{"id":226,"date":"2020-12-08T23:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miningproductsmagazine.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2020-12-08T23:40:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:40:40","slug":"volvo-says-autonomous-transport-coming-to-mines-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northamericanmining.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/08\/volvo-says-autonomous-transport-coming-to-mines-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo says autonomous transport coming to mines early"},"content":{"rendered":"

Volvo Autonomous Solutions was created on Jan. 1, 2020, to develop and commercialize autonomous transport solutions for the whole Volvo Group. As well as providing adapted machines from within the Volvo Group, Volvo Autonomous Solutions will support \u2013customers with solutions to autonomous machines\u2019 other challenges, namely the supporting infrastructure, control towers, repair and maintenance, virtual drivers and even run the operations if needed.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Volvo Autonomous Solutions is working closely with the Volvo Group\u2019s other business areas, especially Volvo Construction Equipment in the off-road segment. This ensures that new machines, whether developed specifically to be autonomous \u2013 like Volvo\u2019s award-winning TA-15 hauler \u2013 or traditional operator-based equipment, use the same autonomous drive platforms, coding languages etc. This allows them to be \u201ctalked to\u201d in the same way, as well as offering the ability to scale up easily. Not all machines will be autonomous but being \u201cautonomous enabled\u201d allows Volvo Autonomous Solutions to supercharge the standard products into operator-less machines, using its own proprietary autonomous drive kit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are starting small with less complex use cases and will build on our successes,\u201d said Perjohan Rosdahl, head of Off-Road at Volvo Autonomous Solutions. \u201cWith the right customer partners, the next step could be underground mining and tunnel applications \u2013 autonomous machines (especially electric ones) work just as well in the dark as in the light, and it\u2019s good to remove people as much as possible from these hazardous locations. From there we could focus on large earthmoving projects that are still contained but have more variables to cope with, as our technology becomes more embedded over time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Improved process optimization, lower energy consumption and improved safety are just three of the benefits of autonomous machines. There are lots of R&D challenges to be overcome \u2013 and they will be. But it won\u2019t be a technical innovation that makes the breakthrough \u2013 that requires changes in legislation and a new mindset as to how the whole process can operate more effectively.<\/p>\n

Volvo Autonomous Solutions, www.volvogroup.com\/en-en\/about-us\/organization\/other-entities\/volvo-autonomous-solutions.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volvo Autonomous Solutions was created on Jan. 1, 2020, to develop and commercialize autonomous transport solutions for the whole Volvo Group. As well as providing adapted machines from within the Volvo Group, Volvo Autonomous Solutions will support \u2013customers with solutions to autonomous machines\u2019 other challenges, namely the supporting infrastructure, control towers, repair and maintenance, virtual drivers and even run the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[152,150,151],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment-technology","tag-autonomous-transport","tag-volvo","tag-volvo-autonomous-solutions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t