After the Spring Festival, the Shenzhen epidemic has entered a new round of tough battles. Shenzhen's epidemic control measures have been continuously increased, and the number of closed and sealed areas has gradually increased. How to ensure the lives of residents is not only the focus of social attention, but also the difficulty of epidemic prevention and control. Under the call of the government, and in the care of Shenzhen, the fleet of Yiqing Innovation unmanned vehicles is ready to go, heading to multiple isolation areas, providing anti-epidemic materials and living materials across two kilometers, and starting all-weather zero-contact technology to fight the epidemic and reduce the virus. Risk of human-to-human transmission.

Futian Yitian Village covers an area of 490,000 square meters, with a total of 128 buildings and tens of thousands of residents. It has been closed since February 24. The area is large, there are many people, and the closure and control time is long. Although the facilities in the village are complete, a large amount of living materials need to be obtained from outside. In the battle against the epidemic, it is not only necessary to ensure the personal safety of the closure and control personnel, but also to ensure the materials of the transportation channels. Safety, Yiqing Innovation, a leading driverless company supported by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, has taken an active role in leading the small-sized and large-capacity Yiqing Innovation unmanned vehicle to join the fight against the epidemic. It officially settled in on February 27 to provide epidemic prevention materials for the closed area. Zero-contact transportation, all-weather operation, to ensure the reserve of epidemic prevention materials during the closure and control period.

This time, Yiqing Innovation's latest unmanned car is deployed in Yitian Village, with an unloaded battery life of 80km. The carriage can be equipped with service modules for different scenarios such as logistics transportation, express delivery, and meal delivery services. A single delivery of anti-epidemic materials can reach 100kg, capable of high-frequency operation. Under the severe epidemic prevention and control situation, it can be effectively operated on a fixed route, and it has been mass-produced. As of February 28, Yitian Village has successfully settled in two Yiqing unmanned vehicles. At this stage, it is mainly responsible for the transportation of materials between the community entrance and the closed area and the distribution of anti-epidemic materials in the community. Currently, there are about 50 deliveries per day. , more functions of the carriage can be developed later, and it can be expanded to carry out larger-scale anti-epidemic transportation for the entire community.

In this round of epidemic, the technology of quarantine hotels is also a top priority. In addition to the support in Futian, the Yiqing Innovation unmanned fleet has been carrying out unmanned transportation services at the Baguang Ecological International Hotel since February 28. The main investment in unmanned vehicles is Yiqing’s innovative Kuafu series of multi-functional unmanned vehicles. The carriage is functionally customized as a food delivery vehicle. It can deliver 250 meals in one trip. It can be automatically connected to the hotel system, from transportation to delivery. The process is untouched.

As we all know, centralized isolation hotels are places with the highest risk in epidemic prevention and control, except for isolation wards and virus laboratories, which also puts forward higher requirements for epidemic prevention. In order to reduce the workload of epidemic prevention personnel and reduce the risk factor of staff being exposed to dangerous areas, Yiqing innovative unmanned vehicles adopts unmanned distribution solutions to improve the high capacity and intelligent distribution of unmanned vehicles, which can last 24 hours a day. Frequency of work to ensure the operation of Baguang Ecological International Hotel is intelligent, informatized and technological. In the distribution process, a single unmanned vehicle can replace at least 3-4 people’s work, reducing personnel input; on the other hand, unmanned vehicles can also reduce cost input. For example, if manual distribution is used, it is required to be replaced every time it enters and leaves the polluted area. The use of unmanned vehicle distribution can effectively reduce this investment. It is conservatively estimated that only protective clothing can save millions of dollars in isolated hotels and 5 million in labor costs per year. At the same time, from the perspective of social benefits, unmanned vehicles can be on call at any time without fear of infection, which can reduce the risk of infection among staff, solve the problem of lack of service personnel caused by difficulty in recruiting workers, and greatly relieve labor pressure.

In terms of safety, Yiqing unmanned vehicles can not only ensure "zero contact" to achieve anti-epidemic safety during the distribution process, but also maintain "zero mistakes" during transportation to achieve driving safety. Don't think that it looks like an unmanned operation. , but in fact it is full of eyes, and there are more than a dozen sensors all over the small body, including lidar, ultrasonic radar and mono/binocular cameras. Relying on multi-sensor fusion, it can perform high-precision mapping, 360° obstacle perception and Real-time dynamic positioning, which means that it is richer than the world seen by the naked eye and safer than walking. The reason why Yiqing's innovative unmanned vehicle is safe, stable and has good performance is also due to the strong support of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which provides technical guidance and project cooperation, so that the unmanned vehicle can be used in the process of autonomous driving. Safe and effective realization of autonomous lane change, traffic light recognition, adaptive path planning, active collision avoidance, and courtesy to pedestrians. Even if there are some accidents on the road, unmanned vehicles can always turn the corner.

Unmanned vehicles not only have sensors as the eyes to ensure the safety of driving, but also need the brain to issue orders to the unmanned vehicles. The innovative and self-developed TaaS (Transportation as a Service) system includes the whole vehicle part, the scheduling system and the operation and maintenance system. Realize cloud remote scheduling, support hundreds of unmanned vehicles online synchronously and uniformly dispatch and monitor across the park, follow up transportation tasks, allow unmanned vehicles to have data collection functions during automatic driving, and record transportation frequency, transportation time, and transportation environment. During the epidemic period, the level of automation, digitization and informatization of prevention and control can be improved. If the task needs to be terminated or changed during transportation, it is also controlled by the scheduling system.

Unmanned vehicle technology to fight the epidemic is not a new word. As early as the beginning of 2020, when the epidemic broke out, during the nationwide lockdown, Yiqing Innovation unmanned vehicles have already been put into operation, and have been launched in Shenzhen, Guangdong, Zibo, Shandong, Suzhou, Jiangsu and other places. Anti-epidemic, continuous operation for more than a month, accumulated mileage of more than 1,000km, served more than 10,000 people, delivered more than 5,000 box lunches, transported a weight of 20 tons, and took nearly 100 hours to kill the epidemic area. The battle against the epidemic is a protracted battle. As a local enterprise in Shenzhen, Yiqing Innovation takes Shenzhen as the source to help Shenzhen fight the epidemic. It uses unmanned fleets to help fight the epidemic, transport anti-epidemic materials, and reduce the risk of people gathering and contact. This is not only a clear The social responsibility of innovation is also the mission of Yiqing unmanned vehicles. I hope that Shenzhen will win the battle against the epidemic as soon as possible, and the fleet of unmanned vehicles will return as soon as possible to invest in more battles.