Tech Boosts Safety | You Won't Believe This! Can Large Vessels at Ports Also Achieve Autonomous Driving?

Release time:

2025-06-13

Vehicle positioning, navigation, and correction

It's a technology we're all familiar with.

Widely used in passenger vehicles.

When these technologies come to the large trucks at the port terminals,

What kind of sparks will fly this time?

HIRI FUTURE is in By fully leveraging AI visual recognition technology in conjunction with the Beidou satellite-based positioning and navigation system, we’ve enabled large vehicles at port terminals to possess Autonomous driving capabilities—positioning and navigation, path correction, and cross-road transitions. Active Collision Prevention (Click to view the Gantry Collision Prevent System) Wait—comprehensively enhance the automation level of ports and help achieve a new leap in safe port operations and production.

Large Vehicle Positioning and Correction System

HIRI FUTURE has independently developed a large-vehicle positioning and correction system. The system uses high-definition cameras to capture footage of large vehicles in motion, and employs a high-performance AI recognizer and the BDS Beidou satellite positioning and navigation system. ^*， Real-time detection of the large vehicle’s travel posture, determination of its current location, the extent and direction of any deviation, and implementation of controls to slow down, stop, and correct the vehicle’s steering. Achieve precise positioning and navigation for large vehicles, as well as straight and stable driving routes.

The system also supports large vehicles. Automatic berthing (automatic battery swap when entering or leaving the yard), Automatic crossing and automatic transfer (from the current yard to the opposite/adjacent yard via Autonomous driving) Wait Functionality that enables the transition from manned equipment to fully automated “unmanned” robots.

^* Note: In addition to the BDS BeiDou Satellite Navigation System, it also supports GNSS “Five-Star Sixteen-Frequency,” which encompasses China’s BDS, the U.S. GPS, Europe’s GALILEO, Russia’s GLONASS, and Japan’s QZSS—totaling five satellite navigation systems. The receiver can process signals from sixteen frequency channels.

Core System Advantages

Lower cost

Traditional solutions require positioning aids such as sliding contact lines, ground magnetic nails, and signal amplification antennas, which are difficult to install, slow to implement, and suffer from reduced reliability over time; HIRI FUTURE By simply leveraging algorithms to enhance the native camera of a device, stable and reliable distortion correction can be achieved at low cost. 。

Better standard

The standard for large vehicle correction required by mainstream industries is within 5 centimeters. HIRI FUTURE’s visual solution, whether at high or low speeds, The deviation correction standard can all be kept within 3 centimeters. , the standard for corrective protection is higher.

More reliable

Modeling and debugging based on extensive port data, integrating machine autonomous learning capabilities. Achieves highly reliable steering correction and protection—even in conditions such as damaged ground markings or overgrown grass, it can still perform stable and dependable steering correction.

Dual redundancy

Dual-redundant AI vision solution and traditional solution When satellite signals are blocked or失效, the AI vision solution can still independently perform positioning, navigation, and correction and protection. Even when ground markings are missing or damaged and cannot be recognized by visual systems, traditional solutions can still independently carry out positioning, navigation, and correction and protection.

Lightweight installation

The control algorithm is integrated into the host computer. Control of the device and PLC modifications can be minimized. Reduce the impact of automation upgrades on existing facilities and systems.

Fujian Electronic Port

Fujian Electronic Port Co., Ltd. is a leading high-tech enterprise in China’s port sector, specializing in the application of artificial intelligence. Its brand, “HIRI FUTURE,” is a leader in AI products and solutions for the port sector. The company Focusing on technological innovation that integrates algorithm research in the field of artificial intelligence with software and hardware development. Providing a comprehensive suite of solutions for ports, including safe operational production, process improvement, machine vision automation applications, and AI-powered operations and scheduling.

Innovative strength

The company is a key high-tech enterprise receiving provincial-level support and has published over 20 cutting-edge academic papers in the field of artificial intelligence. It has accumulated more than 50 invention patents and software copyrights in the field of AI-powered port applications, and has successfully developed over 40 intelligent port products.

Professional R&D team

Our company team has over 90 members, with product design and R&D personnel accounting for more than 80%. Most of our team members hold master’s degrees or higher from universities ranked among the “985 Project” institutions, and we have several staff members with over 10 years of experience in port project management.

Global service capabilities

The company’s intelligent products have been deployed in multiple large-scale ports, with over 2,500 sets of port-intelligent products already implemented. The company boasts extensive practical experience in the field of terminal intelligence.

Editor: Pan Yanling

Proofreading: Lai Zhiwei

Reviewed by: Zhang Weitian

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