Preface; About Activeshuttle System; About Activeshuttle Management System (Ams); Basic Principles - Bosch rexroth ActiveShuttle System Manual

1 Preface

1.1 About ActiveShuttle System

The ActiveShuttle
- automates and standardizes the internal flow of materials and goods,
- implements different transport concepts, from cyclical to consumption based material supply systems.
To ensure the best user experience, the system contains the following components:
• The Fleet Management System ActiveShuttle Management System (AMS)
• The Automated Guided Vehicles ActiveShuttle (AGV)
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Charging Stations

• Hand Controllers
1.1.1 About ActiveShuttle 1.0
ActiveShuttle is an autonomously guided vehicle designed to transport up to 260kg of goods stacked on
dollies. Using the built-in laser scanner and latest SLAM-technology, it navigates freely through an existing
factory environment without the need for artificial
and automatically adds them to the map if they persist.

1.1.2 About ActiveShuttle Management System (AMS)

ActiveShuttle Management Systems (AMS) administers and manages the ActiveShuttle fleet. The software is
browser-based and enables the user to intuitively manage all maps, plan the ActiveShuttle's Paths, and
create and execute Job Templates.
The software also connects to superordinate manufacturing and logistics systems and automatically triggers
Job Templates. Underneath the surface, AMS also serves as the superior authority to manage ActiveShuttle
traffic and coordinate the multiple vehicles for maximum efficiency.
This means the AMS constantly collects all relevant data for optimizing the intralogistics procedures, while
the user is using live view to supervise the system.
AMS is a cloud-based fleet management used to simultaneously control different ActiveShuttles.
AMS allows to securely connect robots to a Fleet Management System while enabling two-way
communication in real time. It also enables the user to manage maps, routes, and Jobs and assign them to
one or more robots. It is structured in microservices, providing a flexible way to scale and add new
functionalities to the platform.

1.1.3 Basic Principles

The ActiveShuttle System is designed to work with Transport Orders, which are also called Jobs. A Job
consists of a place where the load is picked up (Source) and a place where the load is delivered (Sink).
Whenever a Job is triggered, the AMS will pick the ActiveShuttle (AGV) it considers to be the best one to
fulfill the Job. To ensure maximum availability of the fleet, all ActiveShuttles that are not currently executing a
Job will try to find a Charging Station to recharge their battery. If no free Charging Station is available, an idle
ActiveShuttle will go to a Parking Position to wait for the next Job.
To fulfill the Jobs the ActiveShuttles follow a road network consisting of Waypoints connected by edges.
Every edge has a so-called Corridor defined for it which restricts the area in which the ActiveShuttles are
allowed to move. While the ActiveShuttle tries to follow the edges in the middle of the Corridor as closely as
possible, it is allowed to deviate from the edges when necessary (for example to go around obstacles or to
make smooth turns), as long as it sticks to the Corridor. If an ActiveShuttle happens to leave the given
Corridor however, it will stop and wait for an operator to move it back into the Corridor.
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landmarks. It detects and goes around obstacles in its Path
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