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| LG CNS employees demonstrate how to monitor and control various types of robots at distribution centers through its robot management platform, Thursday. Courtesy of LG CNS |
By Baek Byung-yeul
LG CNS has developed a robotics management platform that controls and manages various types of robots at logistics distribution centers, the company said Thursday.
The company explained that the platform was developed to alleviate the pain points of customers who find it difficult to manage and operate different types of robots in a logistics distribution center with one control system.
"Through the robot management platform, customers can monitor and control robots on one platform. The robotics platform can link the control systems of multiple robots, such as automated guided vehicles that move goods along a set route, autonomous mobile robots that explore alternative routes if there are obstacles, warehouse robots that can store, load and move goods, and sorting robots," the company said.
The robot management platform collects and analyzes data from all robots in real time and guides them to perform optimally. This way, customers don't have to give orders to each robot, the company explained.
LG CNS secured universality by designing its robot platform based on the Open Robotics Middleware Framework, an open-source software system for robot control that is widely used around the world. The company also plans to gradually increase the number of robots that can be connected to each other.
To validate its platform technology, LG CNS has partnered with Gmarket to conduct validation test processes at the e-commerce company's logistics distribution center in Gyeonggi Province.
The two companies will be testing the technology to integrate robots that move boxes of goods to specific locations with small picking robots that deliver each box to workers. LG CNS plans to secure more advanced robot management technology through technology verification activities with various domestic and overseas robotics companies.
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