Towards innovation and intelligent future, Tago Intelligent Driving and industry partners interpret the practice and future of new quality productivity at the International Coal Expo

On May 16, TAGE Intelligent Driving brought its latest full-mine unmanned transportation solution to the 18th China Ordos International Coal Expo. At the same time, TAGE Intelligent Driving held the "Moving Towards Innovation, Intelligently Driving the Future" New Quality Productivity Technology Development Forum. Xin Weidong, President of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Smart Mine Research Association, Geng Hao, Captain of the Intelligent Operation Team of Guoneng Norinco Shengli Open-pit Mine, Cao Zhichun, General Manager of Inner Mongolia Tiechen Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., Zhou Huasheng, Co-founder and Senior Vice President of TAGE Intelligent Driving, Zhang Dong, Chief Engineer of New Energy of Zhengzhou Yutong Mining Equipment Co., Ltd., as well as many industry experts, corporate representatives and well-known media from the fields of mining, automobile manufacturing, intelligent technology, scientific research institutes, etc. attended the event and had in-depth exchanges on the practice and development of new quality productivity in mines at the TAGE Intelligent Driving booth.

The Ordos International Coal and Energy Industry Expo has been successfully held for 17 sessions since 2006. With its high-quality services of "marketization, specialization, internationalization and branding", the conference has built an international platform for communication and cooperation for industry practitioners and is known as the number one brand in my country's coal and energy industry exhibitions.

Xin Weidong, Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Smart Mine Research Association, delivered a keynote speech

The unmanned driving industry based on big data is entering a stage of rapid development. Compared with open roads, open-pit mine unmanned driving technology has already taken the lead in the industry. Xin Weidong, president of the Smart Mine Research Association of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said in his speech at the forum that TAGE Intelligent Driving is a leader in unmanned transportation in open-pit mines. It has built the only "Key Laboratory of Special Vehicle Unmanned Transportation Technology of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology" in the industry. It is also the first national-level specialized "little giant" enterprise in the industry. With years of R&D accumulation and project practical experience, it has led the industry to create many technological precedents and played a key role in promoting the development of unmanned driving technology in open-pit mines.

As early as 2022, TAGE Intelligent Driving was the first to achieve 7*24 hours normal operation without safety officers in the State Power Beijing Electric Shengli Energy No. 1 Open-pit Mine, which is what the industry calls the L4 unmanned driving stage. As a result, domestic open-pit mine unmanned transportation has entered a new era.

Geng Hao, leader of the intelligent operation team of the Guoneng Norinco Shengli open-pit mine, delivered a keynote speech

Geng Hao, leader of the intelligent operation team of the Guoneng Norinco Shengli No. 1 Open-pit Mine, said in his speech at the forum: Shengli No. 1 Open-pit Coal Mine is a national first-class safety production standardized coal mine and a super-safe and efficient mine. It is one of the 8 guaranteed supply coal mines and 14 coal mines that have released production capacity of the National Development and Reform Commission and one of the 20 guaranteed supply coal mines in the eastern Inner Mongolia region, with an approved production capacity of 28 million tons/year.

Among them, the unmanned transportation project started construction in November 2021. Through the application of more than ten innovative technologies such as multi-vehicle soil dumping, pre-stopping in the operation area, partial renewal of the soil dumping site, and automatic speed adjustment, the production efficiency has been effectively improved. At the same time, the unmanned driving system is linked and integrated with multiple systems such as the collision avoidance system, fault monitoring system, and tire temperature and pressure monitoring system, and a variety of safety protection measures are added. From system monitoring, fault diagnosis, and redundant design of multiple safety technical measures, the safety and stability of the unmanned transportation system are ensured.

Working pictures of Guoneng Norinco Shengli Energy No.1 Mine

Geng Hao introduced: "As of April this year, the unmanned transportation project of the National Energy Beijing Shengli Energy No. 1 open-pit mine has achieved full-process normal operation of two sets (2 electric shovels and 14 trucks) without safety officers for 24 hours. The safety officers have been off the vehicles for nearly 600 consecutive days. Since the implementation of the project, a total of 86,000 vehicles have been transported, with a transportation mileage of more than 400,000 kilometers and a transported earthwork volume of more than 8 million cubic meters. The maximum loading volume of a single shovel in a single shift is 138 vehicles, the maximum loading volume in a single day is 657 vehicles, and the maximum hourly efficiency is 22 vehicles. Combined with the actual production, we have explored the operation mode of 'one road, three zones, and one center', and built a complete set of intelligent unmanned production and transportation control systems."

In the future, the Guoneng Beidian Shengli No. 1 open-pit mine will fully promote the application of efficient autonomous unmanned transportation technology for all scenarios and links of transportation equipment, and complete the modification of 21 220-ton dump trucks, forming a fleet of 35 unmanned trucks in 5 groups with the 14 unmanned trucks that have been completed, forming a complete open-pit mine unmanned transportation operation system and realizing intelligent production of mining and transportation. In 2025, it is planned to form 5 unmanned truck operation groups to undertake the mining of 5 coal, 6 coal and the stripping tasks between 5-6 coal.

On April 28 this year, the "Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Construction of Intelligent Mines and Promoting the Safety Development of Mines" issued by the State Administration of Work Safety and other seven departments pointed out that by 2026, a complete intelligent mine standard system will be established to promote the integration and interconnection of mine data, realize intelligent environmental perception, intelligent system linkage, and intelligent early warning of major disaster risks. The proportion of intelligent coal mine production capacity in the country will be no less than 60%, the proportion of intelligent working faces will be no less than 30%, the normal operation rate of intelligent working faces will be no less than 80%, and the replacement rate of intelligent equipment or robots for dangerous and heavy positions in coal mines and non-coal mines will be no less than 30% and 20% respectively. By 2030, a complete intelligent mine technology, equipment, and management system will be established to achieve deep integration and shared application of mine data, and promote the development of less-manned and unmanned mining operations.

During the forum, TAGE Intelligent Driving connected to the work situation of the Xinjiang Zhundong Open-pit Coal Mine of the State Energy Group and broadcast live. From intelligent dispatching to multi-vehicle collaborative operation, multiple unmanned wide-body transport vehicles were efficiently carrying out the hauling operation in an orderly manner, just like an experienced driver. The guests and audiences on site experienced the efficiency and shock of the unmanned transportation production operation in the mine area.

Zhou Huasheng, co-founder and senior vice president of TAGE Intelligent Driving, delivered a keynote speech

Zhou Huasheng, co-founder and senior vice president of TAGE Intelligent Driving, said that the high-quality development of open-pit mine unmanned driving technology requires long-termism. Since 2017, TAGE Intelligent Driving has always focused on the research and development of open-pit mine unmanned driving transportation technology and project services. Always focusing on doing one thing well, TAGE Intelligent Driving has continuously overcome a number of technical challenges unique to mining scenarios, and finally achieved high-precision perception of mining vehicles in harsh environments under unstructured roads, high-precision vehicle control under complex road conditions, efficient and intelligent scheduling of large-scale cluster operations, safe collaborative management and control of multi-mode network communications, and full life cycle health management based on big data. It effectively responded to the core demands of mining companies in the development of industrial intelligent upgrading.

So far, it has served more than 30 intelligent open-pit mine projects in China, involving more than 20 state-owned enterprises. The cumulative safe transportation driving time exceeds 6 million hours, the repurchase rate of major customers is nearly 100%, and the service vehicles exceed more than 420 mainstream mining models with loads ranging from 60 tons to 400 tons.

Zhou Huasheng also stated that the unmanned transportation industry in mines is entering its best stage of development. TAGE Intelligent Driving will continue to uphold the development concept of providing customers with safe, green, efficient and economical intelligent mining services, and work with industry ecosystem partners to continuously break through innovation and cross-domain cooperation, jointly enable the high-quality development of the intelligent mining industry, and deeply practice the development and application of new quality productivity of intelligent mines.

During the event, many industry experts, business leaders and agency heads visited the TAGE Intelligent Driving exhibition hall and had in-depth exchanges.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.