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Integrated Systems And Specialized Vehicles
Integrated Systems And Specialized Vehicles
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Steel coil transportation is no longer "desperate"! Jingwei Hirain driverless helps port improve transportation safety
Release time:
2025-12-10 09:56
The challenges of high risk and low efficiency in steel coil transportation have now been addressed by intelligent self-driving flatbed car. In the port transportation industry, there has long been a saying: "Better to die of poverty than to transport coils." This phrase reveals the awe and respect that practitioners have for the transportation of special goods such as steel coils. Steel coils are large in size, heavy in weight, and high in value, requiring high safety, accuracy, and continuity in transportation. Traditional manual transportation models pose significant safety hazards.
Recently, Jingwei Hirain successfully won the bid for the unmanned horizontal transportation project of steel coils for the rail-water intermodal transportation at Longgong Port, marking the launch of Jingwei Hirain's new "unit cargo" unmanned transportation scenario. This is also a further deepening of cooperation between the two parties, following the successful acceptance of the first, second, and third phases of Longgong Port project.
▎Difficulty in transporting steel coils: a dual test of efficiency and safety
As a typical bulky cargo, steel coils have always been the focus and difficulty of industry attention in the transportation process. In traditional manned driving mode, steel coil transportation faces three major challenges:
- High safety hazards: During the loading, unloading, and transportation of steel coils, manual intervention poses safety risks such as collisions and falls, posing a threat to the safety of personnel and goods.
- Low standardization level: The consistency of manual operations is difficult to ensure, especially in large-scale and high-frequency work scenarios, where precision and rhythm control face challenges.
- High requirements for driving control: The steel coil has a high center of gravity and inertia, which requires high stability during the vehicle's starting, acceleration, deceleration, and braking processes.
▎Jingwei Hirain's "smart answer": heavy-duty automatic driving flatbed car, solving the difficult problem
Facing the industry pain points, Jingwei Hirain has provided a smart solution - to carry out comprehensive functional adaptation and intelligent upgrading of flatbed car that meet the upgrading conditions in the port area, so as to transform them into "smart porter" with multi scene operation capability. The upgraded unmanned flatbed car is deeply integrated with advanced perception, decision-making and control algorithms, and has the ability of accurate path identification and obstacle avoidance. It can independently complete the independent handling of steel coils, and cooperate with surrounding facilities to efficiently complete the loading, unloading and transfer tasks. It mainly covers the following aspects:
- Intelligent driving: WorldMap adaptation, navigation route adaptation, decision adaptation, map broadcast adaptation, positioning adaptation, control adaptation, etc.
- Background scheduling: development of production plan management and task scheduling function for coil loading and unloading, development of handheld human-computer interaction terminal software for coil loading and unloading, design of coil loading and unloading operation route, intelligent traffic control, etc.
Through these adaptation and development, the unmanned flatbed car will be able to operate stably in the complex port environment. Can achieve:
- Port handling capacity: through intelligent dispatching and automatic operation, the overall logistics turnover efficiency of the port is significantly improved, especially for the steel coil transportation scenario, so as to help the port break through the traditional operation bottleneck.
- Scenario expansion: break through the single function limitation of flatcar container transfer, and upgrade to a "smart porter" with multi scenario adaptation ability, which can flexibly respond to the diversified material transfer needs in the port and expand the coverage of unmanned operation.
- Improvement of operation capacity: the unmanned flatbed car can realize 24-hour uninterrupted operation, reduce the restriction of artificial fatigue on the operation duration, and improve the equipment utilization and single day operation volume.
- Transportation safety improvement: in view of the high-risk scenario of "manual boarding and bundling for multi coil bundling and hoisting" in the loading and unloading of steel coil quayside bridge, a dual safety mechanism is innovatively designed:
- Precise parking control: equipped with a dedicated handheld terminal for steel coil operation, it supports operators to issue parking instructions before getting on the train, and one click release after getting off the train, so as to ensure that the vehicle state can be controlled during man-machine cooperation.
- Emergency braking guarantee: the physical emergency braking button of the vehicle body cooperates with the emergency braking command of the terminal equipment to form a double insurance and reduce the safety risk of personnel working at heights or near the vehicle.
▎ Make progress hand in hand and enlighten the future
The winning of the steel coil transportation project in Longgong port not only highly recognized the technical strength and performance ability of Jingwei Hirain, but also marked the breakthrough of the company's heavy-duty intelligent self-driving flatbed car in the difficult scene of piece cargo transportation - successfully solving the transportation problem of "most afraid of transportation" goods such as steel coils. With the in-depth cooperation of the two sides, the project will significantly improve the efficiency and safety of steel coil transportation in the port area, help Jingwei Hirain to carry out the new paradigm of unmanned transportation of goods, and provide key practical experience for the intelligent upgrading of the industry.
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