Autonomous Trucks
The event is held in Europe’s largest basalt quarry in Nieder-Ofleiden, which is operated by Mitteldeutsche Hartstein-Industrie AG. “The xtonomy AHS is designed for smaller truck fleets that may be fully orchestrated by the excavator or loader operator. xtonomy adds: “Furthermore, it handles the interaction of multiple trucks in such unstructured environments. Several safety layers guarantee a safe operation with safe radio comms, high-precision GPS, radar and Ultra-Wideband (UWB) localisation. Manned machines may be integrated into the ecosystem for safe interaction in complex scenarios.”Finally, xtonomy says its autonomy system does not require uninterrupted coverage of high-bandwidth comms throughout the mine-site which dramatically reduces the system implementation effort.