BLDC motors from Ketterer – Powerful, precisely controllable drives for automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and automated guided carts (AGCs)

AGVs / AMRs have become an indispensable part of modern manufacturing and logistics. Such high-tech products have an elaborate AGV system architecture, comprising a large number of individual components and complex cabling. The complexity results in high development, procurement and commissioning costs, causing a clutter of cables and resulting in space shortages inside the vehicle. Therefore, AGVs are extremely costly to manufacture and most demanding in terms of maintenance.

With our ultra-compact, gearless BLDC drives, we have developed a new AGV system architecture together with our partners Synapticon, Brinkmann and Kontron. Consequently, the AGVS / AMR gets by with significantly fewer components and minimal interior.

Download Product brochure AGV-Platform Next Generation

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The abundance of possibilities for efficient application with an autonomous AGV / AGC system can be difficult to manage, even for experts. This raises the question of a solution with which new ideas and strategies for the use of an autonomous AGV / AGC system can be implemented quickly and at low cost.

This is why Ketterer developed the modular “Ket-Rob” drive platform, which forms the basis for customer-specific AGV / AGC systems and can be adapted quickly and flexibly to individual requirements in practice. Ketterer’s “Ket-Rob” helps to save both resources and many development steps along the way to an innovative AGV / AGC system.

Thanks to wheel hub drives, Ket-Rob works without additional gearboxes

The centerpiece of the Ket-Rob is the i-Wheel 3213 wheel hub drive. This makes it the only modular drive platform currently available on the market for AGV and AGV solutions without an additional gearbox. This brings many advantages: low wear, smooth running and maximum design freedom. 

It is equipped with a height-adjustable carrier platform. The steering wheels can rotate freely around the steering axis. The system can turn on the spot with the drive wheels rotating in opposite directions.