Development and production platform for unmanned tour route on closed areas on the basis of machine vision systems

Now the world is actively developing the theme of unmanned vehicles. Really – a car without a person is much cheaper to operate, does not require the number of elements of comfort and driver safety, autopilot can select the driving modes, the maximum prolonging of the machine. Unmanned vehicle safer and friendlier to other road users, it will not break the rules, will not be frightened in an emergency, and will not suffer a hangover after the holidays.

But there are obstacles to mass adoption of this technology. It is expensive and cumbersome equipment, the need for applying high-quality markings on all roads on which vehicle is moving (and the impossibility of its application on unpaved roads), provision of relevant mapping, improving the accuracy of determining the coordinates (now without additional ground stations is impossible), change of traffic regulations, car insurance and passengers. Thus, in the near future, without significant modernization of transport infrastructure, the introduction of unmanned technology on the roads is significantly impeded.

However, there are niches where unmanned vehicles can be successfully applied successfully today. This movement on routes on dedicated lanes, excursion activities on closed areas, patrolling a given perimeter, storage and interplant transportation.
Our company has rich experience of production of various types of sightseeing electric vehicles (at the moment certified and produced 12 different models) and the experience of introducing tour routes and at tourist sites. Concordia in 2016-17 organized infrastructure has supplied equipment and managed the project excursion activities on the territory of the Olympic Park of Sochi. The company has not only organizational and technical capabilities to implement the system of freight transport, but also of the financial-mathematical model of recoupment of such business.

Konkordiya, OOO – the largest Russian manufacturer of sightseeing electric vehicle, Golf car and electrographical. In addition to the electric vehicle, the company produces elements of a smart city in the form of small architectural forms on solar energy. The company is the flagship of the domestic industry utilitarian electric vehicle not designed for public roads, it accounts for about 80% of the production of such equipment in Russia.

Konkordiya, OOO has opportunities for full-cycle production of electric cars: own design office, production of components, frames, manufacture of plastics, production of blocks of modern lithium batteries, the Assembly and testing of finished products.

Link to presentation on компанииhttps://youtu.be/wVhgvyyZbTo

According to preliminary calculations, the introduction of a fleet of 10 unmanned electric vehicles on the tour object to the vicinity of 3-5 thousand people a day, will be repaid in 3, 5 years. When scaling the project in a big way, the payback period decreases.

It is planned to introduce in Russia and abroad.

Similar projects, but with the drivers already working in Alushta, Yalta, Sochi, Moscow (Tsaritsino Park). Trips in electric cars are held in many European capitals, and world landmarks.
The tour market of electric vehicles at present exceeds 100 000 units per year, according to the production of this kind of technology in 2019.

The main competitive advantage and know-how of the project – using only the visual and ultrasonic channels receive data, without costly laser radar and positioning systems, due to the advanced machine vision systems and recognition capabilities of a set of objects. For precise positioning, along the route will be applied to special labels that contain the technology of QR codes, and the on-Board computer, through the use of high quality optics with conventional and thermal imaging channel.

In the framework of the project it is planned:

1. To develop software, and to pick up a set of equipment to create a drone tour of the electric vehicle with speed up to 25 km / h
2. To create a pilot sample to test and modify it for use in conditions of mass use
3. To create the final product – a scalable system for the implementation of tour activities on the basis of open unmanned electric vehicles, including tour vehicles, the charging system and administration.
4. To implement the system in pilot mode to one suitable excursion sites, on a cost recovery