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PathOn AMR — Autonomous Mobile Robot

Status: placeholder — no files released yet. The AMR is built and running: it appears in the Smart Logistics Cell demo, driving itself between work cells with a load on its deck. What does not exist yet is anything you could build one from — no CAD, no BOM, no STLs, no bringup code. The photo below is a frame from that demo, not a render.

A small autonomous mobile robot that handles delivery between work cells in the PathOn Smart Logistics Cell (SLC). An arm transfers the load onto its deck, and the AMR drives itself to the next station — it holds a map, plans its own path, and can route around an obstacle that appears in front of it.

PathOn AMR carrying a load

The AMR mid-run in the Smart Logistics Cell, carrying a block between stations.

What it does in the cell

Job Delivery between work cells — the long leg of the line
Navigation Nav2: builds and localizes against a map, plans its own path
Handoff An arm loads it at the origin cell; it drives to the next station
Obstacles Replans around them
Trade-off More capable and more complex — mapping, localization, and planning all have to work

The point of shipping both

The SLC deliberately runs an AMR and a line-following AGV on the same line, because choosing between them is the decision a real plant makes every day:

AGV AMR (this page)
Route Fixed — the line is stuck to the floor Software; any point-to-point on the map
Needs a map No Yes
Blocked path Stops and waits Plans around it
Cost and failure modes Cheap, reliable, few of them Higher, and mostly software-shaped
Changing the route Re-lay the tape Edit a goal

Two vehicles, one work cell, and the difference is visible in a single run: the AGV shuttles within a cell, the AMR carries between them.

What a release would contain

  • Chassis and deck CAD, plus printable meshes
  • BOM: drive, wheels, battery, compute, and the lidar it maps with
  • Nav2 configuration — costmaps, planner and controller parameters, tuned for this base
  • Bringup: ros2_control interfaces, odometry, teleop fallback
  • The deck interface it shares with the AGV, so loads and fixtures interchange
  • A simulation model of the base and the cell

Interested in this one, or want to be told when it lands? Discord.

License

Hardware files in this project — CAD, meshes, assembly docs, and photos — are covered by the hardware LICENSE, a Standard Digital File License:

  • Personal use — print, build, and modify these for your own personal, non-commercial use.
  • No redistribution — do not repost the files or printed parts anywhere, free or paid, including remixes.
  • No organizational or commercial use without written permission — this applies to companies, schools, and universities alike, and covers selling the files or prints and using the parts in a product, production line, service, course, or lab.

Licensing for organizations, including schools and universities, is available — contact the copyright holder.