| Abstract |
Usually, in assembly plants, shuttles are supplied by brushes. Although the method is not expansive,
many drawbacks appear for high requirement applications. In medical/pharmaceutical and
semiconductor application fields, some constraints are unavoidable: e.g. human intervention or
maintenance must be kept to the minimal levels; ambient air pollution with particles must be low or
inexistent. This leads to use an inductive charge system. As for technical and economical reasons the
charge process must be located in restricted areas, energy storage devices are used on the shuttles. For
the shuttles, energy flows have to be well managed in order to work properly. An optimisation tool
and a modelling will help to manage energy flows and place the right number of charge stations at the
right places regarding to the shuttle electrical consumption. |
