Forklift AGV is to load various guidance technologies on the forklift, build a map algorithm, supplemented by obstacle avoidance safety technology, and realize the unmanned operation of the forklift. As the industry's requirements for automated handling are getting higher and higher, in the past two years, forklift-type AGVs that integrate stacking functions and automated guided handling have been favored by application companies. According to the statistics of the New Strategic Robot Industry Research Institute, China Mobile Robots (AGV) According to industry alliance data, in 2019, China's forklift AGV (including visual navigation) sales reached 2,700 units, an increase of 80% compared to 2018, and the market size reached 1.3 billion yuan, an increase of 44% compared to 2018.
It can be seen that the current forklift AGV industry has gradually entered a period of rapid development, which is inseparable from the promotion of many factors.
Forklift AGV is considered to be the inevitable direction of the future development of traditional forklifts. According to relevant data, the current conversion rate of forklift AGV is less than 0.3% compared with traditional forklifts. It is conceivable that there will be enough possibilities for the market application space of forklift AGV in the future.
Before 2014, there were only a few companies selling forklift AGV robots in my country. After 2014, forklift AGV companies sprang up, and many companies entered the market one after another. According to the statistics of China Mobile Robot (AGV) Industry Alliance and the New Strategic Robot Industry Research Institute, there are currently more than 50 domestic forklift AGV manufacturers, including traditional AGV manufacturers, traditional forklift manufacturers, logistics integrators and warehousing robot companies. Different attributes lead to different considerations for each company, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages in market competition.
For professional AGV companies, they focus on the development of AGVs. In addition to technical refinement, they also strive for "completeness" in the product line. As the most popular category of forklift AGVs, naturally they cannot be ignored. Traditional AGV companies have been working hard in the industry for a long time and have deep accumulation in technology, which is their main advantage in market competition.
The main business of traditional forklift companies in this field was to carry out bodywork for forklift AGV manufacturers. Based on the advantages of its own car body design and manufacturing, it seems that the software development will come naturally. Familiar with car body craftsmanship and traditional forklift companies with mature sales networks have certain advantages in industry competition.
It is not new for logistics integrators to extend their tentacles into the AGV field. Some large logistics integrators are currently preparing to transform into "total solution providers", that is, to provide enterprises with one-stop services from equipment to systems. Forklift AGV as a Among them, the key equipment is naturally indispensable. As the integrator closest to the application side, in the process of product development, it can undoubtedly have a deeper understanding of the characteristics of environmental applications and more in line with actual needs.
In addition to the above-mentioned traditional AGV companies, traditional forklift manufacturers and logistics integrators, in recent years, more and more warehouse robots have begun to develop forklift AGV products. This is mainly because after a period of fighting, giants in the e-commerce warehousing industry have emerged, and the market is close to saturation. Warehousing robot companies are also seeking new markets, but their product lines are too single. In order to enhance their competitiveness, develop More products are its inevitable choice.
Laser & vision, unmanned forklift navigation technology is gradually becoming mature
At present, forklift AGV products on the market can be divided into stacking type, counterweight type, reach type and other categories according to the handling method, and can be mainly divided into two categories according to the navigation method, laser navigation unmanned forklift and visual navigation unmanned forklift .
At present, the laser forklift AGV in the domestic market can be divided into vehicle imports, technology imports and domestic independent research and development products according to the source. The imported laser forklift AGVs are mainly from Europe and the United States, and use the laser navigation technology with reflectors. Due to its high price, limited after-sales service, and low market acceptance; the technology imported forklift AGV refers to domestic AGV manufacturers through Purchase the laser navigation technology with reflectors from foreign navigation technology giants and mount them on electric forklifts to form your own laser forklift AGV products. Compared with the import of complete vehicles, this method saves hardware costs and import costs, and reduces the import price of complete vehicles as a whole, thereby gaining part of the market. Most of the domestic self-developed products are self-developed software technology, and then the body is customized to traditional forklift manufacturers, and some hardware and software are self-produced, and most of these types of enterprises are traditional forklift companies that are transforming towards intelligence. .
The laser forklift AGV is still mainly based on reflective board navigation, because the technology is relatively more mature and there are relatively rich application cases in earlier applications. There are also some laser forklifts without reflectors, but there are relatively few. First, because the technical difficulty is greater than that of reflector navigation, and second, the large-scale application has not been fully realized, and the application side is stable and safe. There will be some concerns.
In addition to laser forklifts, visual navigation unmanned forklifts have gradually attracted the attention of the industry in recent years. Vision Navigation Unmanned forklifts are equipped with a visual AI navigation system and use industrial cameras as sensors to capture and analyze the visual features of the robot during motion to autonomously position the forklift, control motion and avoid obstacles, thereby realizing factories or warehouses. Automatic handling of goods.
In fact, visual navigation technology is one of the focuses of the mobile robot industry in recent years. Compared with laser navigation, the cost of visual navigation is lower. Laser unmanned forklifts that are often hundreds of thousands of dollars make many small and medium-sized enterprises prohibitive, and the cost The relatively low-cost visual navigation unmanned forklift will have certain advantages in the market competition. Although the visual navigation technology started late, after a period of development, the technology is also becoming mature, and the application cases are gradually increasing.
According to its product characteristics, the current scenarios for forklift AGV applications are high-level warehouses, out-of-storage receiving areas, and production line transfers. Therefore, it is currently mainly used in the manufacturing industry. In manufacturing, the forklift AGV can complete the docking in multiple production links. Different needs such as stations, shelves, operating points, etc., to achieve a variety of functions. However, due to the diversified development of manufacturing scenarios and the improvement of lean production requirements, forklift AGVs also face some challenges.
In fact, whether it is laser navigation or visual navigation unmanned forklifts, in recent years, due to the promotion of market demand and the entry of a large number of enterprises, the technology of forklift AGV has been continuously matured, and with the continuous progress of current artificial intelligence and other technologies , Unmanned forklifts have also begun to develop in a more intelligent direction.
The industry is trying to apply artificial intelligence technology to forklift AGVs to improve driving safety, work efficiency and reduce operating costs such as maintenance and repair costs, to achieve more comprehensive and accurate data collection and analysis applications, and then to achieve integration with other logistics equipment and warehousing equipment. The interconnection between them, from a single product to a systematic application, achieves overall optimization.
Intelligent forklifts mainly have four key technologies and application advantages: First, the perception technology of forklifts, such as vehicle-mounted UHF RFID reading and writing technology, can effectively identify and perceive with roadway labels, cargo space labels, and cargo labels, and realize the storage and exit system. Automatic confirmation. The second is the interaction technology with the information system scheduling instructions, the most typical of which are the application of on-board computers and handhelds, which greatly improves the logistics efficiency. The third is the application of various sensors of the forklift, such as speed, weight, collision, temperature, oil pressure, electricity and other sensing technologies, which makes the bus control data of the forklift more abundant. The fourth is to gather information such as the location, task, status, and efficiency of intelligent forklifts into the "industrial vehicle remote platform" for big data processing and output, so as to realize the remote operation, maintenance and rental operation of forklifts.
In general, whether it is the continuous maturity of navigation technology or the application of artificial intelligence technology, the ultimate fundamental purpose is to improve the efficiency of unmanned forklifts in the future, and to better replace manual labor and reduce costs to the greatest extent. Although the overall size of the unmanned forklift market is still small, as a segment of the AGV industry, it will replace the vast traditional forklift market in the future, with great prospects. And we also believe that the technological innovation of forklift AGV products will become more and more mature with the design requirements of localized ontology, the promotion and application of the market, and the improvement of the forklift industry chain. Expect.
In addition, it should be noted that the homogenous competition in the domestic unmanned forklift AGV market is obvious at present, which is not beneficial to production enterprises, end customers, and industry development. Homogeneous competition should be avoided. It is an inevitable law that the big waves will wash away the sand and the best will be eliminated. If Chinese unmanned forklift companies want to develop healthily, they must be market-oriented, take a long-term perspective, possess core technologies, and have differentiated product characteristics.
Linde: Serialized Products + Advantageous Core Technology
Linde Material Handling is a member of the KION Group. It was founded in Germany in 1904 and officially entered the Chinese market in 1993. With the development of the intelligent logistics market, Linde proposed the "intelligent" strategic transformation as early as a few years ago, trying to create a more efficient material handling solution.
Customized ontology + independent development
At present, in the field of AGV, Linde's business mainly includes two directions. One is to provide high-quality standardized/customized ontology for AGV manufacturers. This kind of cooperation can even be traced back to 20 years ago. At present, there are dozens of AGVs. The tuner has established a long-term and stable cooperative relationship with Linde. The use of Linde basic car body for automatic modification has become a recognized quality route in the industry. The second is to provide AGV robots and accompanying services directly to Linde end customers. Linde hopes to rely on its own advanced technical advantages to provide industry peers with advanced and stable basic car bodies, and even specific automated modifications to develop together with peers in the industry; at the same time, it also provides Linde's independent Advanced automation products and solutions.
Since 2015, Linde has successively launched a full range of Linde handling robot solutions such as L-MATIC, P-MATIC, T-MATIC and K-MATIC. At present, Linde has completed the development and launch of a full range of forklift AGV products, covering the P\T\L\K\R product series. It has three global R&D centers, four major manufacturing centers and a team of more than 300 R&D personnel. At present, there are more than 6,000 AGV vehicles in the world, and more than 1,000 AGV systems are installed and applied, providing intelligent logistics solutions, and has established a global sales and service network system.
At present, Linde's forklift AGV series products have been able to solve all aspects of material handling in warehouses and factories, from receiving and warehousing to transshipment and putting on shelves, line-end distribution to automated three-dimensional storage. The main industries facing are medicine, 3C manufacturing, medicine, daily chemical, automobile, tobacco, food and beverage, etc.
In the high-end wine storage warehouse of Sinotrans, a well-known comprehensive service logistics enterprise in China, Linde's handling robots are used in the operation processes of goods warehousing, transfer, inventory and delivery, which truly realizes warehousing automation. The project is based on the application of the Linde handling robot K-MATIC. K-MATIC is an advanced intelligent vehicle developed to further improve the production efficiency of warehouses and distribution centers. It can not only be used in a common environment that cooperates with manual operations, but also It can be used as a single machine or as a robot fleet, and it can easily realize the interactive docking of the operating environment (automatic doors, conveyor lines, etc.) and the WMS/SAP system.
In the future, Linde will develop in the direction of intelligence and light weight, and create more efficient and flexible material handling solutions for customers. While developing different forklift AGV products, cooperate with AGV manufacturers to provide the customized basic body they need to meet the needs of various customers in the overall automation solution.
Hangcha Intelligence: Promoting the technological innovation and application of fork-type AGV
Zhejiang Hangcha Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., affiliated to Hangcha Group, was officially established in 2018. Actually started to develop AGV related projects in 2012, and signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Kollmorgen (NDC) in 2016. Relying on the huge group resources, Hangcha Intelligence continuously promotes the technological innovation and application of fork-type AGV for various industries.
Free combination + project customization
Hangcha Intelligent AGV combines the advantages of its original forklift technology, craftsmanship and product quality, and independently designs the car body. It has various characteristics: multiple choices of chassis structure; various navigation methods are optional; diversified actuators, etc. Chassis structure, navigation method, actuator, the three freely combined plus project customization form Hangchashen series AGV. At present, Hangcha has successfully developed special models such as heavy-duty stacking AGVs of more than three tons and three-way AGVs in narrow lanes, filling the gap in the domestic market.
Hangcha Intelligent's privately developed "narrow aisle three-way AGV" is the first of its kind in China. The project equipment can complete three-way rotation in a 1.9-meter-wide aisle, and carry out automatic in-out operations of 9.5-meter-high goods, subverting the operation mode of traditional high-level shelves. . Cooperate with software and hardware such as ERP, WMS, automatic scheduling system, conveying line, WCS, etc., to realize accurate in-out and out-of-warehousing operations of goods. This improves work efficiency and accuracy, and ensures the safety and stability of production and warehousing operations. In addition, through independent research and development of the automatic management system (AMS), Hangcha Intelligent conducts close connection between the upper-level systems and lower-level execution systems, and customizes development according to different design requirements to meet various working conditions on site.
In terms of business development, Hangcha Smart has always focused on the automotive and parts, rubber, photovoltaic, pharmaceutical, warehousing and logistics, and ceramic lighting industries. At this stage, Hangcha Smart has already provided services for BMW Brilliance, Dongfeng Fengshen, SAIC GM, Zhongce, and Jinko. , Seraphim, Bikang, Cainiao and other enterprises have made practical application cases.
In the overall solution of AGV intelligent warehouse system built for Jiangsu Changzhou Seraphim photovoltaic system, Hangcha Intelligent realizes functions such as data docking, rapid order response, cargo tracking and whole-process visualization with the help of Internet of Things and artificial intelligence related technologies. It provides data support for customers to optimize logistics decisions and optimize supply chain operations. In the AGV intelligent warehouse management, the WMS system, AMS system and AGV combined operation mode are used, and a total of 6 narrow aisle high-lift three-way AGVs are used to cooperate with the on-site double-layer automatic conveying line. Cargo inspection, etc. Among them, the customized narrow roadway three-way high-lift AGV pioneered the hybrid navigation method that combines laser navigation and magnetic stripe navigation, breaking through the industry pain point that AGV cannot operate in a similar environment of narrow roadway. . The whole process of unmanned operation from warehousing to warehousing is realized. Let AGV completely replace 6 manual forklifts and supporting personnel on site to avoid errors and safety problems during manual handling.
The main theme of car companies, and Anhui Yufeng is one of the representative companies.
Self-developed software and hardware to create multiple series of products
In 2018, due to the judgment of future industry trends, Anhui Yufeng Warehousing established a subsidiary Anhui Yufeng Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and began to vigorously promote in the AGV market. In addition to its own technical accumulation in the forklift body, Yufeng also insists on independent research and development in terms of software systems.
After the initial investment and development, Yufeng now has a series of mobile handling robots such as laser trackless navigation, laser natural navigation, visual autonomous navigation, and QR code inertial navigation, including stacking, counterweight, pallet, and forward-moving robots. , three-way stacking and other forms of unmanned forklift products, its scope of application can extend from indoor to outdoor. On the basis of existing mobile robots, Yufeng is also developing composite robot products, which are expected to be officially launched to the market in 2020. In addition, its integrated navigation products are also under development.
Facing the manufacturing industry, deeply understanding customer needs
Yufeng's serialized unmanned forklifts can be applied to a wide range, but the current application is mainly focused on the manufacturing field. Yufeng, who is from a traditional forklift company, is very familiar with the handling needs of the manufacturing industry. On the basis of its own understanding of the needs of the industry, Yufeng has also created a series of excellent cases of intelligent handling.
For example, in the lithium battery industry, how to store positive and negative raw materials safely, efficiently and with high cleanliness has always been a headache for everyone. In the traditional production process, the stacker is used to make AS/RS, which has high efficiency, but it will generate metal dust and affect the quality of the battery. The use of forklifts has a low degree of automation, and workers will make mistakes or damage. Yufeng uses its narrow-aisle forklift AGV+WMS to solve the problem of metal dust and replace labor, maintaining the original storage capacity.
Yufeng designed the positive and negative warehouses as narrow-aisle warehouses with 1,000 cargo spaces. Each warehouse uses two narrow-aisle AGVs, combined with WMS software, to manage materials. The use of sub-mother trays to avoid contact pollution. Data traceability, dual-machine hot backup, uninterruptible power supply, to maintain the stability of warehouse data. Its overall solution realizes high-density storage of materials, visualization and digital management of material information, improves space efficiency and production flexibility, further reduces management costs and successfully solves the problem of material pollution.
In the ultra-thin float glass industry, the production process for substrates needs to be strictly controlled to be dust-free. Using AGV handling instead of manual operations can strictly control the interference factors in the production process. It can not only save costs, but also be beneficial to production. The whole process adopts non-standard design, flexible docking, and systematic compatible software according to the equipment layout and operating habits of the customer's site. It has been well received by customers.
Yufeng adheres to the concept of "Technology Leading, Customized Service", and will continue to adhere to product innovation in the future to provide customers with more customized models and software technical services.
Hefei Jingsong: Deeply cultivating integrated applications to create a complete product line
Founded in 2007, Jingsong is a leading intelligent logistics system integrator and logistics equipment manufacturer in China. With the continuous development of the trend of logistics automation, Jingsong also began to gradually extend to the field of intelligent equipment. Jingsong is committed to building a complete logistics product line, and AGV is an important part of it.
Product development is suitable for scenarios
As an integrator directly facing end customers, Jingsong will consider the applicability of scenarios more when developing AGV products. At present, there are two main application scenarios for Jingsong's AGV products, namely storage stack height and logistics handling. Therefore, in terms of products, Jingsong's AGVs are mainly divided into two categories, forklift-type AGVs and mobile visual navigation robots.
Jingsong currently has a variety of forklift AGV products such as counterweight type, full-forward type, and pallet type. Its counterweight type AGV is a product with the same function as an electric counterweight forklift. Afterwards, a counterweight is added, the whole vehicle is heavier and longer, and the requirements for the passage distance are relatively high. It is suitable for various types of pallets, and different types of materials can be transported by changing different attachments.
The full-forward stacking AGV in its giraffe series is a model of Jingsong's patented product technology. It has full freedom of 360-degree movement, enabling the vehicle to turn in narrow lanes and increasing the space density of shelves. ; The maximum lifting height is 7.5 meters.
Create the first case in the glass manufacturing industry
Based on its rich integration experience and complete product line, Jingsong has a number of outstanding cases in various industries. Recently, the first application case of Jingsong AGV in the glass manufacturing industry has also been successfully implemented.
In the AVIC Sanxin glass manufacturing project, the professional team of Jingsong independently designed a 3-ton car body according to the on-site environment. It adopts the domestic advanced laser navigation and positioning algorithm, and the navigation accuracy can reach ±5mm. The customer's manipulator grabs the glass and places it on the designated site After reaching a certain number of stations, the manipulator will transmit the full tray signal to the on-site personnel, and the on-site staff will check whether the glass is qualified. If qualified, use the call button to call the AGV to pick up the goods. Before the AGV comes to pick up the goods, it will judge whether there is a parent tray on the customer's hoist. If so, the AGV will generate a task to place it directly at the hoist position. If the mother tray is not in place, a task to be placed in the cache will be generated. The state of the entire cache bit is managed by the AGV scheduling system. The state of the cache bits can be manually intervened.
After the AGV gets the full frame of goods, it will generate a task to fill the empty frame at the station at the same time. At this time, the idle AGV will take the empty frame from the empty frame buffer position, put it at the position where the robot is fixed to grab, and tell the robot that the empty frame is in place, and glass can be placed. The empty frame on the scene is sent by the elevator, and after it is in place, the AGV is told through the PLC, and the AGV will put the empty frame in the designated buffer position.
The implementation of this project has greatly improved the handling efficiency, further saved labor costs, and also tested the project implementation ability of Jingsong when he entered the new industry.
Kunhou Intelligence: Autonomous Navigation Technology Chips Create Differentiated Forklift AGV
Compared with traditional forklift companies and other AGV companies, Suzhou Kunhou's intelligent forklift AGV products not only realize 100% independent development of the core technology of software and hardware, but also the independent navigation chip is compatible with different products, which has become an important bargaining chip for its differentiated competition. .
Soft power blessing of navigation chip + group control system
Suzhou Kunhou Intelligent is a high-tech enterprise with robot positioning and navigation chips, group control technology, and unmanned automation of logistics and warehousing as its core. Its main business focuses on KH-NaviKit® positioning and navigation chips, multi-robot group control software and industrial robots, service robots and medical robots based on the above two software.
Kunhou Intelligent's core technology lies in its strong chip R&D team. The KH-NaviKit® positioning and navigation chip it developed is used in mobile robots in different industries such as industrial, service, and medical fields. Combined with parallel computing technology and trackless, The high-performance, low-power, small-size, embedded robot controller with no anti-navigation theory applies international cutting-edge radar technology, and the computing core is dozens of times higher than the computing efficiency of similar products at home and abroad, and its power consumption The volume is only about one-tenth of similar products.
Kunhou Intelligent has also built a strong software R&D team, the multi-robot group control system KH-WCS (supporting 200 units), the characteristics of its self-developed system are: 1. Various software interfaces on the customer site are seamlessly connected; 2. The customer site Real-time grasp of information, buffer batch work orders issued by the system, realize coordinated control of tasks and support online traffic control, and support multi-robot scheduling and overall efficiency optimization in multi-task fields; 3. Perfectly combined with 5G communication technology, realize Basically zero-latency communication between software and multi-robots.
With the advantages of autonomous navigation chip and autonomous group control system, Kunhou series robot products are diversified to meet various needs of various industries. At present, Kunhou robot adopts imported car body products such as Linde, Jungheinrich, Crown, NICHIYU, etc. Domestic customized models include Mima, Heli, Hangcha, etc. In addition, Kunhou can also develop customized products according to the special needs of customers to meet the application of special scenarios.
Build an intelligent logistics system for multi-industry development
The positioning and navigation chip + group control system + walking robot independently developed by Kunhou Intelligent constitute the core of its intelligent logistics system. On this basis, its intelligent logistics solutions have been applied in many industries.
At the beginning of 2019, Kunhou Intelligent used its own navigation chip to cooperate with the advantages of the group control system in a key power grid project to solve the unmanned forklift AGV in the industry. It has been running in the project for over 9 months now.
In the future, Kunhou Intelligence will continue to base itself on the needs of various industries, continue to develop and innovate, and create more efficient intelligent logistics solutions for customers.
Easy Airdel: The new intelligent system can be upgraded to AMR forklift
As a new entrant in the industry, Shenzhen Eideer Smart Technology Co., Ltd. is different from traditional automation solution providers. It takes customer safety production and smart production as the perspective, computer data centers as the basis, and automated production equipment such as AGV forklifts as the execution unit. , A new set of smart storage AGV forklift system has been created, and the world's first launch and implementation of base station navigation AGV forklifts.
Software + Hardware New one-stop warehousing solution
Its "Smart Warehouse AGV Forklift System" software is mainly composed of WMCS (Warehouse Management Control System), WMCS client, AGV forklift vehicle control system, etc. The hardware and facilities mainly include centralized monitoring and dispatching management center, smart warehouse AGV forklift center server, video Monitoring center server, client, AGV forklift (car), indoor positioning base station, surveillance cameras, etc.
AGV forklifts mainly use base station navigation and positioning or laser navigation and positioning. Each AGV forklift is equipped with a depth camera and self-developed pallet visual recognition and visual safety obstacle avoidance functions. The goods and pallets do not need to be strictly limited. At the same time, the AGV forklift automatically achieves safe obstacle avoidance through visual obstacle avoidance and laser obstacle avoidance systems. The intelligent level of vehicle operation, safety and reliability are greatly improved.
While its WMCS manages warehousing and controls various execution units including AGV forklifts, it can perform a large amount of data analysis and mining, providing strong data support and value-added services for customers in safe production, standardized production, and smart production. Different from the traditional AGV solution, when the AGV forklift system uses the positioning base station for navigation, the base station is simple to lay and easy to install. The traditional way is to drive according to the preset route, and the AGV forklift travel route is very flexible; the system has loose requirements for ground flatness; the speed of the AGV forklift can be adjusted at any time, and the upper limit of the speed can fully meet the upper limit of the factory requirements; there is no need to rebuild the map when the AGV fails , vehicle navigation and positioning is not affected by moving objects; customers can also adjust the warehouse layout at any time; can easily upgrade AGV forklift to AMR (autonomous mobile robot) forklift.
Deep cultivation of the industry, appreciation of steel projects
At present, Eideer is mainly for steel, petrochemical, electric power, finance and other industries, and its one-stop warehousing solution has also entered the warehouse of a large domestic steel group.
The iron and steel group warehouse covers an area of nearly 6,000 square meters. The floor of the warehouse is very flat, and there are no shelves. It mainly stores chemical raw materials produced by automatic production lines. Each bag of raw materials is 50KG. 6 layers, 5 packages of goods per layer, the total weight of the goods is 1.5T, and the pallets are nearly 1.6T. The goods on the production line are well coded. The AGV forklifts store the goods, the customers pick up the goods, and the AGV forklifts take out the warehouse. The other work is directly planned by the WMCS system uniformly and autonomously, and the placement rules can be adjusted at any time according to actual needs.
Easy Aide has established a management and dispatch center and a central computer room in the warehouse, set up a video wall in the management and dispatch center, installed video surveillance in the warehouse, and deployed a positioning base station, goods in and out, warehouse, storage pallets, empty pallets into the automatic production line pallet warehouse , All are completed by 3 forward-moving 1.6-ton AGV forklifts. The video and WMCS system client graphical interface are displayed on the large screen. The center can monitor the warehouse conditions and the running status of the AGV forklifts in real time. The system automatically connects to the production line and loading system. Unified management.
Anhui Yufeng: multi-series products + deep customization
"Intelligent transformation" is becoming the main theme of most traditional forklift companies, and Anhui Yufeng is one of the representative companies.
Self-developed software and hardware to create multiple series of products
In 2018, due to the judgment of future industry trends, Anhui Yufeng Warehousing established a subsidiary Anhui Yufeng Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and began to vigorously promote in the AGV market. In addition to its own technical accumulation in the forklift body, Yufeng also insists on independent research and development in terms of software systems.
After the initial investment and development, Yufeng now has a series of mobile handling robots such as laser trackless navigation, laser natural navigation, visual autonomous navigation, and QR code inertial navigation, including stacking, counterweight, pallet, and forward-moving robots. , three-way stacking and other forms of unmanned forklift products, its scope of application can extend from indoor to outdoor. On the basis of existing mobile robots, Yufeng is also developing composite robot products, which are expected to be officially launched to the market in 2020. In addition, its integrated navigation products are also under development.
Yufeng's serialized unmanned forklifts can be applied to a wide range, but the current application is mainly focused on the manufacturing field. Yufeng, who is from a traditional forklift company, is very familiar with the handling needs of the manufacturing industry. On the basis of its own understanding of the needs of the industry, Yufeng has also created a series of excellent cases of intelligent handling.
For example, in the lithium battery industry, how to store positive and negative raw materials safely, efficiently and with high cleanliness has always been a headache for everyone. In the traditional production process, the stacker is used to make AS/RS, which has high efficiency, but it will generate metal dust and affect the quality of the battery. The use of forklifts has a low degree of automation, and workers will make mistakes or damage. Yufeng uses its narrow-aisle forklift AGV+WMS to solve the problem of metal dust and replace labor, maintaining the original storage capacity.
Yufeng designed the positive and negative warehouses as narrow-aisle warehouses with 1,000 cargo spaces. Each warehouse uses two narrow-aisle AGVs, combined with WMS software, to manage materials. The use of sub-mother trays to avoid contact pollution. Data traceability, dual-machine hot backup, uninterruptible power supply, to maintain the stability of warehouse data. Its overall solution realizes high-density storage of materials, visualization and digital management of material information, improves space efficiency and production flexibility, further reduces management costs and successfully solves the problem of material pollution.
In the ultra-thin float glass industry, the production process for substrates needs to be strictly controlled to be dust-free. Using AGV handling instead of manual operations can strictly control the interference factors in the production process. It can not only save costs, but also be beneficial to production. The whole process adopts non-standard design, flexible docking, and systematic compatible software according to the equipment layout and operating habits of the customer's site. It has been well received by customers.
Yufeng adheres to the concept of "Technology Leading, Customized Service", and will continue to adhere to product innovation in the future to provide customers with more customized models and software technical services.
Hefei Jingsong: Deeply cultivating integrated applications to create a complete product line
Founded in 2007, Jingsong is a leading intelligent logistics system integrator and logistics equipment manufacturer in China. With the continuous development of the trend of logistics automation, Jingsong also began to gradually extend to the field of intelligent equipment. Jingsong is committed to building a complete logistics product line, and AGV is an important part of it.
As an integrator directly facing end customers, Jingsong will consider the applicability of scenarios more when developing AGV products. At present, there are two main application scenarios for Jingsong's AGV products, namely storage stack height and logistics handling. Therefore, in terms of products, Jingsong's AGVs are mainly divided into two categories, forklift-type AGVs and mobile visual navigation robots.
Jingsong currently has a variety of forklift AGV products such as counterweight type, full-forward type, and pallet type. Its counterweight type AGV is a product with the same function as an electric counterweight forklift. Afterwards, a counterweight is added, the whole vehicle is heavier and longer, and the requirements for the passage distance are relatively high. It is suitable for various types of pallets, and different types of materials can be transported by changing different attachments.
The full-forward stacking AGV in its giraffe series is a model of Jingsong's patented product technology. It has full freedom of 360-degree movement, enabling the vehicle to turn in narrow lanes and increasing the space density of shelves. ; The maximum lifting height is 7.5 meters.
Based on its rich integration experience and complete product line, Jingsong has a number of outstanding cases in various industries. Recently, the first application case of Jingsong AGV in the glass manufacturing industry has also been successfully implemented.
In the AVIC Sanxin glass manufacturing project, the professional team of Jingsong independently designed a 3-ton car body according to the on-site environment. It adopts the domestic advanced laser navigation and positioning algorithm, and the navigation accuracy can reach ±5mm. The customer's manipulator grabs the glass and places it on the designated site After reaching a certain number of stations, the manipulator will transmit the full tray signal to the on-site personnel, and the on-site staff will check whether the glass is qualified. If qualified, use the call button to call the AGV to pick up the goods. Before the AGV comes to pick up the goods, it will judge whether there is a parent tray on the customer's hoist. If so, the AGV will generate a task to place it directly at the hoist position. If the mother tray is not in place, a task to be placed in the cache will be generated. The state of the entire cache bit is managed by the AGV scheduling system. The state of the cache bits can be manually intervened.
After the AGV gets the full frame of goods, it will generate a task to fill the empty frame at the station at the same time. At this time, the idle AGV will take the empty frame from the empty frame buffer position, put it at the position where the robot is fixed to grab, and tell the robot that the empty frame is in place, and glass can be placed. The empty frame on the scene is sent by the elevator, and after it is in place, the AGV is told through the PLC, and the AGV will put the empty frame in the designated buffer position.
The implementation of this project has greatly improved the handling efficiency, further saved labor costs, and also tested the project implementation ability of Jingsong when he entered the new industry.
Compared with traditional forklift companies and other AGV companies, Suzhou Kunhou's intelligent forklift AGV products not only realize 100% independent development of the core technology of software and hardware, but also the independent navigation chip is compatible with different products, which has become an important bargaining chip for its differentiated competition. .
Soft power blessing of navigation chip + group control system
Suzhou Kunhou Intelligent is a high-tech enterprise with robot positioning and navigation chips, group control technology, and unmanned automation of logistics and warehousing as its core. Its main business focuses on KH-NaviKit® positioning and navigation chips, multi-robot group control software and industrial robots, service robots and medical robots based on the above two software.
Kunhou Intelligent's core technology lies in its strong chip R&D team. The KH-NaviKit® positioning and navigation chip it developed is used in mobile robots in different industries such as industrial, service, and medical fields. Combined with parallel computing technology and trackless, The high-performance, low-power, small-size, embedded robot controller with no anti-navigation theory applies international cutting-edge radar technology, and the computing core is dozens of times higher than the computing efficiency of similar products at home and abroad, and its power consumption The volume is only about one-tenth of similar products.
Kunhou Intelligent has also built a strong software R&D team, the multi-robot group control system KH-WCS (supporting 200 units), the characteristics of its self-developed system are: 1. Various software interfaces on the customer site are seamlessly connected; 2. The customer site Real-time grasp of information, buffer batch work orders issued by the system, realize coordinated control of tasks and support online traffic control, and support multi-robot scheduling and overall efficiency optimization in multi-task fields; 3. Perfectly combined with 5G communication technology, realize Basically zero-latency communication between software and multi-robots.
With the advantages of autonomous navigation chip and autonomous group control system, Kunhou series robot products are diversified to meet various needs of various industries. At present, Kunhou robot adopts imported car body products such as Linde, Jungheinrich, Crown, NICHIYU, etc. Domestic customized models include Mima, Heli, Hangcha, etc. In addition, Kunhou can also develop customized products according to the special needs of customers to meet the application of special scenarios.
The positioning and navigation chip + group control system + walking robot independently developed by Kunhou Intelligent constitute the core of its intelligent logistics system. On this basis, its intelligent logistics solutions have been applied in many industries.
At the beginning of 2019, Kunhou Intelligent used its own navigation chip to cooperate with the advantages of the group control system in a key power grid project to solve the unmanned forklift AGV in the industry. It has been running in the project for over 9 months now.
In the future, Kunhou Intelligence will continue to base itself on the needs of various industries, continue to develop and innovate, and create more efficient intelligent logistics solutions for customers.
Easy Airdel: The new intelligent system can be upgraded to AMR forklift
As a new entrant in the industry, Shenzhen Eideer Smart Technology Co., Ltd. is different from traditional automation solution providers. It takes customer safety production and smart production as the perspective, computer data centers as the basis, and automated production equipment such as AGV forklifts as the execution unit. , A new set of smart storage AGV forklift system has been created, and the world's first launch and implementation of base station navigation AGV forklifts.
Software + Hardware New one-stop warehousing solution
Its "Smart Warehouse AGV Forklift System" software is mainly composed of WMCS (Warehouse Management Control System), WMCS client, AGV forklift vehicle control system, etc. The hardware and facilities mainly include centralized monitoring and dispatching management center, smart warehouse AGV forklift center server, video Monitoring center server, client, AGV forklift (car), indoor positioning base station, surveillance cameras, etc.
AGV forklifts mainly use base station navigation and positioning or laser navigation and positioning. Each AGV forklift is equipped with a depth camera and self-developed pallet visual recognition and visual safety obstacle avoidance functions. The goods and pallets do not need to be strictly limited. At the same time, the AGV forklift automatically achieves safe obstacle avoidance through visual obstacle avoidance and laser obstacle avoidance systems. The intelligent level of vehicle operation, safety and reliability are greatly improved.
While its WMCS manages warehousing and controls various execution units including AGV forklifts, it can perform a large amount of data analysis and mining, providing strong data support and value-added services for customers in safe production, standardized production, and smart production. Different from the traditional AGV solution, when the AGV forklift system uses the positioning base station for navigation, the base station is simple to lay and easy to install. The traditional way is to drive according to the preset route, and the AGV forklift travel route is very flexible; the system has loose requirements for ground flatness; the speed of the AGV forklift can be adjusted at any time, and the upper limit of the speed can fully meet the upper limit of the factory requirements; there is no need to rebuild the map when the AGV fails , vehicle navigation and positioning is not affected by moving objects; customers can also adjust the warehouse layout at any time; can easily upgrade AGV forklift to AMR (autonomous mobile robot) forklift.
At present, Eideer is mainly for steel, petrochemical, electric power, finance and other industries, and its one-stop warehousing solution has also entered the warehouse of a large domestic steel group.
The iron and steel group warehouse covers an area of nearly 6,000 square meters. The floor of the warehouse is very flat, and there are no shelves. It mainly stores chemical raw materials produced by automatic production lines. Each bag of raw materials is 50KG. 6 layers, 5 packages of goods per layer, the total weight of the goods is 1.5T, and the pallets are nearly 1.6T. The goods on the production line are well coded. The AGV forklifts store the goods, the customers pick up the goods, and the AGV forklifts take out the warehouse. The other work is directly planned by the WMCS system uniformly and autonomously, and the placement rules can be adjusted at any time according to actual needs.
Easy Aide has established a management and dispatch center and a central computer room in the warehouse, set up a video wall in the management and dispatch center, installed video surveillance in the warehouse, and deployed a positioning base station, goods in and out, warehouse, storage pallets, empty pallets into the automatic production line pallet warehouse , All are completed by 3 forward-moving 1.6-ton AGV forklifts. The video and WMCS system client graphical interface are displayed on the large screen. The center can monitor the warehouse conditions and the running status of the AGV forklifts in real time. The system automatically connects to the production line and loading system. Unified management.
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