AMR is developed from AGV technology.
In traditional AGV deployment mode, machines are defined before providing services, and the scale of multi-machine collaboration is often limited by the scheduling system.
In the AMR scenario, the TWO-DIMENSIONAL code on the ground has disappeared, and the models have become more diversified, and the machines can also cooperate with each other. Each machine can realize the use of a variety of functions, such as pallet access, handling, cargo to person, cargo to manipulator, human-machine cooperation and so on.
AMR can also flexibly change the delivery to person, order to person and other different functions according to business needs.
Why did AGV become AMR? Behind the scenes, the market is changing.
First of all, in terms of market changes, there are more and more kinds of goods, more and more customization and fragmentation of orders, and more and more diversified and uncertain forms of logistics business.
As a result of these uncertainties, the functions, order structures and business processes preset at the beginning of production are likely to change with the business development of customers in the future.
This requires logistics equipment system with high flexibility, more and more flexible, can quickly adapt to a variety of different needs.
Secondly, the efficiency of distribution is becoming higher and higher.
The original wholesale model and distribution model are based on weekly units, but in the e-commerce model, distribution efficiency starts to be required by day, while the requirements of pre-warehouse of community e-commerce will even be calculated by hours and minutes.
This requires more and more intelligent logistics information system, equipment system operation efficiency is becoming higher and higher, and can not stop.
Finally, in addition, the market competition is increasingly fierce, although the labor is more and more expensive, but in the fierce competition situation, each logistics operator hopes to lower their operating costs.
This requires logistics equipment to have high flexibility, more and more flexible, can adapt to a variety of different needs, in addition to the formation of large-scale, and the degree of automation is becoming increasingly high, early investment and late operation requires the ultimate high cost performance.
Overall, market changes have put forward higher requirements for AGV systems
The robot is required to achieve rapid deployment and migration, super-large scale scheduling, efficient human-machine cooperation.
In order to respond to these three needs of the market, AMR robot came into being.
What is the biggest difference between AMR and AGV?
We can compare them in three aspects: real-time deployment, scheduling scale and human-machine collaboration.
In terms of deployment, AGV has high requirements for site deployment and is not easy to adjust at any time.
The AMR does not require stickers, the site is adaptable, can be deployed in a day, and can be flexibly changed and added or subtracted if the site changes.
Scheduling in scale, concentration of AGV mainly through control system to realize real-time scheduling, decreases as the number of AGV, the computational complexity of the scheduling system will index, and since the field is the need for real-time scheduling, the demands of communication network is very high, once can't communication with the central server, AGV can only stay in place and call the police, let a person to solve the problems.
While AMR can achieve distributed scheduling, theoretically there is no upper limit of scale.
In terms of human-machine collaboration, traditional AGVS should minimize the intersection between human and AGV, which requires AGVS to design security fences and electronic fences at interaction points. However, AMR can carry out human-machine interaction anytime and anywhere.
