Autonomous Navigation Technology (ANT) Explained | An In-Person Demo by Sales Manager David Béguin
Join Area Sales Manager David Béguin as he explores Autonomous Navigation Technology (ANT) by BlueBotics. Explore ANT: https://bluebotics.com/autonomous-nav...
Based on BlueBotics' 20 years of industry experience, ANT natural feature navigation is simple to use and ensures that ANT driven AGVs are cost-effective to install and modify.
0:00 Intro
0:18 About BlueBotics
0:37 Autonomous navigation technologies
0:51 About natural feature navigation
1:05 ANT driven vehicle statistics
1:15 Customer vehicle examples
1:52 BlueBotics engineering services
2:33 How ANT navigation works
3:16 ANT navigation products
3:56 Continuous software improvement (pallet tracker example)
4:23 ANT server fleet management software
4:36 Kinematic examples
5:21 Mission management with ANT server
5:41 Get in touch
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Welcome to our demo. I'm David, Area Sales Manager, and I'm going to tell you about BlueBotics and what we do.
Since 2001, BlueBotics has provided Autonomous Navigation Technology (natural feature) for companies that manufacture AGVs or AMRs, or also for companies that want to automate manual vehicles, such as forklifts or tuggers (tow tractors) for example.
You probably know about different navigation that exists on the market such as line following, tags, or triangulation or even vision guidance. It's not what we do at BlueBotics. We do natural feature navigation, which has the main advantage of keeping the current infrastructure and there's no need to change it to localize the vehicle.
There are more than 2,500 vehicles around the world that are driven by ANT, the BlueBotics registered mark. Here we see different customer vehicles that are automated by ANT.
We have the tugger with two lasers at the front of the vehicle. We have over there a forklift made by Stocklin. And here we have an omni-directional vehicle made by Oppent with two safety lasers at the two opposite corners to have 360 degrees.
About our engineering offer, here we can see the mini™ that is made for cleanrooms. Here we have the mini™ lites that are bases where we can add a platform such as a conveyor, lifter, or also we can add some different engineering components.
For example, here is the mini™ UVC and you can see the base of the vehicle is actually the mini™ lite. And then we have on top UVC lamps to kill viruses.
Now, I will tell you a little bit more about our navigation and how it works. So, as I said, we do
natural feature navigation, which means we use the laser scanner, the 2D LiDAR, that is in any case on the vehicle for safety reasons.
Thanks to these 2D LiDARs we are able to create a map and then on that map we will choose references that are fixed. That means that we never move. Then, based on that map, the vehicle will be localized and then we'll be able to define the routes and actions for the vehicle.
Now about our products, we have ANT localization, ANT localization+ and ANT lite+.
ANT localization is used to give the position of the vehicle related to the map in X, Y and angle.
ANT localization+ is used to retrofit or upgrade line following vehicles.
And ANT lite+ which, with this product, we are able to control the vehicle also and be connected to ANT server.
That's important to mention that we are always improving our software. A good example is the pallet tracker. For example, an operator dropped the pallet slightly to the wrong position, but
thanks to our pallet tracker we are able to see the exact position of the pallet and slightly adapt the path to properly pick up the pallet.
Here we can see how powerful is ANT server. You see all those vehicle are managed by ANT server using the same map.
Here the kinematic is differential. Here we have two vehicles that are tricycle. And over there, omni-directional.
All those vehicles are using the same map and are managed by ANT server, that is also managing the traffic.
The missions are also managed by ANT server again, because it's connected directly to the ERP or WMS of the customer.
If you're looking to automate a vehicle or you want to buy an ANT driven vehicle please go to our internet website (https://www.bluebotics.com).
Thanks very much.