11 April 2021
Production under Industry 4.0 conditions requires smooth communication between machines. This also applies to automated guided vehicles from different manufacturers that are used in the internal material flow. Uniform communication of these vehicles is significantly simplified by VDA 5050. The communication interface makes it possible to combine different vehicles under any control system using a uniform data language. During the first live test in Dortmund, vehicles from arculus, DS AUTOMOTION, SAFELOG, Siemens AG, SSI SCHÄFER and STILL drove together in a KION Group control system. "This was the first major practical test for the interface to show how the transmission of orders and status data via VDA 5050 works. The test scenario in Dortmund ran reliably over four days and the companies involved were able to try out different details for the vehicles. We are already thinking about a continuation of the AGV Mesh-Up," explains Andreas Scherb, responsible for the Automated Guided Vehicles department in the VDMA Materials Handling and Intralogistics Association.
VDA 5050 is available with the revision number 1.1. and represents the current interim status. In the future, a further version will also describe the secured compatibility of PLC-based Automated Guided Vehicles.
The so-called AGV Mesh-Up from the VDMA Materials Handling and Intralogistics Association celebrated its world premiere at the IFOY AWARD as part of the TEST CAMP Intralogistics in Dortmund. The name is based on a mesh WLAN in which different components interlock and are seen as a uniform WLAN. For the vehicles, this means in concrete terms: they drive with different types of navigation (for example, line-guided or contour-based), but communicate with the higher-level control system in a common data language.
Background
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 controller via plug-and-play, regardless of manufacturer and system.
Practical test passed: Interface for driverless transport systems
The manufacturer-independent networking of automated guided vehicles has taken a major step forward. Six companies tested the VDA 5050 interface together with their vehicles at the AGV Mesh-Up. The event was part of this year's TEST CAMP Intralogistics of the IFOY AWARD.
 Foto: IFOYThe AGV Mesh-Up celebrated its world premiere at the IFOY AWARD as part of the TEST CAMP Intralogistics in Dortmund. |
VDA 5050 is available with the revision number 1.1. and represents the current interim status. In the future, a further version will also describe the secured compatibility of PLC-based Automated Guided Vehicles.
The so-called AGV Mesh-Up from the VDMA Materials Handling and Intralogistics Association celebrated its world premiere at the IFOY AWARD as part of the TEST CAMP Intralogistics in Dortmund. The name is based on a mesh WLAN in which different components interlock and are seen as a uniform WLAN. For the vehicles, this means in concrete terms: they drive with different types of navigation (for example, line-guided or contour-based), but communicate with the higher-level control system in a common data language.
Background
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 controller via plug-and-play, regardless of manufacturer and system.
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