DocumentCode :
3719952
Title :
Autonomous unloading of heavy deformable goods: Market opportunities
Author :
Augusto Urru;Marco Bonini;Timo Burbach;Elena H?ng;Philipp Stein;Wolfgang Echelmeyer
Author_Institution :
Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany
fYear :
2015
Firstpage :
54
Lastpage :
59
Abstract :
The EU funded project RobLog recently developed a system able to autonomously unload coffee sacks from a standard container. Being the first of its kind, a further development is needed in order for the system to be competitive against manual labor. Financing this development entails a risk, hence a justified skepticism, which can be overcome by the longsighted view of the existing market potential. This paper presents a method to estimate the market potential of autonomous unloading systems for heavy deformable goods. Starting from the analysis of the coffee trade, first the current coffee traffic is investigated in order to calculate the number of autonomous systems needed to handle the imported sacks; Results are validated and the method is extended for the calculation of the potential of other market segments, where the same unloading technology can be applied.
Keywords :
"Containers","Automation","Conferences","Logistics","Informatics","Estimation","Europe"
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Service Operations And Logistics, And Informatics (SOLI), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2015.7367411
Filename :
7367411
Link To Document :
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