AWS IoT RoboRunner makes it easy to build applications that help robots work together seamlessly. Today, companies manage robots independently in silos, making it difficult to orchestrate and visualize robots from a single system view. Robots from different vendors are difficult to integrate into central management systems. As a result, developers find it challenging to build applications that efficiently manage a fleet of robots.
AWS IoT RoboRunner provides a central data repository for storing and using data from different robot management systems and enterprise management systems. Once robots are connected, developers can use sample applications and software development libraries to build management applications on top of the centralized data repository. You can use AWS IoT RoboRunner to build complex management applications that require robot interoperability, such as task orchestration, and view information in a single, unified display.
Centralized Data Repository
The AWS IoT RoboRunner centralized data repository includes three registries storing different types of data, each available through a private AWS IoT RoboRunner software development kit (SDK):
Vehicle/Fleet Registry
Vehicle/Fleet Registry allows you to model vehicles and fleets in a facility. The registry stores metadata on vehicles and fleets, such as vehicle ID, fleet ID, and vehicle and fleet properties. This registry includes APIs to create and manage fleets, register vehicles to a fleet along with vehicle properties, and update vehicle properties.
Destination Registry
Destination Registry lets you model destinations in a facility. The registry includes APIs to create a simplified representation of the facility to support cross-fleet task allocation and planning, including coordinates for work cells, and waypoints to model entries and exits from shared paths and spaces.
Task Registry
Task Registry lets you model and track tasks performed by vehicles in a facility, such as material movement and maintenance activities. This registry helps you capture the overall demand across vehicle fleets, including tasks assigned to fleets as well as specific vehicles. The registry supports modeling tasks with properties needed to select the appropriate vehicle or fleet to perform the task, such as customer-defined properties like task type.
Task Manager Library
The Task Manager Library pulls vehicle, destination, and task data from the centralized data repository’s registries, and then assigns tasks and provides guidance for route crossings, using FIFO (first-in, first-out) as a sample prioritization algorithm. You can run this sample implementation as an AWS Lambda function and customize it to specific business needs.
Fleet Gateway Library
The Fleet Gateway Library communicates with the Task Manager and dispatches tasks to the proper robot vendor fleet management systems. The Fleet Gateway Library also updates the registries with the latest vehicle, destination, and task status. You can run this sample implementation at your facilities, modifying it to suit your needs. The sample implementation includes integrations with fleet management systems from select robot vendors.
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