Objective The AGAVE project overall objective is the development of an advanced guidance system for Automatic Guided Vehicles, focusing on a next generation positioning system development, allowing indoor and outdoor goods transportation within the warehouse through a flexible material handling system. The AGAVE system is a free-range system allowing a high level of optimisation in the routes to be executed, being its performances superior to those currently available on the market. It will be an integrated system easily adaptable to production environment changes and able to improve the overall quality, reducing the total lead-time.The following outcomes are expected:1) A stand-alone plug-in positioning system, based on UltraWideBand technology, exploiting computational hardware commercialised by the company TimeDomain, with a time to market of about 15 months after project completion.2) A navigation system, installed onboard, based on the improvement of the existing systems.3) An integrated software for fleet management, route optimisation and integration with operating machines, installed on a fixed host.The AGAVE system main technical advantages are:- operate in a very wide warehouse (average indoor route: 150-200 m)- realise a very flexible system, easily adaptable to outdoor applications (expected average route: 4-5 Km)- be compatible with all AGV configurations, even platform carriers, which is currently impossible with laser based positioning systems- be compatible with all warehouse layouts, with narrow corridors or the occupation of the overhead volume now kept free to ensure line of sight conditions for laser systems- be easily manageable and configurable through an advanced user interface- well automate goods transportation logistic phase, ensuring a smooth functioning of the pick and drop phases, in order to reduce the total lead-time of the entire industrial process. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresocial sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomationengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsnatural sciencesphysical sciencesopticslaser physicssocial sciencessocial geographytransportnavigation systems Programme(s) FP6-SME - Horizontal research activities involving SMEs: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SME-1 - Co-operative Research (all areas of science and technology) Call for proposal FP6-2003-SME-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator LABOR S.R.L. Address Via della scrofa 117 Rome Italy See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all COSMOTEK SRL Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via s. giacinto 18-20 Fiorano modenese See on map DIRK SCHUMANN GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rheinstrasse 60 b Hoehr-grenzhausen See on map INSTITUTO AGILUS DE INOVAÇÃO EM TECNOLOGIA DE INFORMAÇÃO LDA Portugal EU contribution € 0,00 Address Av. fernão magalhães, 110 - 1º d Ovar See on map Links Website Opens in new window MESUREX S.L. Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Pje. pandereta, local 1 Fuengirola See on map Links Website Opens in new window NUOVAFIMA SPA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Piazza calderini, 5 Bologna See on map Links Website Opens in new window PRO-CERAM GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Töpferstrasse 2 Ransbach-baumbach See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Avenida de cervantes, 2 Malaga See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE - DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA ELETTRICA GESTIONALE E MECCANICA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via delle scienze 208 Udine See on map Links Website Opens in new window
