Guoshen’s Dananhu No. 2 Coal Mine Succeeds in No-load Test Run of Unmanned Mining Trucks

On September 17, the Dananhu No. 2 Coal Mine of Shenhua Guoneng Group, a subsidiary of China Energy, succeeded in no-load test run of unmanned mining trucks, with all technical indicators meeting the requirements. This marked that the company’s intelligent mine construction had entered a new stage.

A driverless mining truck autonomously travels through the test area.

Featuring multi-disciplinary technological integration of computer sciences, modern sensing technology, information fusion, wireless communication, artificial intelligence, 5G technology, automatic control, environmental identification, machine learning and other technologies, the unmanned driving system is a high-tech solution capable to achieve collaborative operation of truck and excavator, automatic truck parking, automatic walking of loaded excavator, fully automatic truck walking, automatic obstacle avoidance, vehicle meeting, right-of-way management, and automatic scheduling and driving under the off-ramp and complex road sections. It also enables precise stopping and unloading at the discharge field as well as intelligent scheduling among multiple unloading points.

Next, the company will conduct load tests for a group of four driverless trucks entering the stope. When officially put into production, the trucks’ transportation efficiency will be increased by more than 10 percent, fuel consumption will drop by 10 percent, and production and operation costs will be reduced by around 10 percent.