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Mobile Robots in Production: Mesh-Up 2025
At automatica 2025, various mobile robots connected to one master control system via VDA 5050 will show the automation potential in production and logistics.
Automating production supply is becoming a focus for more and more companies. However, integrating mobile robots for transport tasks into existing infrastructure is no easy task – especially when different devices with different load carriers are to be used on the same routes. The associated IT integration is highly complex.
One approach to simplifying integration is offered by the open communication interface VDA 5050. The specifications defined in VDA 5050 allow mobile robots from different manufacturers to be integrated into one master control system. This is precisely what a total of nine companies are demonstrating in the Mobile Robots in Production: Mesh-Up 2025 showcase. MHP Management- und IT-Beratung GmbH is providing the master control system. Bosch Rexroth AG, dpm Daum + Partner Maschinenbau GmbH, ek robotics GmbH, Fraunhofer IML, KUKA AG, Omron Electronics GmbH and SAFELOG GmbH are providing the mixed fleet of mobile robots. For the first time, an independent system service provider is also on board for the automatica Mesh-Up, introducing trade fair visitors to project handling with different partners for an automation project. ProLog Automation GmbH & Co. KG is actively involved in the project preparation and implementation for the Mesh-Up and supports the participating companies with its expertise.
The showcase
At booth 330 in hall B4, visitors will see a stylised representation of a production line with various workstations that are supplied by different mobile robots. The main aim is to demonstrate the possible automated process chain. The trade fair audience will see how full and empty carriers are transported and transferred by different devices along a production process. Both under-running and fork lift trucks are used for pallet transport, as are mobile robots that transport small load carriers.
Software
The fact that the flexibility in the choice of supplier when using VDA 5050 applies not only to the robots themselves but also to the software is not demonstrated live at automatica by the Mesh-Up. However, users can already choose from a variety of different master control software for their individual requirements. In addition to the live demonstration with the MHP control system, FLEXUS AG is represented in the Mesh-Up community area, another VDMA member company that can implement fleet control with VDA 5050.
Teilnehmer des Mesh-Up 2025
Beim Showcase „Mobile Robots in Production: Mesh-Up” dreht sich alles um die Automatisierung von Produktionslogistik mit mobilen Robotern. Das Team des Forschungsprojekts M2X zeigt dabei einen ersten Zwischenstand seiner Schnittstellenentwicklung.
Unterschiedliche mobile Roboter, über VDA 5050 mit einer Leitsteuerung verbunden, zeigen welche Automatisierungspotenziale in Produktion und Logistik stecken. Ihre Chance, auf der automatica 2025 beim Mesh-Up dabei zu sein!
Ende März in einer Messehalle in Dortmund: sechs fahrerlose Transportfahrzeuge unterschiedlicher Hersteller setzen sich auf einer Testfläche in Bewegung. Der Clou dabei: sie fahren gemeinsam in einem Leitsystem und haben damit den ersten Live-Test der VDA 5050 erbracht.
Veranstaltungen
Hier finden Sie eine ausführliche Beschreibung der Kommunikationsschnittstelle VDA 5050 mit einem detaillierten Beispiel einer Kommunikation zwischen Leitsteuerung und mobilem Roboter.
Wer über ein Automationsprojekt mit mobilen Robotern nachdenkt, beschäftigt sich ggf. auch mit der Kommunikationsschnittstelle VDA 5050. Hier werden alle relevanten Fragen für Anwender und Betreiber beantwortet.
Als Kommunikationsschnittstelle ermöglicht die VDA 5050 die Integration mobiler Roboter unterschiedlicher Hersteller unter einem Leitsystem in einer heterogenen Flotte.
