Spectacle in Dortmund (!)
AGV Mesh-Up celebrates its premiere at the IFOY Test Camp
It is the first live test of the new VDA 5050 interface: the so-called AGV Mesh-Up of the VDMA Materials Handling and Intralogistics Association celebrates its world premiere at the IFOY AWARD as part of the Test Camp Intralogistics.
On March 25 and 26, various Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) will be on display at an action area in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle, where they will drive under a common guidance system and communicate in a data language. The guests at Test Camp Intralogistics are high-ranking B2B trade visitors from the logistics sector.
The interface project was implemented by a team of AGV users and AGV manufacturers under the coordination of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) and the VDMA Materials Handling and Intralogistics Association. The aim is to enable automated transport vehicles, such as tugger trains, AGVs or mobile robots, to interact with each other via the master control system using plug-and-play, regardless of the manufacturer or system.
The event name AGV Mesh-Up is based on a mesh WLAN, in which different components interlock and are seen as a uniform WLAN. The vehicles drive with different types of navigation (e.g. line-guided or contour-based), but communicate with the higher-level control system in a common data language.
The companies represented at the event are arculus, DS Automotion, the KION Group with its Still brand, Safelog, SEW-Eurodrive, Siemens AG and SSI Schäfer. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft institutes IPA (Institute for Production Engineering and Automation) and IML (Institute for Material Flow and Logistics) are also taking part, each with an AGV.
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