Agricultural and forestry machines
Construction and mining machines
Special and municipal vehicles
Aircraft tractor
Airport fire truck
Baler
Combine harvesters
Crop protection sprayer
Drill rig
Excavator
Fire truck
Forage harvester
Garbage truck
Grape harvesters
Heavy truck
Mobile crane
Robots in agriculture
Roller
Seed drills
Timber harvester
Vehicles for mining
Overview
Intelligent sensors for more powerful mobile machines
Fields of expertise
Solutions – designed for machine manufacturers
SICK has a comprehensive, innovative technology portfolio. Based on these technologies, SICK develops tailor-made sensor solutions for mobile machines. The portfolio ranges from standard sensors and sensors with integrated application software through to complex sensor system solutions. Please contact us if you are interested. We would be happy to provide you with more information.
Motion control and positioning
Sensors such as encoders, inclination, proximity and ultrasonic sensors, as well as pressure and level sensors manufactured by SICK, are the basis of numerous positioning and detection tasks in mobile machines.
Collision warning
Driver assistance systems based on LiDAR sensors or 3D vision sensors from SICK reliably detect blind zones around mobile machines and warn the operator of potential sources of danger or accidents in good time. This means that the driver is able to identify and avoid possible collisions before they happen. As a result, damage is less often caused to the vehicle and its surroundings. This reduces the machine downtime and repair costs.
Contour guidance
Driver assistance systems for contour guidance based on LiDAR sensors from SICK increase the efficiency of mobile machines, while at the same time reducing the operator’s workload. Intelligent sensors with integrated application software can evaluate the raw data and the vehicle data themselves. Application-relevant results are therefore available without CPU-intensive processing in the driver assistance system provided by the vehicle manufacturer.
Trends & news
Visionary-B 3D assistance system prevents accidents when driving backwards
In fall, huge mountains of sugar beets pile up at Pfeifer & Langen with headquarters in Cologne. One of the leading sugar producers in Europe is supplied with millions of beets during the “Sugar Beet Harvest” campaign. The seemingly endless delivery by huge trucks and redistribution by wheel loaders creates a huge amount of logistical effort. In order to increase collision avoidance safety for reversing wheel loaders and workers at the beet plate reloading point, the sugar producer, in close cooperation with the RCI professional association, decided on the sharp eye of the Visionary-B CV 3D driver assistance system from SICK.
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Mobile machines – smart with sensors
The rapid pace of progress in electronics and sensor technology today is determining the level of innovation in mobile machines. The manufacturers and users of agricultural and forestry, construction and mining machines as well as special and municipal vehicles are harnessing the potential of intelligent sensors from SICK. Processes are becoming more efficient, more precise, and more environmentally friendly.
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Accident and collision avoidance with the driver assistance system
Multi-million-dollar damage that occurs during aircraft ground handling leads to high insurance payouts every year. As a result, ground handling services are encumbered with higher insurance premiums. In order to avoid damage, Lufthansa LEOS GmbH relies on SICK’s laser scanner experience when tugging aircrafts and is putting the APS driver assistance system from SICK to the test for its aircraft tractor fleet. At sites in Frankfurt and Munich, LEOS operates a fleet totaling 38 aircraft tractors. Each aircraft tractor deals with an average of eight to fifteen tugs or pushbacks a day. During these maneuvers, collisions with objects on the runway or in the hangar or even other aircrafts are possible.
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