Your Application, Mobile, Anywhere
Accelerate time to market and get the maximum out of your application by placing it on a HillBird Mobile Platform, anywhere
Known Markets for Mobile Platforms
Transportation
For a variety of transport tasks, mobile platforms are used with mainly wheels or tracks. This makes it difficult to accurately position a transported object, especially when it concerns transport over difficult terrain. Flexibility is often very limited (mainly 2D).
Inspection and Maintenance
The so-called robot dogs are extreme flexible and therefore suitable for inspection tasks but are hardly suitable for performing physical tasks, often necessary for carrying out maintenance.
Construction
Where accuracy is required, the construction sector mainly uses mobile platforms with hydraulic leveling legs. These provide stability but do not allow for large dynamic forces and mobility is also limited.
HillBird Mobile Platform
Flexibility
Even the most demanding transport tasks become easy with the HillBird Mobile Platform.
The platform can be seen as a robot with six degrees of freedom (X, Y, Z, Rx, Ry, Rz) and can move around a freely programmable point in space. This even without moving the feet.
Allows a difficult maintenance task to be carried out with just one person with a minimum of tools.
Precision
The HillBird Mobile Platform stands for a high degree of stability and stiffness, necessary to allow a robot placed on it, for example, to accurately perform a task.
Think, for instance, about arc welding where position and path accuracy play a major role for an optimal result.
Capacity
A high degree of stability and stiffness is also needed for applications where a short cycle time is required to achieve a favorable ROI.
Applications where a short cycle time is required are mainly applications with a repetitive character, such as in logistics, for example placing boxes on pallets or in horticulture, harvesting fruit.
The product specification of a leading manufacturer of mainly industrial robots indicates that if the support on which the robot is placed is not sufficiently stiff, this can have a negative effect on at least the lifespan of the robot.
Terrain and Environment
The legs of the HillBird Mobile Platform can adjust to the surface over which it moves, so that all legs can always contribute optimally to stability when required.
The legs can move over obstacles without touching them.
The feet of the platform can be chosen in such a way that they fit as optimally with the movement task to be performed.
When hydraulic cylinders are used for the propulsion of the platform, it is possible to house all electronics in the hull of the platform so that the platform can be used in harsh environments such as corrosive, fire or explosion hazard environments. If a pressure-resistant hull is chosen, the platform can also be used for deep-sea applications.
Focus
HillBird B.V.
- Focuses on the realization of mobile platforms in more variants and sizes with at least 4 legs driven with electric or hydraulic cylinders that can be used in all kinds of terrain and environments.
- Including control of the platform itself.
- Provides mobile platforms to third parties who will add their application to a HillBird Mobile Platform.
- Path planning and controls is most often related to the application added and can be part of the scope of the third party.
- The goal is to deliver the same level of reliability and availability that matches that of industrial robots. This is to enable global employability.
“We let you focus on your core application
And we will focus on delivering the mobile platform to match that
By joining forces, success is achieved faster and less risk is taken”
Haayo Terpstra
Owner