Mobile Automation
Industrie
Automate mobility with reliability and flexibility
Robust and agile software solutions for smart mobile equipment.
Context and challenges of mobile automation
Mobile automation plays a key role in many rapidly changing industrial sectors. It imposes specific constraints related to mobility, system miniaturisation and connectivity.
Major challenges in the sector
- Mobility and flexibility: adaptation to varied and constrained environments, often with systems without an operating system and limited resources.
- Supply chain uncertainties: the need to be able to quickly reconfigure a solution in the event of obsolescence or component shortages.
- Reliable and secure communication: between mobile devices, to supervision systems or the cloud.
- Robustness and reliability: operation in harsh environments, functional safety requirements (IEC 61508).
- Rapid development: short innovation cycles and increasing pressure on time-to-market.
- Energy optimisation: fine-tuned management of consumption and performance in embedded systems.
The development of autonomous vehicles, logistics robots and connected mobile machines requires flexible, compact, real-time software solutions.
straton's strengths for mobile automation
straton offers a lightweight, modular embedded software solution that is perfectly suited to the constraints of the mobile sector.
Compatibility with industry protocols
- Native support for CANopen, J1939, Modbus, OPC UA, EtherCAT, and wireless protocols.
- Compliance with functional safety requirements (IEC 61508).
Integration flexibility
- Works with or without an operating system (embedded Linux, bare metal).
- Easy integration on resource-constrained platforms.
- Possibility of integrating specific navigation or embedded processing functions.
- Seamless coupling with other applications on the machine.
- Rapid creation of runtimes for any new hardware, without application rework.
Real-time performance
- Precise control of mechanical actions.
- Optimised response times for sensor-actuator read/write operations.
- Energy consumption control.
Reliability and safety
- Compliance with safety standards (IEC 61508).
- Integrated diagnostics, monitoring and alarm handling.
- Ability to manage degraded states or emergency scenarios.
Rapid and accessible development
- Intuitive development tools based on the IEC 61131-3 standard.
- Simulation and testing prior to field validation.
- Access to a large pool of developers thanks to the use of standardised languages.
- Integration possible in 2 days on a new electronic board.
Use cases for straton in mobile automation
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Industrial autonomous vehicles: Navigation control, obstacle avoidance, interaction with supervision systems.
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Mobile robots (AGV/AMR): Movement control and logistics management in warehouses or factories.
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Mobile construction equipment: Automation of critical functions on excavators, cranes or specialised vehicles.
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Connected agricultural machinery: Guidance control, dosing, synchronisation of mobile agricultural equipment.
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Mobile logistics and handling: Coordination of automated forklifts, conveyors and sorting systems.
