With the expansion of industrial scale, heavy and inefficient manual inspections in industrial industries such as photovoltaics, electric power, bridges, and construction are becoming more and more difficult to meet the needs of the industry, and the injection of new technologies is urgently needed. In the past few years, more and more Many industries have tried to apply intelligent robots to work.

After nearly ten years of development, intelligent robots not only exist in factories and other production lines, but also penetrate into various life scenarios such as clothing, food, housing and transportation. However, the functional components of most robots in use today are heterogeneous and distributed, and cannot communicate and collaborate. For some complex scenarios, such as photovoltaic inspection, mining, urban management and other complex scenarios are not competent.

Therefore, the third generation of robotics technology, ubiquitous robots, came into being.

Traditional robot applications encounter bottlenecks

"After three years of inspections, there are still so many problems that have not been found in daily inspections. But using the smart photovoltaic solution only needs to press a button, and the effect is better than his one-year operation." This is a person who is engaged in photovoltaic power plants. Operation and maintenance personnel sighed after seeing the application of ubiquitous robotics technology in the photovoltaic industry.

The industry generally believes that ubiquitous robotics is the product of the combination of robotics componentization and networking. It was born based on the needs generated by scenarios where traditional robots are not competent. And because it is a qualitative leap in the research and development concept of traditional robots, it is called the third-generation robot technology.

It is understood that in the pre-survey process of traditional photovoltaic power stations, the power station calculation is generally carried out by referring to the planning and design drawings of the original building and manual climbing for size measurement.

Due to the particularity and complexity of the industry, traditional robots are not capable of post-operation and maintenance of photovoltaic products. In the past ten years, the post-operation and maintenance of photovoltaic products can only use manual inspection, but manual inspection also faces many problems.

 Photovoltaic products cover a wide area, and inspections are easily affected by factors such as climate. Traditional manual inspections are extremely inefficient. At the same time, during the inspection process, the operation status of the equipment is mostly judged based on the experience of the operation and maintenance personnel, and the inspection results are prone to deviations. It is understood that my country's annual expenditure on photovoltaic operation and maintenance is about 10 billion yuan.

Similar problems also occur in the mining industry. The traditional mining industry requires people to drive excavators into the mountains for mining, and then people drive mine trucks to transport ore and other materials. Due to the complex geological conditions of the mining area, there will be dangers of landslides and falling rocks at any time. These hidden security issues have been criticized for a long time. Because of these problems, some mines have even been unable to recruit people.

The application of ubiquitous robotics is expected to solve these industry challenges. To put it simply, the application method is to first intelligently transform traditional equipment into "robots", and then connect technologies such as IOT and cloud computing to the cloud platform, so that multiple machines can realize data exchange and work together. Compared with a single robot, ubiquitous robotics focuses more on multi-robot collaboration and environmental intelligence.

However, because the technology itself is more overall-oriented and involves many subdivision technologies, it is different from the robot market of individual application scenarios such as industrial robots and service robots. Few manufacturers are exploring and trying.

machine interconnection

Fortunately, there are already companies that have conducted in-depth research on this, and Boonray Technology is such a company. At present, Boonray Technology's products have served many vertical fields such as photovoltaic inspection, mine operation, and park management.

"The focus of ubiquitous robotics is not the collection of data or how complicated the robot needs to be, but the communication between machines and the interaction between robots and humans. In short, we are more inclined to the whole system. Design." Hu Xinyi, founder and CEO of Boonray Technology, said publicly.

 Taking the application of unmanned inspection of photovoltaic power stations as an example, based on the needs of scene applications, Boonray Technology has installed network-connected automatic control modules and airborne intelligent modules on UAVs, so that UAVs can realize automatic take-off and landing flight, automatic Collecting data and matching the drone apron can also realize automatic charging. These hardwares also improve the data acquisition, transmission, and processing capabilities of the drone.

With the support of the above hardware, the APP developed by Boonray Technology can also realize functions such as route planning, flight area limitation, cloud interconnection, and account control. In conjunction with the "Boonray Cloud" processing platform, the drone can also quickly identify photovoltaic panel defects through infrared rays.

As shown in the picture above, Boonray Photovoltaic Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is used for intelligent inspection, which solves the problems faced by inspections, such as the vast area of the power station, the large undulating terrain, the difficulty of manual summiting, and the vulnerability to weather. It greatly reduces labor costs and improves productivity. Inspection efficiency. Boonray Technology's photovoltaic intelligent inspection solution can achieve 100% full inspection of 20MW a day, which is 10 times the efficiency of manual inspection.

Based on the successful implementation of the drone project, Boonray's ubiquitous robotics technology has also been extended to automated transportation scenarios in mines. Generally speaking, Boonray Technology's "smart mine" mine solution can be divided into two parts: "heaven" and "underground". "Sky" uses drones to scan the entire mining area, uses three-dimensional modeling technology and other technologies to build a high-precision map of the mining area, and builds a 5G network that can be used by the mining area.

"Underground", transforming traditional minecarts. The vehicle-grade multi-camera + lidar fusion perception system is installed on the mine car, and the high-precision self-positioning system of vision + inertial navigation + GPS/RTK fusion, as well as obstacle recognition, path planning, real-time feedback control and other algorithms , so that it can realize automatic driving, automatic obstacle avoidance, automatic reversing and other actions on specific roads.

In addition, with dedicated roads and a unified control center, intelligent monitoring and intelligent scheduling of mining dump trucks are carried out, so that unmanned mining dump trucks can be linked with 5G remote excavators, which can realize unmanned mines in a true sense, and fundamentally Avoid casualties.

It is understood that the "smart mine unmanned transportation" solution has been commercialized in a large mine in Luoyang, and a total of 40 unmanned mining trucks have been put into use, achieving a monthly production capacity of 500,000 tons. In the future, Boonray Technology will also continue to deepen the development of "smart mine" scenarios and the implementation of projects.

In addition, Boonray Technology is also involved in public space management. Based on technologies such as drones, Internet of Things, AI, and image recognition, Boonray Technology has specially formulated urban management solutions.

Simply put, Boonray Technology builds a real 3D map based on the current city system. Then, the data of the entire area is scattered on the model according to the geographical location, so that the layers are clear. The system solution also has a powerful database, allowing city managers to clearly see historical change information.

In this special plan for urban public space management, Boonray Technology has created a unique aerial inspection mode. Use "God's Perspective" to monitor traffic, river courses, illegal parking, trampling of people and other management blind spots. In Zhangjiang Artificial Intelligence Island, Boonray Technology also connects drone inspections with security robots, unmanned ships, underwater robots and various park sensors, realizing the mutual cooperation between multiple robots and sensors.

Hu Xinyi, CEO of Boonray Technology, said that the solution can realize public safety management, river management monitoring, etc. It is understood that the "Smart City Management Solution" solution has been applied in some parks such as Yuhang City Management, Zhangjiang Artificial Intelligence Island, and Shanghai Xuhui District.

At present, Boonray Technology has served more than 200 well-known enterprises in the industry. It has successively obtained millions of investment from Lianchuang Yongxuan, tens of millions of investment from 23seed and Tuojin Capital. In addition, the company has obtained more than 40 intellectual property rights and patents, and has a relatively deep reserve in the underlying architecture and algorithms. From Boonray Technology, we may be able to see that the era of ubiquitous robots is beginning.