Powered by NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, MiR1200 sets a new benchmark for automated pallet handling forklifts

Enthusiasts.com reports (Text/Wu Zipeng) At present, new quality productivity has become a hot word in various industries. In the process of creating new quality productivity, production logistics automation and warehousing logistics are important ways and results, which can significantly reduce logistics costs and improve logistics efficiency.

In the past, the industry mainly relied on tools such as AGV and pallet trucks to improve the efficiency of material handling, but these tools have serious deficiencies in autonomy and adaptability. In actual deployment, these tools either rely on large-scale and complex scheduling systems or require human cooperation. The industry needs more intelligent and efficient solutions.

Against this background, Mobile Industrial Robots (hereinafter referred to as: MiR), a leader in the global mobile market, recently officially released the MiR1200 pallet truck, bringing a thinking logistics solution to the market and taking automation technology a step further.


MiR1200 pallet truck

MiR1200 based on Jetson AGX

The MiR1200 pallet truck is based on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin platform, which realizes the organic integration of AMR and pallet adaptive fork picking. He Xiaohu, head of MiR Autonomous Mobile Robots China and sales director, said that the Jetson AGX Orin platform ensures the intelligence level of MiR1200, enabling it to think like a human, with three significant features: simplicity, flexibility and automation. The

deployment of the MiR1200 pallet truck is very simple. The MiR team has ensured that all AMRs of the company maintain perfect compatibility and can define functions under one software, one language and one interface. "This unified compilation tool is very simple, both in terms of system and software. Even non-robot operators only need about 10 minutes to master it proficiently." He Xiaohu said.

The MiR1200 pallet truck has industry-leading flexible deployment capabilities, which makes up for the shortcomings of current AGV-type smart devices. According to feedback from industry insiders, the current AGV solutions generally have problems such as poor dynamic adaptability and insufficient flexible scheduling capabilities, resulting in each workshop needing to independently deploy a scheduling system and equipment. MiR1200 has perfectly overcome this problem. He Xiaohu pointed out, "Including MiR1200, the operation and scheduling of all MiR AMR equipment are very flexible. For example, if workshop A stops production, MiR's AMR can drive directly to workshop B, seamlessly connect and continue to operate, thereby minimizing the impact on the production line and greatly improving equipment and asset utilization."

Users familiar with MiR AMR equipment know that MiR's equipment has always been a benchmark for the development of industry intelligence, and its autonomous obstacle avoidance capabilities continue to lead the industry development. Thanks to the powerful capabilities of NVIDIA's Jetson AGX Orin platform, the intelligence level of MiR1200 has been further improved. This is a device with "thinking ability". He Xiaohu said, "MiR1200 has taken the intelligence level of MiR AMR equipment a step further. Its edge computing module can perform 40 trillion calculations per second and process 1.2 million images. After the user deploys it and trains for half a year, the operating capacity of MiR1200 is equivalent to that of a traditional factory team."

Of course, to achieve the above capabilities, a powerful computing platform alone is not enough. Zhu Yuchen, senior application of MiR autonomous mobile robots in China, mentioned in his introduction that in order to give full play to the thinking ability of NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin platform, MiR equipped MiR1200 with multiple cameras and lidars, which can obtain massive data from the environment in real time. By integrating information from various sources, MiR1200 can navigate safely and reliably in a changing environment.

Empowering China's traditional industrial enterprises to transform into intelligent ones

It is not difficult to see that the intelligence level of MiR1200 is significantly higher than various AMR and AGV equipment including MiR's previous AMR, and has become a powerful helper for the intelligent transformation of traditional industrial enterprises. In China, traditional industries are currently facing great pressure from intelligent transformation, which can be said to be urgent. According to the policies issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other ministries and commissions, by 2027, the high-end, intelligent, green and integrated development level of my country's traditional manufacturing industry needs to be significantly improved, and the penetration rate of digital R&D and design tools and the key process rate of industrial enterprises will exceed 90% and 70% respectively. Obviously, the improvement of the intelligent level of material handling plays an important role.

"The core application scenario of MiR1200 is warehousing and logistics, which can help enterprises replace the current long-distance transportation work that requires manual labor, perform production line feeding or unloading of goods on the production line, and operate the end of the finished product production line to the temporary storage area or pallet packaging area." He Xiaohu said, "Our goal is to simplify complex logistics tasks and enable robots to think like humans, so as to achieve the best effect of human-machine collaboration. Not only is the intelligence of a single device, but the MiR Fleet fleet management software can be seamlessly connected with logistics software such as EWMS, so that customers can dispatch MiR's AMR fleet using the EWMS intelligent logistics system."

According to the on-site scene demonstration, users can feel the obvious improvement in the level of intelligence with the help of MiR1200, including excellent visual recognition capabilities, adaptability to changing pallet postures, and precise operating efficiency. For example, in terms of adapting to changing pallet postures, Zhu Yuchen mentioned during the explanation that in a changing industrial environment, the posture of the pallet may not always be regular, especially in the Chinese market, where various standard pallets are deployed, which puts high demands on the automatic identification of forklifts. MiR1200 has the ability to autonomously identify and locate pallets while moving, and can intelligently adjust its posture to adapt to the angle of the pallet.

He Xiaohu said that users can usually get a return on investment from related equipment within one year after purchasing AMR equipment such as MiR1200.

Conclusion

As He Xiaohu said, domestic AGV equipment has made great progress and development in the past few years, but this technology, which was born in the 1950s and 1960s, is very inflexible and cannot meet the flexible scheduling in the flexible production process. MiR hopes to promote AMR technology and let China's manufacturing industry recognize and deploy truly intelligent mobile robot products. Under this concept, the release of MiR1200 has set a new benchmark for the development of the industry. Its intelligence and flexibility are unprecedented, allowing AMR equipment to think like humans and help related companies continue to break through the efficiency margin of new quality productivity.