Automated guide vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are seeing widespread growth and implementation, but the challenge of keeping them charged remains a critical inhibitor.
"It is costly to install the coil wires in the floor, and it makes the free-ranging AGV or AMR not so free as it needs to drive where the inductive coils are for a lot of the time to receive enough charge," America in Motion CEO Tommy Hessler told Control Design.
In 2016, the International Organization for Standardization updated its clean-room standard for zones with highly controlled contaminants that can affect processes and products, such as automotive manufacturing, food production, aerospace and pharmaceuticals.
