Powering AGVs and AMRs can be difficult and costly if not done correctly.
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.
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