煤矿井下无轨胶轮车无人驾驶系统研究

Research on unmanned driving system of underground trackless rubber-tyred vehicle in coal mine

  • 摘要: 煤矿井下无轨胶轮车无人驾驶可大幅减少井下辅助运输作业人员数量,降低人员劳动强度,是辅助运输智能化的主要发展方向之一。相较于地面汽车无人驾驶,煤矿井下无轨胶轮车无人驾驶存在一系列新的挑战:井下巷道“长廊效应”、“多径效应”干扰;狭窄场景内人车混行等复杂路况对车辆精准控制的高要求;井下卫星拒止环境带来的定位问题;井下光照多变且巷道壁阻挡影响机器视觉的应用;设备需满足MA认证;安全措施需多重冗余设计等。针对上述挑战,提出了以车联网为核心的煤矿井下无轨胶轮车无人驾驶系统架构,分析了系统实现的关键技术:利用基于激光同步定位与建图(SLAM)和超宽带(UWB)/惯性导航系统(INS)的组合定位方式,实现车辆高速移动状态下的精确定位;依托车身多传感器(毫米波雷达、激光雷达、超声波雷达、摄像头)、矿用智能路侧单元等识别车身周边路况信息,并通过车联网共享相关信息;利用多源数据采集技术获得环境感知数据、车辆运行数据、路侧监控数据、移动目标数据,海量数据经5G等无线通信网络交互至基于边缘计算的分布式算力单元融合分析后,结合全局和局部路径规划算法合理规划车辆行驶路径,实现仓库管理系统化的车辆智能调度;考虑到井下机电设备安全准入要求,感知、线控、决策控制装备需实现矿用化设计且应尽量采用矿用本安型产品,以满足成本低、体积小、效率高的设计需求;井下无人驾驶车辆需实现感知、决策与控制环节的冗余设计,以实现非正常状况下车辆的安全可靠控制。现场测试结果表明:车辆定位精度可达0.3 m,通信带宽≥50 Mbit/s,数据通信时延≤50 ms,定位精度和数据交互满足井下无人驾驶基本需求;针对T形支巷及U型弯道等典型环境可实现避障及连续路径规划;基于多传感器融合策略,可实现多种目标感知能力提升;车辆动态跟随误差<0.54 m/s,垂直于巷道壁方向平均控制误差<0.2 m,满足无人驾驶车辆的控制要求。

     

    Abstract: The unmanned driving of underground trackless rubber-tyred vehicles in coal mine can significantly reduce the number of underground auxiliary transportation operating personnel, and reduce labor intensity. It is one of the leading development directions of intelligent auxiliary transportation. Compared with the unmanned driving of the ground vehicles, there are a series of new challenges for unmanned driving of underground trackless rubber-tyred vehicles. There is the interference of 'corridor effect' and 'multipath effect' in the underground roadway. There are high requirements for precise vehicle control under complex road conditions such as mixed traffic in narrow scenes. The underground satellite refusal environment causes positioning problems. Machine vision application is affected by the changeable illumination underground and the blocking of the roadway wall. The equipment shall meet MA certification. Multiple redundancy design is required for safety measures. In order to solve the above challenges, the architecture of the unmanned driving system for underground trackless rubber-tyred vehicle in coal mine based on the vehicle-to-everything is proposed. And the critical technologies of system implementation are analyzed. The integrated positioning method based on simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and ultra wide band (UWB)/inertial navigation system (INS) is used to realize the precise positioning of the vehicle in the state of high-speed movement. By relying on the multi-sensor (millimeter-wave radar, laser radar, ultrasonic radar, camera) of the vehicle body and mining intelligent roadside unit, the road condition information around the vehicle body is identified. Through the vehicle-to-everything, the relevant information is shared. The multi-source data acquisition technology is used to obtain environmental perception data, vehicle operation data, roadside monitoring data, and mobile target data. The massive data is exchanged through 5G and other wireless communication networks to the distributed computing unit based on edge computing for fusion analysis. The vehicle driving path is reasonably planned in combination with global and local path planning algorithms to realize the systematic vehicle intelligent scheduling of warehouse management. Considering the safety access requirements of underground electromechanical equipment, the perception, wire control and decision-making control equipment shall be designed for mining. The mining intrinsically safe products shall be used as far as possible to meet the design requirements of low cost, small volume and high efficiency. Underground unmanned driving vehicles need to realize the redundant design of perception, decision-making and control links to realize the safe and reliable control of vehicles under abnormal conditions. The field test results show that the vehicle positioning precision can reach 0.3 m. The communication bandwidth is more than or equal to 50 Mbit/s. The data communication delay is less than or equal to 50 ms. Therefore the positioning precision and data exchange can meet the basic requirements of underground unmanned driving vehicles. The obstacle avoidance and continuous path planning can be realized for typical environments such as T-shaped roadway and U-shaped curve. Based on the multi-sensor fusion strategy, the perception capability of multiple targets can be improved. The vehicle dynamic following error is less than 0.54 m/s, and the average control error perpendicular to the roadway wall is less than 0.2 m. These results meet the control requirements of unmanned driving vehicles.

     

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