On June 25th, Li Zhenya, general manager of the BU MDC product department of Huawei’s smart car solution, Yang Sanjiu, director of the product management department, and Li Zhe, director of ecology, and others visited the Zhundong Open-pit Coal Mine of China Energy Group, where Eacon is located, for operational site investigation. Li Zhenya spoke highly of the exploration made by Eacon in the field of autonomous driving in recent years, and said that he will provide full support for the development of Eacon and autonomous driving in mine, and strengthen the cooperation between the two parties.
Lin Qiao, VP of Eacon Technology, introduced the autonomous solution of Eacon to Li Zhenya and his team in detail. According to reports, Eacon has broken the industry barriers between traditional mine and high-technology, and is committed to realizing autonomous intelligent operations in mining areas through high-technology and refining technology to form a data closed loop, having developed “dispatch command platform and supporting dispatch center, single-vehicle autonomous driving system, network communication system, and collaborative operation system” four-in-one mining autonomous haulage operation application system. In addition, Eacon conducted 7*24 hours autonomous haulage operation in large-scale open-pit projects such as China Energy Group and TBEA, becoming the industry’s first mining autonomous driving company to penetrate into real operation scenarios.
Accompanied by Eacon product and R&D team, Li Zhenya and his team visited the whole operation process of Eacon autonomous haulage operation, and witnessed the normalization of Eacon “safety personnel off the vehicle”. Li Zhenya highly praised the exploration and deep cultivation of Eacon in the field of autonomous driving in mining in recent years. As a leading provider of autonomous driving services in mining areas in China, Eacon developed first full-stack technology and operation service solution for autonomous driving in mining area. It is noteworthy that, while realizing the normalization of security personnel off the vehicle, Eacon also ensures the operation efficiency of the mining area. The maximum speed reaches 35km/h, and the efficiency of unmanned driving reaches 80% of the manned driving efficiency.
At the same time, the production and research team of Eacon, represented by technical VP Lin Qiao, together with leaders such as Li Zhenya, Yang Sanjiu, and Li Zhe, conducted in-depth research on the application and technical advantages of Huawei MDC in mining autonomous vehicles. It is worthnoting that the two parties have cooperated since December 2020 and have gone through many seminars. Eacon is the only autonomous driving company in the industry that adopts a vehicle-level computing platform to protect the safe operation of autonomous driving in mine.
With the gradual maturity of autonomous driving technology and the full support of policies, autonomous driving in mine is about to enter the stage of large-scale replication. Li Zhenya said that Eacon is one of the important customers of Huawei MDC in the field of commercial vehicles. Huawei MDC will fully support the development of Eacon and achieve mutually beneficial cooperation between the two parties. The two sides conducted in-depth discussions on cooperation in the next three years, and have formed a consensus on planning and coordination.
After years of in-depth cultivation and understanding of autonomous driving in mining scenario, Eacon adheres to the “technology + operation” drive, and has achieved a number of data leading the industry. In the future, Eacon will further combine top autonomous driving technology with strong on-site operation capabilities to help build safe and efficient smart mine and lead autonomous mining into a new stage.