KAMAZ is going to use unmanned trucks in 2019

23 April 2018

Smart trucks will be help on the line

the Unmanned vehicle are developed on only abroad, but also in Russia. The operation of such vehicles can begin even earlier than expected — already in 2019. One of the domestic innovators may become KAMAZ: it specialists are already working on project "Odyssey", the results of which self-driving cars to appear on internal routes.

Russia's Largest truck manufacturer is going to implement unmanned technology at the stage of logistics transportation. A pilot route to connect the two factory: press and stamping plant, and automotive. It is assumed that "smart" trucks will be able to carry the cab. Cars will travel on existing roads vnutricletocnam.

the Name "Odyssey" was chosen for a reason: self-driving cars will run laps, so they will be forced to leave and to return to the same place. In the development of computer control involved specialists of NTC and partners of KAMAZ, Kazan Federal University. Earlier Kamskiy Zavod has collaborated with the company Cognitive Technologies, whose drones had previously crossed the first million miles.

the Debut copy of "the Odyssey" is based on a diesel truck KAMAZ-43083. Suspension borrowed from the production model, but the car got a lot of advanced equipment: cameras, lidars and radars. These devices are responsible for computer vision. Also the car is equipped with high-precision navigation system whose error does not exceed 3-5 cm in Elements of connection include Wi-Fi transmitter enterprise-class 4G and the special VHF-band in case of emergency.

Here is what the chief designer of innovative cars of NTC Sergei Nazarenko: "every autorobot mode manual remote control via joystick or steering wheel, like in a computer game. This mode is a spare in case of an emergency. The basic mode of operation – Autonomous mode, with monitoring by the operator. If it was something non-standard, unexpected – a car stops and waits for operator's command. For this purpose a system of monitoring and control astrobotany", - says Sergey Nazarenko. After some time we give machines more autonomy, but after carrying out all necessary inspections and tests. Project Odyssey is a scalable project, and one or two cars on the route will have in the future turn into tens and hundreds".

it is Expected that the first trial runs of "smart" trucks will take place in the summer of 2018. The developers hope to quickly bring their solution to production level: the working operation of UAVs should begin in 2019.