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BlueBotics ANT - The smart, autonomous robots
with high mobility for automation tasks in professional applications
Today's
Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) have to meet increasing requirements from the
industrial automation:
They have to be flexible in their movements, if possible
able to freely navigate, should adapt themselves to new
automation processes and have to be installed easily and
at reasonable cost. Industrial users expect an AGV to
find its way in any environment, also a dynamic one,
without adapting the environment to the robot's needs.
The ANT Autonomous Navigation Technology developed by BlueBotics for industrial application and service robotics is the answer to these requirements.
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BlueBotics - ANT - Driven Picking Robot
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Autonomy - more than a trend
This is the domain of the Swiss BlueBotics SA, one of the leading research and
development companies in
mobile
robotics, situated near the prestigious EPF Lausanne. Centrepiece of
BlueBotics vehicles and robots is ANT (Autonomous Navigation Technology). This
unique navigation product facilitates tasks like the positioning of pallets or
the load transfer from storage spaces to trucks and rail wagons.
A perfect example is Paquito, developed by BlueBotics partner Esatroll,
manufacturer of high-tech systems for industry. The industrial forklift equipped
with ANT has a payload of 1200 kg and has been on duty as an autonomous
transport vehicle in different Italian companies since 2009. It moves safely
through factory buildings at a speed of 1.2 m/s, and handles pallets up to a
height of 2.2 m. Paquito can easily be installed and adapts itself rapidly and
cost-effectively to new tasks. Thanks to ANT it moves autonomously and handles
obstacles in a safe way, without being dependent on artificial guidance
landmarks in its surroundings. Due to the clever ANT technology, including
embedded high-precision sensors, wireless communication and a reliable safety
system, Paquito is also the ideal helper for a safe co-operation with humans.
BlueBotics street-smart robots
The co-operation with the KOKEISL Industrial Systems AG, experienced in
industrial production systems, especially for the powder industry, resulted in
the KOKEISL Picking Robot (KPR). The modularly built vehicle, powered again by
ANT, collects bulk materials of different charges, from a few kilograms up to
two tons. The KPR works according to the law of gravity, gathering material in
the vertical direction. By using the KOKEISL automatic shovels, it is able to
dose and assemble receipts and small quantities with the precision of one gram.
Without any difficulty it takes the materials autonomously out of nearly all
containers in the plant and looks tirelessly for the transport between the
warehouse, the dispensing terminals and the mixing stations. In doing so it
moves at a speed of 1.5 m/s and with a precision of 10 mm. Thanks to ANT the
smart assistant does not rely on any orientation help in its surroundings, as it
is able to perceive its environment and to adapt itself automatically to changes
therein. As BlueBotics puts together specialists from computer sciences, micro
engineering and mobile robotics, electrical engineering and systems integration
beneath the same roof, the crew can offer their industrial partners all services
from a single source, from the analysis and the feasibility study to the
properly functioning, made-to-measure vehicle.
For further information contact:
BlueBotics SA
Dr. Nicola Tomatis, CEO
PSE-C, CH-1015 Lausanne
Tel: +41 21 693 83 14
Fax: +41 21 693 83 15
Email: nicola.tomatis@bluebotics.com
Web:
www.bluebotics.com
BlueBotics SA
Article Reference : 020142
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