Chinese intelligent mining technology company WAYTOUS launches intelligent vehicle CarMo for mines

Beijing (Gasgoo)- On May 5, WAYTOUS, a Chinese intelligent mining technology and service provider incubated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), jointly launched its first intelligent vehicle for mines with the Institute of Automation of CAS. 

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Named CarMo, the new energy vehicle is 8980mm long, 3550 mm wide and 3420mm high. From the very beginning, the CarMo is designed to be a self-driving vehicle, totally different from current solutions to equip a complete vehicle with autonomous driving technologies. Without the traditional cabin, the CarMo is claimed to be a true driverless vehicle for mines.

Apart from driverless mode, the CarMo also offers remote driving and short-range control as well to meet different needs of various scenarios. The vehicle is capable of real-time and accurate environmental perception and can choose to wait or go around to avoid obstacles. Because of the multi-sensor fusion positioning ability, the new vehicle can realize centimeter-level precision positioning.

Thanks to the help of multiple parties, the CarMo has achieved a number of technological breakthroughs in chassis function integration, core control algorithm, perception and positioning integration. With its own intellectual property rights, the vehicle has an over 95% localization rate of key components.

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Compared with traditional internal-combustion vehicles, the CarMo has a slew of advantages in labor cost, energy consumption, environment friendliness, intelligent features and safety. It is said that the new vehicle can reduce labor cost by RMB600,000 (about $86,824). In terms of energy consumption, the overall energy consumption cost when the vehicle goes uphill with heavy load can alone be lowered by nearly 82%. What’s more, 10,000 CarMos can save 2.2 billion liters of diesel and cut CO₂ emissions by 5.78 million tons a year.

Chen Long, CEO of WAYTOUS, said that before the CarMo rolling off the production line, his company had worked on the vehicle for nearly two years. The vehicle has already been put into pilot operation at a strip mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. In the future, the vehicle for mines will start large scale application.