce the infection of sanitation workers in epidemic areas and reduce contact opportunities. You can completely enter the infected area and drive according to the pre-designed map route for disinfection.

The disinfection vehicle is powered by electricity and lasts for 8 hours. It is filled with 1.2 tons of disinfection water, and it only takes a few minutes to fill it up. It can kill all communities and villages in the city in all directions without dead ends, which can effectively reduce the infection risk of staff.

Futian District of Shenzhen also took the lead in using unmanned automatic sanitation sweepers during the epidemic. The unmanned automatic sanitation cleaning robot can independently complete cleaning, sprinkling water, garbage collection and other work, and maximize work efficiency. In this invisible smoke, the emergence of unmanned automatic sanitation cleaning robots and semi-automatic high-temperature and high-pressure cleaning vehicles has greatly guaranteed the safety of front-line sanitation workers.

In Zibo, Shandong Province, a logistics company also conducted a trial operation on an unmanned delivery vehicle for the first time. The unmanned delivery vehicle was loaded with nearly 1 ton of fresh vegetables and headed for the destination 2 kilometers away. After automatically stopping and unloading at the designated place, the unmanned vehicle will automatically return to the starting point to continue? 4? The second vegetable delivery. According to reports, this unmanned delivery vehicle named "Xiaole" has a battery life of 150 kilometers and can deliver more than 10 tons of vegetables every day.

With the epidemic prevention work in novel coronavirus entering a critical stage, unmanned vegetable distribution can effectively reduce the infection risk caused by human contact, realize non-contact distribution, and greatly reduce the consumption of epidemic prevention materials and labor costs.

In Wuhan, the core area of the epidemic, unmanned vehicles have played a huge role. On February 6th, Jingdong Logistics Intelligent Distribution Robot completed its first delivery in Wuhan, and successfully transported medical and living materials from Wuhan Renhe Station of Jingdong Logistics to Wuhan No.9 Hospital, which is the designated hospital for treating novel coronavirus in Wuhan and the core of the epidemic area.

The newly-built hospitals in Vulcan Mountain and Raytheon Mountain are not only equipped with? 5G？ Network coverage, equipped with telemedicine platform, remote video visiting system, 5G smart car and delivery service robot.

In order to reduce the workload of medical staff running back and forth and reduce the risk of contact and infection, the two hospitals also introduced low-speed self-driving cars and robots to undertake the work of transporting some patients and distributing goods, including transporting patients, transporting laboratory tests, medicines and patients' meals.

In a special period, unmanned vehicles or pick-up opportunities broke out.

Not long ago, the chairman of Xinpeng Automobile put forward an idea at the Weibo. In the face of catastrophe, a powerful driverless car may be designed, which can be used as a temporary residence and provide necessary support. To this end, many netizens commented on their ideas.

In fact, the concept of unmanned driving is not uncommon, such as unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, explosive ordnance disposal vehicles, robots for dredging pipelines, and surgical robots in medicine. It was not really applied to civil use until recent years. With the continuous development of science and technology in the future, "unmanned driving" technology will greatly replace human beings to complete some dangerous and impossible tasks.

February 10, Baidu? Apollo? It is announced that it will open low-speed mini-car kits and self-driving cloud services to enterprises serving the epidemic free of charge, accelerate the application of self-driving products, and join hands with ecological partners to help prevent and control the epidemic. Its open technical resources will mainly include two parts:

First of all, the Apollo platform opens a low-speed self-driving mini-car kit, which includes hardware solutions, software and corresponding services to support the automatic driving application of epidemic prevention vehicles; Baidu promises to provide free technical adaptation and supply chain support to enterprises that use low-speed self-driving mini-car kits to serve the epidemic during the epidemic.

Second, during the epidemic period, the self-driving operation vehicle enterprises aiming at epidemic prevention scenes can get the matrix support of self-driving cloud services provided by Baidu Apollo platform for free, including but not limited to high-precision maps, simulation, vehicle calibration, data labeling, sensor calibration, remote monitoring, cloud storage/computing and other key cloud services.

As early as February 4 this year, two unmanned logistics trolleys of Apollo eco-partner Neolithic have been sent to Wuhan and actively put into epidemic prevention work. On February 6th, as the ecological partners of Apollo, Neolithic and Zhixing respectively dispatched their own unmanned logistics vehicles and unmanned cleaning and disinfection vehicles, which have arrived at the isolation point in Beijing and can be used for independent cleaning, disinfection and food delivery services in the isolation area in the future.

In addition, the technicians of Baidu Apollo ecological partner Qingdao Wuniu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. also went to the forefront of the epidemic from 65438+1October 3 1 to deploy unmanned disinfection robots in the isolation area of confirmed patients in the hospital. According to statistics, nearly 30 self-driving spray disinfection robots have been donated and deployed in Qingdao Qingda Affiliated Hospital, Rizhao People's Hospital and Shandong Chest Hospital for disinfection.

Similarly, in order to effectively protect the health of medical staff, Yan Hui, an Apollo ecological partner, has successively launched three epidemic monitoring systems, namely, epidemic prevention for community personnel and AEB system with temperature detection. Among them, AEB system with temperature detection can monitor human body temperature in real time in commercial vehicles (operating vehicles, buses, etc.). ) or at the front and rear doors, when it exceeds the normal body temperature, it will alarm and record data.

Red dot comment:

From the dining area to the epidemic area, from the delivery of food and medicine to the delivery of outdoor materials, robots and unmanned vehicles can do things far beyond our imagination. If robots can be used instead of humans to take some high risks and less "the most beautiful retrograde" and parting, then humans will witness more beauty.

This active participation in the front line of the war epidemic has also made the public feel good about the future technology of unmanned vehicles, and also provided countless reasonable motives for the government to introduce more support policies in the future. The outbreak of the epidemic may be an opportunity to boost driverless technology.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.