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Just as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are advancing progress toward self-driving cars, spatial intelligence can also support manually driven vehicles in factories and warehouses. Today at MODEX, Slamcore Ltd. launched Slamcore Aware, which can improve the accuracy, robustness and scalability of 3D localization data for internal logistics vehicle tracking.
“Prospects tell us they are looking for a fast-to-deploy, scalable way to provide much-needed location data to optimize logistics within warehouses and factories for speed and safety,” said Owen Nicholson, CEO of Slamcore. “Slamcore Aware represents a significant leap forward in logistics internal management, bringing visual spatial awareness to virtually any vehicle in a way that is scalable and can cope with the highly dynamic and complex environments inside today’s factories and warehouses.”
According to Slamcore, robots and autonomous machines must efficiently determine their location and map and understand their surroundings in real time. The London-based company said its hardware and software can help developers and manufacturers with simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).
Slamcore claimed its spatial intelligence software is accurate, robust and computationally efficient. It works “out of the box” with standard sensors and can be adapted to a variety of custom sensors or compute, shortening time to market, the company said.
Slamcore Aware brings AMR accuracy to your vehicles.
Slamcore Aware collects and processes visual data to provide rich, real-time information about the precise location and orientation of manually driven vehicles, Slamcore said. Unlike existing systems, the new product can easily scale in large, complex and constantly changing industrial settings, the company claimed.
Slamcore Aware combines the Slamcore software development kit (SDK) with industrial-grade hardware to provide an integrated approach for rapid installation on internal logistics vehicles and integration with new and existing real-time location systems (RTLS).
Slamcore said it has integrated AI to recognize and classify people and other vehicles. He noted that RTLS applications can use this enhanced data to significantly improve operational efficiency and safety.
The company said that this new product applies SLAM technology developed for autonomous mobile robots (AMR) to manual vehicles, allowing the company to estimate the location and direction of important assets with centimeter-level precision.
Equipped with stereo cameras and advanced algorithms, the Slamcore Aware module can automatically calculate the location of an equipped vehicle and then create a map of the facility as the vehicle moves. Slamcore said it can see changes in layout and positioning of vehicles, goods and people, even in highly dynamic environments.
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Provides scalability with an ‘inside out’ approach
Existing navigation systems require receiver antennas to be installed throughout the facility to provide “line-of-sight” connectivity, Slamcore said. However, large or complex sites require hundreds of antennas to track even a small number of vehicles, making facilities more expensive as they grow in size.
Even with this expensive infrastructure, coverage is often unreliable, making RTLS and warehouse robots less effective, Slamcore said. The company said Slamcore Aware solves these industry pain points.
The system takes an “inside-out” approach that scales with the number of vehicles deployed, regardless of the area to be covered or the complexity of the internal layout. As new vehicles are added to the fleet, additional modules can be simply fitted to each vehicle, allowing all vehicles to automatically and continuously determine their position regardless of where they are across the overall site, Slamcore announced.
Visual spatial intelligence data is processed at the edge onboard the vehicle, the company explained. Location and orientation data is shared through a lightweight and flexible application programming interface (API) for use in virtually any route planning, analysis, and optimization platform without sacrificing performance.
Slamcore provides Slamcore Aware to facility operators, fleet management and internal logistics professionals, system integrators, and other RTLS professionals. The company is exhibiting for the first time this week at MODEX in Atlanta, booth A13918. It will also be showcased at LogiMAT in Stuttgart, Germany.