Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and Auto Guided Vehicles (AGVs) facilitate the autonomous transport of payloads around the required working environment without human assistance.
The potential benefits are clear:
• Reduction (potentially massive) of time operatives spend walking driving
• Dynamic route optimisation for maximum throughput (Dependent on intelligence levels)
• Allow operative to focus on value-add tasks
• Improve safety
There are many types available offering range of capabilities from basic systems requiring infrastructure for navigation such as wires/tapes to intelligent vehicle that navigate without external infrastructure and have the intelligence to calculate the shortest or optimal route between pick and place points. Inappropriate selection can result in lengthy unproductive evaluations, workflow disruption and potential for degraded operational performance.
