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Self-driving vehicles in the refuse business: some future scenarios

AGENDA:

10.30 Introduction: Fredrik Cederstav (Volvo Advanced Technology & Research) incl. workshop questions 10.45 Presentation of ROAR project. Smart robots collecting garbage bins: Per-Lage Götvall (Volvo ATR) 11.00 An autonomous refuse truck prestudy in collaboration between Volvo and Skövde University. Draft conclusions. 11.15 A Gothenburg automated refuse project: Johan Tofeldt (Volvo ATR) 11.30 Discussion & workshop (25 questions) 11.45 Sum-up and conclusions 12.00 LUNCH

Self-driving vehicles in the mirror

Some global facts:

Traffic accidents caused by human errors

Source: UN world urbanization prospects.

95% 8th 2X Leading cause of deaths globally: Road accidents Increase in delay hours by 2050

Future potential :

Reduction of accidents.

Source: UN world urbanization prospects.

80% 96% 1100 Time a family car is idling. Lives that could be saved if 10% of US vehicles were autonomous..

What’s new ?

Legal aspects

Outlook:

• First cars on public roads in 2017
• Trucks in mines pilot ongoing
• Driving precision will surpass manual driving
• Accidents can be avoided
• Recruitment and hiring drivers is more

difficult

Another hype ?

Source: Victoria Transport Policy institute (2016)

Benefits:

• Safety
• Work environment
• Lower emissions and CO2
• Economy (2-3 shift)
• Lower staff cost
• Utilization of streets
• Better precision
• Catalyzing electromobility

ROAR project

Per-Lage Götvall

ROAR

ROAR

A proof of concept project within the frame of Volvo Group APP that has made a significant global footprint. RObot based Autonomous Refuse handling

• ”How do we get autonomous trucks/machines

working together on a common task?”

• ”How can we address the various aspects of this

problem?”

The basic research questions

GARBAGE HANDLING

Targeted environment

The system set-up

Autonomous Refuse Trucks (ART)

Fredrik Cederstav

Scope

• Investigate and analyze the trends and prerequisites for

semi-or fully automated trucks and robots in urban environments targeting the refuse handling business both in Sweden and in Europe

• Prepare for a pilot in collaboration with customer
• Eight actors have been interviewed so far. Results

DRAFT:

Autonomy levels:

Trends in refuse (1)

Increasing focus on safety at reverse/backing Stronger interest for Molok/underground bins with cranes Tougher requirements on axle loads (≤ 26 t) Diversity in city/ community requirements Side-loaders constant or decreasing volumes Request for smaller vehicles in dense areas (although less profit) Draft: Market Sweden

Trends in refuse (2)

HVO: increasing focus in Sweden Biogas/ natural gas still remains high on political agenda Increasing demand for electrified PTO:s Increased demand for low-entry cab Rear truck foot plate becoming less accepted (Nordic) Increasing ambition for sorting at source (källsortering) Draft: Market Sweden

Although

• Still mostly manual work
• Work related injuries and health still a problem (ex.

knees, slip accidents)

• Not much new technology in last decades
• Trucks look the same but traceability

has increased Draft: Market Sweden

Unexpected trends

• More robotized functions can be worse for work

environment

• Overweights and unbalanced trucks is a hidden problem
• Fires in recycling stations quite common
• 4-compartment (4-facks) trucks increasing from low level
• Very positive view on autonomous truck functions
• Operators have little influence over

municipalities/city demands

• Wild boars (vildsvin)–demands for

underground/ moloker Draft: Market Sweden

A Gothenburg autonomous Refuse project

Johan Tofeldt

Automated Safe and Efficient Transport system

Johan Tofeldt – 2016-10-19

We will use an automated transport system platform to increase the productivity and efficiency. We will validate this in two different environments with two different requirements paradigm to ensure the platforms generality and scalability. One test site will be inside an underground mine using autonomous mine trucks. The other test site will be on public roads using autonomous refuse

• trucks. In the mine we will run completely autonomous trucks in an environment with human traffic

and pedestrians. The refuse truck will go autonomously short distance supervised by an operator

• n public road. We will use an automated transport.

Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYMEl-1q0Qs

Scope

Test

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