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Sany’s intelligent mining solution

To capitalise on the opportunity of intelligent mining, Sany Heavy Equipment is focusing on the development of unmanned surface mining equipment, well mining equipment, deployment system, and cloud platform. On June 11th, two of Sany’s electric, unmanned SKT90E wide-body mining trucks successfully operated in coordination with a 5G controlled excavator and cloud deployment in place of operators. Sany said this created a safer and more efficient unmanned operation model.

The two SKT90E wide-body mining trucks demonstrated high-level environmental identification and positioning capacity. Their autonomous operating systems can conduct timely decision making and accurate route planning in the operation field. The deviation of the horizontal control of the unmanned operation can be kept under 30cm. The truck can independently complete route-tracking, load and unload of materials, and parking.

With the support multiple sensing technologies including millimetre-wave radar, laser radar, and visual sensor, the truck can conduct the scanning and tracking of obstacles within 150m, and it can also implement distance ranging and identification within 100m in response to different weathers in different seasons. Sany also says the mining truck’s electric power system safeguards against potential fuel shortages on isolated sites at high altitudes.

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