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Along with the continuous booming development of AGV applications, more and more enterprises began to enter this field, in addition to the traditional AGV enterprises, startups, logistics integrators, in recent years, a number of large-scale machinery and equipment manufacturers have also begun to develop related products.
Zhenhua Heavy Industry--Port AGV is the main
Zhenhua Heavy Industry started with port machinery, is one of the world's largest manufacturers of heavy equipment for port machinery, Zhenhua Heavy Industry from 1998 began to get involved in the field of automation, Zhenhua Heavy Industry. In 2000, Zhenhua provided 4 sets of double trolley axles for the CTA automated terminal in the Port of Hamburg, started to research and develop AGVs in 2002, and successfully developed the first generation of straddle carriers in 2005, and then successfully researched, developed and built the demonstration line of the automated terminal in 2008 under the support of the 863 special project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China. By now, ZPMC has accumulated rich experience in automated terminal control system hardware and software, and has the ability to provide overall solutions.
In terms of AGV research and development, ZPMC's products are mainly harbor AGVs. In the Qingdao Port Automated Terminal Project, ZPMC Heavy Industries provided Qingdao Port with 7 sets of shore bridges, 20 sets of automated rail cranes, 38 sets of automated guided vehicles (L-AGVs), 1 set of stationary cranes, as well as the terminal's equipment control management system. Among them, the latest generation of automated guided vehicles (L-AGV) independently developed by ZPMC has its own lifting function, which can lift containers on its own; ZPMC also provided 88 AGVs in the Yangshan Port Phase IV project.
In 2019, in the first fully automated terminal in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area, the Guangzhou Harbor Nansha Phase IV project, ZPMC built a new generation of "IGV", in which the driverless Intelligent Guided Vehicle (IGV), which is a horizontal transportation equipment, will adopt multi-sensor fusion positioning equipped with satellite navigation and positioning, LIDAR SLAM (i.e., "Simultaneous Positioning and Mapping"), vision SLAM, and other positioning The IGV will use multi-sensor fusion positioning technology with satellite navigation and positioning, laser radar SLAM (i.e., "simultaneous positioning and mapping"), vision SLAM, and other multi-sensor fusion positioning technologies. Compared with the previous automated terminals using automatic guided vehicle AGVs, which require tens of thousands of magnetic nails to be buried to provide navigation and positioning, and to limit the route of travel of the AGV, the IGVs will be more flexible in their navigation methods.
LiuGong--Multiple AGV products for the intelligent logistics industry
LiuGong is known as "the front-runner of China's construction machinery industry". "Comprehensive intelligence" is one of the three major strategies of LiuGong, LiuGong is the traditional industry and modern science and technology, especially IT, Internet, intelligent technology organically combined, its leading loaders, excavators, road rollers, forklifts, and other products through the equipment intelligence, manufacturing intelligence, and after-market intelligence to achieve the transformation of enterprise industries. Upgrading. In terms of equipment intelligence, LiuGong forklifts have long been involved in the field of intelligent industrial vehicle products, providing customers with comprehensive intelligent logistics solutions.
In 2014, LiuGong started the market research and technology development of AGV products. After all the R & D team *** with the same efforts, LiuGong first latent AGV series of automatic navigation vehicle was born, since then, LiuGong on this basis is the development of a series of AGV products, At present, its AGV products have traction, forklift, handling, latent and other types of moving load form. And from the drive form, LiuGong not only has a single wheel, two-wheel and multi-wheel drive omni-directional AGV; in the form of guidance, LiuGong research and development of products also include laser navigation products.
In fact, LiuGong not only provides intelligent industrial vehicle products, but also provides customers with overall intelligent logistics system solutions, LiuGong forklift currently has a more mature set of intelligent logistics solutions, through the AGV intelligent logistics solutions to realize unmanned operation in factories, can be seamlessly connected with the customer's WMS Warehouse Management System and MES Manufacturing Process Execution System to reduce manpower. The company's products are designed to work seamlessly with the customer's WMS warehouse management system and MES manufacturing process execution system to reduce labor costs and improve production efficiency.
Zoomlion - Starting from Magnetically Guided AGV
Zoomlion was founded in 1992, and is mainly engaged in the research and development of construction machinery, agricultural machinery and other high-tech equipment manufacturing. On the basis of the existing forklift technology, Zoomlion has also begun to gradually involved in AGV research and development in recent years.
In 2018, Zoomlion launched the TB20V1 series of AGV handling forklifts, which was developed by Zoomlion Industrial Vehicle Company in cooperation with a robotics industry research institute company in Wuhu, and it mainly realizes automatic guidance through magnetic navigation technology and completes the corresponding actions according to the user's own programmed instructions; and it can be remotely controlled through a cell phone APP, for remote control.
The person in charge of Zoomlion Heavy Industry Vehicle Company has said that AGV is one of the company's product intelligence development planning and strategic objectives, by increasing the proportion of forklift technology, take the customer customization, proprietary route. On top of the accumulation of experience in magnetic navigation AGV forklift technology, Zoomlion will subsequently develop laser navigation AGV products.
Shandong Lingong--Subsidiary to fully develop the AGV market
Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery Company Limited (Shandong Lingong), founded in 1972, is an internationalized construction machinery enterprise, a national high-tech enterprise. . Linyi Lingong Intelligent Information Technology Co., Ltd (abbreviation: LGIIC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of LGI Group, formerly an automation and intelligent project research and development team serving the group's internal company, has been moving towards marketization since 2016, and its series of AGV products have been well received by the market.
Currently, Lingong Zhike's intelligent logistics AGV product line includes: backpack, submerged, traction, forklift, etc. Lingong's AGVs are mainly used in the commercial vehicle industry for SPS distribution of the interior trim line, process transfer of the sub-assembly line, and material distribution of the welding line, in addition to the parts and components industry and the heavy industry field of material transportation, etc.
Lingong Zhike is the first company in the world to develop a series of AGV products, which have been well received by the market.
Lingong Zhike since the external service, order realization for four consecutive years of geometric multiplier growth, from 4.5 million yuan in 2016 to 2019, the company realized order sales of more than 110 million yuan, in a large number of AGV enterprises, Lingong Zhike has been among the forefront of the industry. According to the social environment and industry development trend, Lingongzhike has also formulated a strategic development plan for the next five years. According to the plan, by the end of 2020, the company's order amount will reach 220 million yuan, by 2025 the company's order amount will reach 1.5 billion yuan.
Sany Heavy Industry - 5G-based Intelligent Networked Cloud-based AGV Project
Since its establishment in 1994, Sany Heavy Industry has been maintaining rapid growth, and has now developed into a leading international construction machinery manufacturer. Sany actively promotes the application of robots, automation systems, IoT, visual recognition, AI and other technologies in order to enhance the level of manufacturing processes, production efficiency and significantly improve manufacturing costs.
In 2019, Sany, China Telecom and Huawei jointly carried out a 5G-based intelligent network-connected cloud-based AGV project, combining 5G, MEC and AI technologies with AGVs, and greatly reducing the cost of manufacturing by migrating the AGV LIDAR navigation to the visual navigation based on the large bandwidth of the 5G uplink, and migrating the deep learning algorithms to the 5G edge computing By migrating AGV LIDAR navigation to 5G uplink large bandwidth based vision navigation, and deep learning algorithms to 5G edge computing MEC platform, the complexity and cost of AGV stand-alone functions are greatly reduced, and the intelligence and standardization level of AGV vehicles is improved.
The algorithm experts of Sany Heavy Industry Intelligence Research Institute innovatively converge the HD camera, radar and other sensor data on the end side of the AGV to the edge server side of the MEC through the ultra-low-latency, ultra-large bandwidth 5G industrial private network. By using self-developed visual perception, deep learning and other algorithms for real-time computing on the MEC side, local factory big data is formed on the MEC side, realizing intelligent analysis of factory operation scenes.
At present, Sany's cloud-based AGV products are being combined with Huawei's 5G modules, and commercial products are planned to be produced in Q1 2020.