By : Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, June 30, 2022
Russian company KAMAZ, the country’s largest truck manufacturer, has unveiled Jupiter-30, an innovative unmanned all-terrain dump truck without a cab. Weighing 50 tons, it is remotely operated by an operator and can carry up to 30 tons of cargo.
It is an 8.8-meter-long unmanned truck, with an electromechanical transmission, a 450-horsepower engine, an unloading platform with a volume of 21.5 cubic meters, and a loading capacity of 27 tons.
The design does not provide for the participation of the driver at all: the operator will remotely control the movement of the Jupiter along a deserted quarry and during the loading and unloading of minerals.
The Jupiter is a hybrid vehicle: its 11.9-liter engine is driven by a generator that powers the traction motors (one for each wheel) and powers the batteries. Energy is also recovered during braking and downhill motion.
The truck is designed to act in danger zones for heavy vehicles and excavators, according to a company statement.
“The Jupiter was originally designed as an autonomous vehicle for working in a quarry. It is equipped with all the necessary equipment. It has special video cameras protected against dust, dirt, humidity and vibrations, lidar[módulos láser pulsados] in 2D and 3D, ultrasonic sensors and radars. It also has GSM antennas and GPS/GLONASS navigation. Both bridges are swivel, which makes the vehicle very manoeuvrable,” explained Sergei Nazarenko, Chief Designer for Innovative Vehicles at the KAMAZ Design Bureau.
Although the vehicle has a top speed of 56 km/h, it doesn’t need to go around the quarries to get back. It has a ‘shuttle’ maneuver mode: once unloaded, it goes back to the loading place without carrying out the maneuver and, from there, without additional maneuvers, it returns to be loaded again.
“It is the first model in a new line of KAMAZ rigid frame mining dump trucks from the Jupiter family. The next models will have higher capacity and will be developed by the company in the coming years,” Nazarenko said.
This material from the Actualidad RT portal in Spanish was edited for clarity, style and length.
Source and photo Actualidad RT in Spanish : https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/434055-video-kamaz-volquete-robot-rusia
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