Mobile robotics The path is the goal. Future production and logistics will have Maximum autonomy for in the most cramped conditions. This to expand like a spring. This means flexi- mobile robots and platforms means the logistics area can be reduced bility is called for, not only for accelerated by up to 50 %, allowing more space to manufacturing but also for customized KUKA Navigation Solution knows the be used for production. In addition, products. Guaranteeing this flexibility destination and the best way to get there. KMP omniMove vehicles effortlessly cope will require significantly greater mobility – This navigation solution responds spon- with loads of up to 100 metric tons. irrespective of whether the mobility taneously to obstacles and modifications, It could not be more mobile. concepts involved are episodic, periodic and coordinates all known vehicles in or permanent. For this reason, KUKA is the system. Fully in line with Industrie 4.0, laying the groundwork for this techno- its software ensures planning and logy – with platforms that move auto- implementation of orders in a coordi- nomously and intelligently to transport nated way – even in conjunction with items or process workpieces. Or with higher-level control systems. It registers platforms that find their own way if data from safety laser scanners and radar required, align themselves with work- sensors, and uses the SLAM method pieces with millimeter precision or (simultaneous localization and mapping) respond adaptively to changing conditions to create a detailed map of the sur- in demanding logistics and production roundings. By means of this map, the Infallible sense of orientation: sequences through autonomous behavior. platform can respond to changes in mobile automation solutions the surroundings, which are a matter from 阀阀 昀椀nd the way to their destination with unerring Our mobile automation solutions of course in a flexible logistics system. certainty even within highly provide the basis for the highly flexible It’s good to know that the software, complex production environments. production world of Industrie 4.0, in which is not dependent on a hardware With or without heavy loads. which rigid, assembly line concepts are platform, can be used for different kine- consigned to history, and the future matic systems. It enables any motion belongs to productivity spaces that principles to be handled – and of course can be continuously optimized. Even also holonomic vehicles with Mecanum complete production units can be wheels, such as the KMP omniMove. repositioned somewhere else on an ad hoc basis. This new type of mobility These vehicles offer unrestricted maneu- sounds like science fiction. But at KUKA, verability in every direction, including it is scientific fact. This means we are rotating the robot about its own axis. providing the blueprint for mobile auto- As a freely scalable modular system, it mation solutions with which every can be precisely adapted to the specific industrial company can gear up for the requirements in terms of size, length flexible, digitally networked world of and width. With its omnidirectional production. wheels, the vehicle can be used even 阀阀 昀氀exMOVER CarryPick Automated guided Designed to be modular vehicle for the and multifunctional, smart factory: CarryPick from Swisslog the 阀阀 昀氀exMOVER consists of mobile racks is the 昀氀exible helper and automated guided for all requirements, vehicles for goods-to- from the distribution person picking. of materials through to integration in complex assembly systems. 38�39