Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML
Aulis
What is Aulis?
Aulis is a modular and open operating system for intralogistics that ...
- solves in-plant transportation by means of mobile robots
- is not dependent on one or more robots or FMS manufacturers
- takes on the monitoring and management of heterogeneous mobile robots
- is expandable concerning manufacturers, participants such as mobile robots or functionality
- can be adapted to individual application requirements in accordance with the modular principle
What features offers Aulis?
Aulis ...
- can be used universally in line production and matrix production
- can use a wide range of optimization criteria (throughput, utilization, energy of mobile robots, delays, ...)
- is independent of the execution environment (on-premise, cloud or hybrid)
- is scalable in terms of the coordination of mobile robots and the jobs to be optimized
- enables interoperability with other (sub-) systems, such as ERP and WMS systems
Aulis for in-house transportation using mobile robots
Who is Aulis for?
Companies with internal logistics
Manufacturers of mobile robots and FMS
System integrators
The modules of the system
Material flow
The material flow module offers the following features:
- Standardized, digital representation of each material flow as an active participant Need for a (de facto) standard for transport orders
- Digital mapping using a domain-specific language (Material Flow Description Language - MFDL) as a (de facto) standard for transport orders
- Mapping of (1:1) transports
Order optimization
Order optimization offers the following features:
- Proactive distribution of transport orders to mobile robots
- Consideration of temporal conditions, sequences and characteristics of the mobile robots
- Deadlock prevention at loading and unloading stations
- Scalable heuristic and probabilistic optimization (Simulated Annealing, TabuSearch, ...)
