DEVELON is celebrating after winning honours in two of the categories in the CES 2024 Innovation Awards to be announced during the CES 2024 electronics trade show in Las Vegas next week.
In the first category – Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility – Develon presented ‘Smart Collision Mitigation (SCM) with Sensor Fusion’. SCM is described as an active safety system that detects objects around excavators through sensor fusion of camera and radar. The digger is equipped with four or more cameras to provide a 360-degree all around view.
Using AI technology, it can selectively detect people or objects, while three wide-angle radar sensors with 180-degree horizontal field of view (FOV) are used to minimise blind spots and measure the distance of detected objects.
When a pedestrian or object is detected within the warning/danger zone, visual/audible warnings are activated, and the swing and driving speed on the excavator are reduced and then automatically stopped to prevent accidents.
Develon said it is the first construction equipment manufacturer in the world to use fusion technology to supplement a machine’s cameras and radars.
The company’s X-Agent system was honoured in the second category – Mobile Devices, Accessories & Apps. X-Agent is designed to improve the productivity and skill of drivers of excavators, wheel loaders and articulated dump trucks.
X-Agent has an AI function that analyses information such as driver/equipment status and work plan to create an optimised route to improve the productivity of unskilled workers by ‘about 30%.’
For remote control using vision information, Develon added that it extracts meta information based on the networks and sends minimum information even in an incomplete network environment. This is said to allow for ‘smooth’ remote operation.
Develon’s advanced technologies portfolio will be a feature of the company’s stand at Intermat in Paris in April, as part of a display under the theme of ‘Powered by Innovation’, including the first demonstration in Europe of the Develon Concept-X 2.0 autonomous construction equipment solution.
