Swiss navigation chief BlueBotics has launched a brand new model of its ANT server fleet administration software program, which might now management not solely the 100+ ‘ANT pushed’ buyer autos in the marketplace, but additionally VDA 5050-compliant AGVs and AMRs.
March 19, 2024, Stuttgart, DE: Autonomous navigation and AGV fleet administration chief BlueBotics – whose ANT navigation know-how drives over 5,000 AGVs and AMRs around the globe – has expanded the scope of its widespread ANT server mission and fleet administration software program by including compatibility with the German AGV interoperability commonplace VDA 5050.
Because of this, ANT server can now handle not solely the 100+ ‘ANT pushed’ buyer AGVs and AMRs presently in the marketplace, but additionally VDA 5050-compliant AGVs and AMRs from non-ANT pushed manufacturers.
“With this evolution, the widest selection of interoperable AGVs and AMRs in the marketplace simply bought even wider,” stated BlueBotics’ CEO, Dr. Nicola Tomatis.
This product replace additional enhances the choices of organizations that want to deploy or develop fleets of cellular robots. • By migrating to ANT server, organizations that already function fleets of VDA 5050-compliant autos can now select from a fair wider selection of automated autos when rising their fleets. • Organizations that already function fleets of ANT pushed autos acquire the choice of including VDA 5050 autos in future. The interoperability of automated guided autos (AGVs) and autonomous cellular robots (AMRs) is anticipated to play a vital position within the long-term adoption of those applied sciences. BlueBotics and its car maker companions are ideally positioned to facilitate this development, since over 100 ‘ANT pushed’ fashions are already natively interoperable at this time when managed by ANT server.
A number of car interoperability requirements are beneath improvement at this time. The German VDA 5050 AGV communication interface is presently essentially the most superior, forward of equivalents equivalent to MASS within the U.S. and one other in China.
“We’re completely satisfied to deliver this compatibility to ANT server,” Tomatis added. “Even when the performance that VDA 5050 presents at this time stays beneath that of ANT server and its ecosystem of natively interoperable ‘ANT pushed’ autos, this evolution represents a invaluable and vital step within the path of industry-wide multi-brand AGV operations.”
Autonomous Navigation Expertise (ANT) by BlueBotics is the market’s main pure navigation know-how for automated autos. To this point, there are over 5,000 ‘ANT pushed’ AGVs in operation globally, with over 130 totally different fashions already in the marketplace and extra being launched each month.
Be taught extra To discover ANT server and see a multi-brand fleet of ‘ANT pushed’ autos in motion, go to the BlueBotics/ZAPI GROUP stand at LogiMAT 2024 in Stuttgart from March 19 – 21 (corridor 6, stand 6C61).