The entry of many construction machinery manufacturers can confirm the industry's interest in the application of mobile robots. With the rapid development of AGV applications, more and more enterprises have started to enter this field. In addition to traditional AGV enterprises, start-up companies and logistics integrators, in recent years, a number of large machinery and equipment manufacturers have also started to develop related products. Starting out as a port machine, Zhenhua is one of the world's largest manufacturers of port machinery and heavy equipment. Zhenhua has been involved in automation since 1998, in 2000, it provided four twin-car Quay Bridges for Port of Hamburg CTA Automation Terminal. In 2002, it began to develop AGV. In 2005, it successfully developed the first generation of straddle carrier. In 2008, it was supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China 863, successfully developed and completed the demonstration line of the automated terminal. At this point, Zhenhua has extensive experience in software and hardware for automated terminal control systems and is capable of providing a holistic solution. In terms of AGV development, Zhenhua's products are mainly port AGV. In the Qingdao Port Automated Terminal Project, Zhenhua provided Qingdao Port with seven quayside bridges, 20 automated rail cranes, 38 automated guided vehicles (L-AGV) , a fixed crane and equipment control and management systems for the terminal. Among them, Zhenhua developed the latest generation of automated guided vehicle (L-AGV) with its own lifting function, which can lift containers by itself; Zhenhua also provided 88 agvs for the fourth phase of the Yangshan Port project. In 2019, Zhenhua built a new generation of "IGV" in the fourth phase of the Port of Guangzhou Nansha project, the first fully automated port in the Guangdong-hong Kong-macao Bay area, autonomous Intelligent guided vehicle (IGV) , as a horizontal transportation equipment, will adopt multi-sensor fusion localization technology such as satellite navigation, SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) , visual SLAM, etc. , iGV vehicles are much more flexible than previous automated docks that used automated guided vehicles to lay down tens of thousands of magnetic spikes to provide navigation and determine AGV vehicle routes, Zhenhua says, this intelligent, efficient and low-cost scheme provides a new technical route for the future development of automated terminals. LIUGONGFU —— A number of AGV products for Intelligent Logistics Industry Liugong has been praised as "the leader of China's construction machinery industry" . "Overall Intelligence" is one of Liugong's three strategies. Liugong is combining traditional industries with modern science and technology, especially the organic combination of IT, Internet and intelligent technology, its leading loaders, excavators, rollers, forklifts and other products through equipment intelligence, manufacturing intelligence and post-market intelligence to achieve enterprise industrial transformation and upgrading. In the aspect of equipment intelligence, liugong forklift has been involved in the field of intelligent industrial vehicles to provide customers with comprehensive intelligent logistics solutions. In 2014, Liugong began market research and technical development of AGV products. Through the joint efforts of all the R & D teams, Liugong's first latent AGV series automatic navigation vehicle was born. Since then, Liugong has developed a series of products based on this, at present, its AGV products have traction type, forklift type, handling type, latent type and other forms of transfer. From the driving form, Liugong not only has single-wheel, two-wheel and multi-wheel-driven Omnidirectional agv, in the form of guidance, Liugong R & D products including laser navigation products. In fact, Liugong not only provides intelligent industrial vehicle products, but also provides customers with integrated intelligent logistics system solutions, Liugong forklift truck now has a more mature set of intelligent logistics solutions, the whole solution of AGV intelligent logistics can realize the unmanned operation of the factory, and can connect with the WMS storage management system and MES production process execution system of the customer seamlessly, so as to reduce the manpower cost and improve the production efficiency. Zoomlion Foshan was founded in 1992 from the Zoomlion, mainly engaged in construction machinery, agricultural machinery and other high-tech Equipment R & D and manufacturing. On the basis of existing forklift technology, zoomlion has also started to step by step in recent years AGV research and development. In 2018, zoomlion launched the TB20V1 series AGV forklift truck, which was developed by zoomlion industrial vehicles in collaboration with a robotics research institute in Wuhu, mainly through magnetic navigation technology to achieve automatic guidance, and according to the user's own programming instructions to complete the corresponding action; and through the mobile phone APP, remote control. Officials at zoomlion heavy industry vehicles have said that AGV is one of the company's product intelligence development plans and strategic goals, through increasing the proportion of forklift technology, customer customization, specialization route. Based on the experience of magnetic guided AGV forklift technology, zoomlion will develop laser guided AGV products. Lingong group Lingong Group wholly-owned subsidiary Linyi Lingong Intelligent Information Technology Co. , Ltd. (abbreviation: Lingong intelligent science and technology) , formerly a service in the group's internal automation, Intelligent Project Research and development team, from 2016 to the market, its series of AGV products are well received by the market. At present, the intelligent logistics AGV product line of Lin Gong Zhi branch includes: Knapsack type, sneak type, traction type, forklift type, etc. . Lin Gong AGV is mainly used in the distribution of interior decoration line, the transportation of sub-assembly line and the material distribution of welding and assembly line in commercial vehicle industry, in addition, there are parts industry and heavy industry in the field of material transportation. From 4.5 million yuan in 2016 to more than 110 million yuan in 2019, the order form has grown geometrically for four consecutive years. Among a large number of enterprises, the order form has been among the forefront of the industry. According to the social environment and the development trend of the industry, the department has also formulated the strategic development plan for the next 5 years. By the end of 2020, the company's order book is projected to reach 220 million yuan, and by 2025 the company's order book will reach 1.5 billion yuan. Since its establishment in 1994, sany heavy industry has maintained rapid growth and has developed into a leading international manufacturer of construction machinery. Sany actively promotes the application of robotics, automation systems, Internet of things, visual recognition, AI and other technologies to enhance the level of manufacturing process, production efficiency, significantly improve manufacturing costs. In 2019, Sany heavy industries, China Telecom and Huawei jointly launched a 5g-based intelligent networked cloud AGV project, which combines 5G, MEC and AI technologies, the navigation of AGV laser radar is based on the visual navigation of 5G AGV, and the depth learning algorithm is moved to the platform of 5G edge computing, which greatly reduces the complexity and cost of the single machine, improving the level of intelligence and standardization of AGV. The Algorithm experts of Sany heavy industry research institute innovatively converged the high-definition Camera, radar and other sensor data of AGV's end-side to the side of MEC's edge server through 5G industrial network with ultra-low delay and ultra-large bandwidth. By using self-developed Algorithms such as visual perception and depth learning in MEC side, local large factory data are formed in MEC side, and the intelligent analysis of factory operation scene is realized. Sany's cloud based AGV product is currently being integrated with Huawei's 5G module, with a commercial product planned for Q1 by 2020.
