On September 3, the 2022 World artificial intelligence conference ended. At this conference, the concept of the meta universe based on AI was brilliant, and the industrial meta universe that has been first applied also entered the public eye for the first time.
Based on the concept of "integration of data and reality, industrial Yuan generation", China Baowu group has released ten industrial yuan universe application scenarios with broad prospects: including remote equipment control, collaborative R & D and design, equipment collaborative operation, flexible auxiliary assembly, on-site auxiliary assembly, machine vision quality inspection, equipment fault diagnosis, intelligent logistics in the plant area, unmanned intelligent patrol inspection, production site detection, etc.
Huituo, a smart mining technology and service provider, showed the world at the conference that China's "digital human miner" built by relying on independently developed technology can turn the mining industry, which used to have a bad working environment, high safety risks and a shortage of labor, into a safe and efficient intelligent industry.
Meta universe landing
Since roblox, an American game company, was successfully listed in 2021 under the aura of "the first share of the meta universe", major enterprises have unfolded the layout of the meta universe one after another. On May 24 this year, during the build2022 developer conference held by Microsoft, Microsoft announced that it would introduce its virtual experience platform mesh into the office software system Microsoft to create an "enterprise version of the meta universe". What is more noteworthy is that Microsoft introduced its exploration results in the industrial metaverse for the first time, and Kawasaki heavy industries has become a new customer of its "industrial metaverse" business. Kawasaki heavy industries plans to let workshop workers wear Microsoft hololens headsets to assist in production, maintenance and supply chain management. At present, Microsoft's industrial metaverse has two important customers, Heinz and Boeing.
In addition to Microsoft's entry into the "industrial meta universe", NVIDIA, another technology giant, also aims at the "industrial meta universe". Based on Omniverse platform, AI, computing and other technologies, NVIDIA can achieve the results of building the industrial meta universe. On June 30, Siemens announced further cooperation with NVIDIA. The two sides will build an industrial meta universe platform based on NVIDIA Omniverse to upgrade the traditional manufacturing industry through immersive industrial simulation throughout the life cycle of design and operation.
According to the prediction of the consulting agency, by 2025, the industrial metaverse will drive the global intelligent manufacturing market to exceed 540 billion US dollars, with a compound growth rate of 15.35% from 2021 to 2025.
In China, Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, Netease and other domestic Internet enterprises have also followed up and added code to the meta universe layout. Metaverse is becoming the explosion point of many industries, such as industrial Internet, intelligent manufacturing and digitalization.
The 2022 Research Report on China's industrial yuan universe industry released by yiou think tank shows that in the short term, the consumption yuan universe is more explosive, and in the long term, the industrial yuan universe is more stable and more acceptable to the society. It is expected that by 2020, the development foundation and supporting capacity of intelligent manufacturing will be significantly enhanced, digital manufacturing will be basically realized in key areas of traditional manufacturing, and intelligent transformation of key industries with conditions and foundations will make significant progress. It is expected that by 2025, the intelligent manufacturing support system will be basically established, and key industries will initially achieve intelligent transformation.
Not only are the major technology giants competing to layout the meta universe track, but also the relevant government departments of some countries are actively participating in it. In May last year, the Ministry of science, technology and information and communication of the Republic of Korea initiated the establishment of the "meta universe alliance", which includes more than 200 Korean enterprises and organizations such as Hyundai, SK group and LG Group. Its goal is to build a national augmented reality platform and provide public virtual services to the society in the future.
The white paper on the development of virtual reality industry 5.0 issued by the Ministry of industry and information technology clearly proposes to "promote the industrialization of virtual reality technology through financial funds and support the application of virtual reality technology in key industries such as industry, culture and education". Starting from 2022, many domestic governments have also started to promote the forward-looking layout of the meta universe industry, and have successively introduced relevant supporting policies, built industrial parks, established special funds, introduced relevant enterprises and talents, and guided the development of the meta universe industry. According to statistics, as of July 2022, local governments of at least 7 provinces and 17 cities in China have issued relevant construction plans for the meta universe industry, encouraging the application of the meta universe in fields including industrial manufacturing, social entertainment and so on, and promoting the integration of the meta universe with the real economy, including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi and so on. Tongzhou District is the area where Beijing clearly proposes to "accelerate the construction of the meta universe application innovation center".
What is the future direction of the meta universe? This year, during the local and national two sessions, many proposals focused on the development of metaverse technology and industry, including the introduction of the top-level design scheme of "metaverse China" as soon as possible; Promote the research and development of key software and hardware technologies and core components of "metaverse", open up the industrial value chain of metaverse, and strengthen and supplement the existing industrial chain; Accelerate the development of local yuancosmos specialized and special new enterprises.
Recently, Vice Minister of industry and Information Technology Wang Jiangping investigated the application of virtual reality and other new generation information technologies in the industrial manufacturing field in Beijing and held a symposium. He stressed that it is necessary to carry out in-depth research on how virtual reality and other new generation information technologies can empower the industrial field, further accelerate the application of virtual reality and other technologies in all walks of life, aim at the pain points and difficulties of the industry, and constantly improve the depth and breadth of application.
At the 2022 global metaverse conference held on August 18, Ni Jianzhong, chairman of the global metaverse conference and executive chairman of China Mobile Communications Federation, said that currently, metaverse is perfectly interconnected and integrated with the development of new concepts, new formats, new models and multiple industries, and gradually becomes an important force for restructuring Global factor resources, reshaping the global industrial structure and changing the global industrial development.
Compared with the consumption meta universe, the industrial meta universe pays more attention to the process of "from virtual to real" and focuses on solving the exact problems in the exact scene. Many insiders have analyzed that the industrial metaverse will cover the whole chain of industrial production, and the application value of metaverse in the industrial field may be far greater than that in the consumer field.
The meta universe in the mine
Beyond the public view, the core theory and key technologies of the metauniverse have been applied in the field of industrial mines, and have achieved remarkable results.
In Baorixile opencast coal mine in Inner Mongolia, unmanned mining vehicles without drivers are shuttling freely in the mine area. In a temporary dispatching command center not far from the mining area, young technicians are concentrating on the large screen in front of them to control and monitor the operation of these mining cars in real time.
They use a set of "Yugong" parallel mine operation system developed by huituo. The previous mine driverless solutions could not solve the traffic problem at the crossroads of the mining area.
"There will always be a miner stopping at the intersection, and this intersection is not necessarily a flat road. The miner loaded dozens of tons of goods and stopped on the ramp. After a long time, the brake pad will fail, which will cause slope sliding, which is very dangerous." An engineer in the field said.
In the "Yugong" parallel mine operating system, the basic environment of "mining meta universe" will be built with high-precision three-dimensional geological models, which will correspond to the actual mine cars and mine scenes to build a virtual real interactive parallel mine system. The core technologies such as parallel point cloud, parallel learning and parallel planning are introduced to enable the learning and accumulation of virtual mine data and real mine vehicle data to "eat more cuts and grow more intelligent", realize intelligent prediction of the operating state of all unmanned mine cars, and finally guide the actual mine to move towards the safe, reliable, efficient, green, intelligent and sustainable road explored in the "mining meta universe", Finally, the whole operation process of unmanned mine is safe, efficient and low consumption.
At the early stage of "Yugong Yugong" deployment, it was verified with the help of "mining metauniverse", which provided a comprehensive guarantee for the safety of mine related personnel and property during the development, test and operation of the unmanned driving system. By conducting all-weather, all-time and whole process simulation tests on dangerous working conditions such as passing, following, obstacle avoidance and slope unloading in a virtual environment, "mining metauniverse" has thoroughly verified the safety distance of mining cars, comprehensively analyzed the control parameters of the whole process of "mining, transportation and disposal" of unmanned mining cars under extreme cold, night work, heavy load and other conditions, and its intelligent planning scheme for cooperative operation with mining, engineering and auxiliary vehicle equipment.
The application of "mining meta universe" has greatly reduced the risk coefficient of field testing. The national energy group Baorixile project is located in the high latitude and extremely cold zone, and the minimum temperature in winter can reach - 42 ° C. huituo carried out field testing based on data results such as the safe braking distance verified by the system, avoided the impact of extreme weather on test safety, fully guaranteed the safety of personnel and equipment on the production site, and through accelerated algorithm training, Shorten the time of on-site commissioning, improve the speed of project deployment, reduce the cost of on-site testing while helping mining enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency with intelligence, and greatly reduce the impact of testing on production activities.
At the intelligent driving forum of the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference "data connected travel, intelligent leading the future", Wang Feiyue, director of the State Key Laboratory of complex system management and control of the Institute of automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, delivered a keynote speech on "from intelligent vehicle to vehicle intelligence of intelligent travel: parallel driving of Yuan vehicles in the meta universe". As the chief scientist of huituo, Professor Wang Feiyue pointed out in his speech: at present, we are developing from the traditional "virtual reality opposition" to the "virtual reality interaction" in the intelligent era. Data is the main raw material for generating intelligence. Big data is produced from small data, and then precise knowledge or deep intelligence aiming at specific scenarios and problems is extracted from big data. That is, the process of "small data big data deep intelligence" will become the standard process of the intelligent industry. The combination of "biological human", "digital human" and "robot" will turn small data into big data and big data into deep intelligence. Artificial intelligence will not only change people's travel mode, urban form and enterprise production mode, but also bring changes to social form, people's life style and thinking mode.
Metaverse is to build a virtual world through the reproduction of the real world, so as to realize the simulation of production, life and other aspects. After that, by predicting the real world and pushing a variety of possibilities in the virtual world with the help of computing power, the solution is more comprehensive. With the progress of scientific and technological means and industrial development, the construction of intelligent mines in China has gone through the stages of artificial blasting mining, ordinary mechanized mining, comprehensive mechanized mining and intelligent equipment mining. Now it is gradually developing into an application scenario of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology that combines "bio human miner", "digital human miner" and "robot miner". The edge, job site and cloud are closely integrated, The disorderly emergence of physical space is classified as the orderly convergence of virtual space, and then it diverges from the emergence of virtual space and converges in physical space to form a cycle and realize the automation of core knowledge. "Mining meta universe" will further utilize and release the power of computer simulation to provide support for improving the "mining, transportation and discharge" process of existing mines and building an intelligent mine management and operation system in the new era.
The application case of "Yugong" parallel mine operation system in four major industries of coal, metallurgy, nonferrous metals and cement shows that huituo's technical strength, engineering strength and independent innovation technology as a "national team" science and technology enterprise enable the mining industry, a traditional industry, to develop intelligently and high-end. With the "digital human miner", huituo will build a 6S mine that is safe, secure, sustainable, sensitive, service-oriented and intelligent by creating a stable, safe and reliable "mining meta universe" to control reality with virtual reality.
At present, "Yugong" parallel mine operating system has been applied and repurchased in unmanned and intelligent projects of energy and mining groups such as national energy group, China Huaneng, state power investment, China Datang, China Baowu, China Coal Group, BBMG group and China Resources Cement, helping these enterprises achieve digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading and achieve the goal of "double carbon".
"Mining meta universe" is also changing the training and management mode of mining industry personnel. With virtual vehicles, the mine can conduct remote driving and system operation technical training for drivers and safety officers while deploying on the spot, so as to ensure safe production while shortening the running in period and improving the landing efficiency of the project. At present, xiaobaodang coal mine of Shaanxi coal group, which has applied this technology, can monitor the status of underground vehicles in real time through the system, and let trainees conduct driving technical training in virtual space, so as to avoid the safety risks caused by personnel misoperation during underground field training.
By constantly obtaining information and analyzing uncertainty and diversity, "mining meta universe" can continuously strengthen its agility, focusing ability, convergence to goals and ability to complete tasks. In the past, "taking a fall and gaining wisdom" was achieved by breaking blood in real space and even combining life's "taking a fall" in exchange for "gaining wisdom" in virtual space. This mode is too costly for energy and mining enterprises that take safety production as the red line and bottom line, and for every individual who participates in production activities. The artificial intelligence system that exposes and resolves all contradictions in the "mining meta universe" and realizes "eating many snags" fully reflects the development trend of low cost, high efficiency and high intelligence in the mining industry.
It can be predicted that in the near future, the production capacity of a mine may not only depend on its actual production scale and efficiency, but also on the production scale and efficiency of the associated software defined artificial mine. As the first scene to be applied in the field of metaverse, mine metaverse will effectively promote industrial and mining enterprises to master the right to speak in the digital era and become the best solution for the engineering implementation of mine metaverse.
