ABACAS - Autonomous Baggage Automation for Changi Airport Stakeholders

Abacas将使用自动驾驶车辆技术，为航空业提供更安全、更高效的行李处理。尽管目前由于全球大流行而陷入低迷，但预计未来18年全球航空乘客数量将翻一番。机场都面临着挑战，如何更有效地利用现有建筑和基础设施来处理这种急剧增加的行李，以及随之而来的行李数量的增加。如今的行李处理系统通常从装满分拣设备的大厅开始，将托运的行李集中到一个传输系统上，在该系统中，标签被扫描，从而使行李能够手动装入单位装载装置(ULD)集装箱。然后，ULD被推到被称为推车的拖车上，拖车由电动拖船以4人为一组的列车牵引。这类系统的效率受到行李大厅内可用物理空间的限制，行李大厅通常位于航站楼主楼下方，没有扩展的空间。此外，从健康和安全的角度来看，行李搬运工的工作条件最好被描述为“敌意”。它们与加油器、飞行中的餐饮车辆、拖船、工程车辆和飞机本身争夺空间，在极端的光线(昼夜)、温度(夏季和冬季)以及车辆和机器过多的噪音条件下争夺空间。Abacas项目将通过开发技术将每一辆拖车变成自动推车(AutoDolly)来克服这些挑战。这将使更多的ULD能够在相同的可用空间内以更高效的方式移动，因为每个ULD都可以唯一地移动。8辆自带ULD的自动小推车可以与拖船和4辆传统拖车放在同一空间，这将立即导致运力翻一番。ABACAS将由RDM交付，RDM是一家总部位于考文垂的中小企业，是国际公认的自主技术领先者，新加坡国际机场运营商樟宜机场集团(CAG)和新加坡民航局(CAAS)是飞机和机场侧操作安全和先进技术实施的先驱。该项目将建立在以前的Innovate UK项目中产生的新想法和新技术的基础上；Sum和T-CAB。这一总部位于英国的知识产权将被用作机场侧自动驾驶系统进一步创新的基础。通过这个项目，RDM将把电动AutoDolly系统推向市场，这些系统将增强英国航空业的竞争力和健壮性，并使工作机舱更安全。

ABACAS will use self-driving vehicle technology to enable safer and more efficient baggage handling for the aviation industry.Despite the current downturn due to the Global Pandemic, worldwide air passenger numbers are estimated to double in the next 18 years. Airports all face the challenge of using existing buildings and infrastructure more efficiently to handle this dramatic increase, and the subsequent increased volumes of baggage.Today's baggage handling systems typically start in a hall full of sorting equipment to bring checked bags together onto a conveyor system where tags are scanned, enabling bags to be manually packed into Unit Load Device (ULD) containers. ULDs are then pushed onto trailers, called dollies, that are pulled in trains of 4 by an electric tug. The efficiency of such systems is limited by the physical space available inside the baggage hall, which is typically located underneath the main terminal buildings, with no room for expansion. Furthermore, baggage handlers are working in conditions best described as being 'hostile' from a health and safety perspective. They compete for space with fuellers, in-flight catering vehicles, tugs, engineering vehicles, and the plane itself, and in extreme conditions of light (night and day), temperature (summer and winter) and noise from the plethora of vehicles and machines.The ABACAS project will overcome these challenges by developing technology to turn every trailer into an autonomous dolly (AutoDolly). This will enable many more ULDs to be moved within the same available space, and in a much more efficient manner, as each can move uniquely. 8 autonomous dollies with their own ULDs could be accommodated in the same space as a tug and 4 traditional trailers, leading immediately to a potential doubling of capacity.ABACAS will be delivered by RDM, a Coventry based SME, internationally recognised as a leader in autonomous technology, supported by Changi Airports Group (CAG), operator of Singapore international airport and Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), a pioneer of aircraft & airside operational safety and implementation of advanced technology. The project will build upon new ideas and technology arising from previous Innovate UK projects; SWARM and T-CABs. This UK based intellectual property will be used as the foundation for further innovation in airside autonomous systems. Through this project, RDM will take to market the electric AutoDolly systems that will enhance the competitiveness and robustness of the UK's aviation sector and make working airside safer.