The successful evaluation of ReNAM's use-cases of ramp driving and mixed-traffic scenarios, will foster deployment of autonomous mine trucks in a wider range of scenarios without a need to isolate mining trucks operation area. At a larger scale, advances in onboard perception and integration of its updates to a central Mining Management System is a step towards driverless trucks and complete mine digitalization as new environment data can directly be incorporated, positions of mining vehicles and detected objects can be streamed back and updated live, etc.
LTU will lead the consortium and headline the development of the autonomous guidance navigation, and control solutions for navigation and positioning of mining vehicles. Epiroc will provide expertise in machine interfaces, sensor evaluation and tele remote/autonomous operation for mining vehicles, access to test sites, and testing and evaluation expertise to the project. Algoryx will develop a simulator for validation and verification of the machine autonomy.