STEEL TECH

Autonomous logistics inside a stainless steel factory

Juan Almagro - Laboratory & Research Sec. Manager - ACERINOX

Jesús Murgoitio Larrauri - Project Director - TECNALIA

Juan Almagro -  Laboratory & Research Sec. Manager - ACERINOX

At a steel mill, thousands of tonnes of steel are moved daily from one place to another. This material comes in various shapes, depending on the products or semi-products being handled, and unit weights are measured in tonnes. Traditionally, heavy machinery is required for these movements and the physical properties of the product, as well as the working environment, are usually considered hostile to new technologies. In this project, navigation technologies adapted to the industrial environment have been developed to use on fully autonomous vehicles for the automatic, unattended movement of stainless-steel coils weighing up to 30 tonnes, sharing streets and roads with conventional traffic.

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