Wind River and TAGE team to advance autonomous mining

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Software company Wind River is collaborating with open-pit miningsolutions provider Beijing TAGE Idriver Technology (TAGE) on a cutting-edgesoftware platform for the development of next-generation autonomous miningvehicles.

The mining industry is advancing to fullyautonomous vehicles and machinery in order to improve safety, increaseproductivity, and save costs.

TAGE has developed an autonomous haulage system solution based on an edge to cloud architecture, including an intelligent cloud platform

"The open-pit mining industry has massivepotential around the globe, and this collaboration brings togetherbest-in-class technology and expertise that is paving the way fornext-generation mining vehicles," said Huang Liming, chief technology officerof TAGE in a media release.

TAGE has developed an autonomous haulage system solution based on an edge to cloud architecture, including an intelligent cloud platform, V2X telematics, and intelligent autonomous mining vehicle.

The software platform powering this solutionincludes the Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS), alongwith TAGE's central control unit (CCU) core algorithm module.

Wind River and TAGE said they will also work on development environments and functional safety certifications to launch practical products and solutions.

Given the increasing compute demands of autonomous vehicles, the two companies will develop infrastructure software for next-generation mine vehicles, including advanced high-performance computing, V2X between vehicles and the infrastructure, and secure over-the-air (OTA) update technologies.