Fleet Management System (e.g. Open-RMF)

Upper-level software that assigns tasks, plans routes, and prevents conflicts across a whole fleet of robots.

A fleet management system oversees a group of robots: it receives tasks and decides which robot to send, plans each one's route, prevents collisions and deadlocks at hallways and intersections, and coordinates shared infrastructure such as elevators, automatic doors, and charging stations. Warehouse AGV/AMR (automated guided vehicle / autonomous mobile robot) vendors typically each have their own proprietary scheduling system, which makes it hard to manage a mixed fleet of different brands together. Open-RMF (Robotics Middleware Framework), led by Open Robotics, is an open-source, ROS 2–based framework that provides traffic scheduling, task allocation, facility interfaces, and adapters for different robot brands, letting heterogeneous robots operate together in settings like hospitals and office buildings. It sits one level above single-robot navigation systems such as Nav2.

ExampleA hospital's medicine-delivery robots and cleaning robots come from different manufacturers; Open-RMF coordinates them so they share elevators and don't collide in the same hallway.

Also called

robot fleet scheduling system, Open-RMF

Related

Multi-robot Collaboration · Autonomous Mobile Robot · Automated Guided Vehicle · Multi-Agent Path Finding · Robot Operating System 2 · ROS 2 Navigation Stack (Nav2)

Sources

Open-RMF 官网 (Chinese)
open-rmf/rmf (GitHub)