Autonomous yard truck — Steel
Driverless tractors moving trailers inside ports and plants. Delivered for a steel client in Motera, Ahmedabad.
- Location
- Motera, Ahmedabad
- Year
- 2020
- Duration
- 26 weeks
- Team
- 7 engineers
- 22
- moves per hour
- −77%
- incidents
- −13%
- fuel
The challenge
The steel team was relying on manual effort that could not keep up with volume, and every miss had a direct cost.
What we built
We ran a two-week discovery sprint, then built and fielded the system end to end on ROS 2, Autoware-class and LiDAR SLAM, with operator training and an SLA.
Delivery timeline
Phase 1
Discovery sprint and site survey
Phase 2
Prototype built and tested in the Motera lab
Phase 3
Pilot on site with before/after measurement
Phase 4
Scale-out, training and handover
Highlights
- Designed, built and supported from Motera, Ahmedabad
- Before-and-after measurements agreed with the client up front
- Documentation, drawings and source handed over at close
- Integrated with existing PLC, ERP or GIS systems — no rip-and-replace
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