Never interrupts
A robot running a task finishes it first. Low robots just stop bidding.
Software product
NTEC Fleet ManagerEvery Robot. Every Brand. One Brain.
Automated task assignment, collision-free path planning for the whole fleet, and robots from different manufacturers under one open standard.
- 0+
- Agents in one layout
- VDA 5050
- Open interface standard
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- Interface for multi-vendor fleets
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- Vendor lock-in
Fleet view · live planMQTT · VDA 5050
Multi-manufacturer
Mixed fleets stall when every brand brings its own brain.
Today · one manager per brand
- Brands can’t yield to each other, so aisles get split or fenced
- Separate maps, screens and rules per vendor
- Each new brand means a new WMS integration
- Locked into one vendor’s prices
With NTEC · one shared brain
- One map, one rulebook, one plan in time
- Every robot yields to every other brand
- One WMS / ERP integration for all
- Buy each robot on merit
Architecture
One control layer for every robot.
Your business systems on top, any VDA 5050 robot below, and one Fleet Manager in between.
Your systems
ERPWMSMESOperators on the map
REST API /fms/v1 · WebSocket live feed
NTEC Fleet Manager
Task Assignment Bidding EngineMulti-Agent Traffic ControlAuto ChargingZones & RulesConsole & Digital Twin
MQTT · VDA 5050 v3.0 orders, states, instant actions
Any VDA 5050 robot
Automated task assignment
Every task finds its best robot.
No dispatcher needed: the closest capable robot always takes the job.
Step 01
Order in
From your WMS or MES by API, or a click on the live map.
Step 02
Priority queue
Urgent first; first-in, first-out within the same priority.
Step 03
Eligibility check
Online, in auto mode, no fatal error, battery 20% or more, idle, payload fits.
Step 04
Best robot wins
The 3 nearest candidates, ranked by real driving cost.
Step 05
Dispatched
Collision-free plan, VDA 5050 order, live status to completion.
OPENASSIGNEDIN_PROGRESSCOMPLETEDTASK · P → D
URGENT · T-071
URGENT · NEW2
NORMAL · T-053
NORMAL · T-064
Candidates ranked by driving cost
R1
R3
R7
- 0 ms
- The queue is re-evaluated five times a second.
- 0 s
- No robot free? The task waits and retries, with the reason on screen.
- Auto
- An order a robot rejects goes straight back in line.
Multi-agent path finding
All robots, planned together in time.
Simple fleet systems plan each robot alone and stop robots when they clash — that’s where gridlock comes from. NTEC plans in space and time.
1 · Time-expanded A*
Each robot’s route is timed to the half-second: its speed, aisle and zone limits, and pick or drop time.
2 · ECBS + LNS
Conflicts are solved fleet-wide; only robots near a conflict re-plan, never the whole fleet.
3 · ADG release
A robot enters a node only once robots planned before it have left. No collisions, no deadlocks.
A · crosses at t+2.0 sB · holds 0.5 s, then goes
Idle robots in the way get a parking order. Late robots are re-timed automatically.
Automated charging
Robots charge themselves.
R3 · 72%
≤10%
Urgent alert
≤30%
No new tasks; heads to a charger when idle
30–90%
Working range — takes tasks normally
≥90%
Back to work
30–90% — Working range — takes tasks normally
Nearest free charger
The charging trip is planned like any task: collision-free.
Self-healing
An unconfirmed charge is retried; repeated failures are paused and flagged.
Fair queueing
All chargers busy? The most depleted robot goes first.
Default levels shown; each robot’s own factsheet levels take precedence.
Zones & traffic rules
Traffic rules you draw on the map.
Safety and site discipline become map edits, not robot reprogramming.
Zone typeWhat it does on your floor
Maps & zones · Layout-ABlocked
DraftPublishedArchived
Published rule sets are versioned and locked: every change is traceable.
Operator console
A live control room in the browser.
Nothing to install on operator PCs. Data streams live over WebSocket.
- 01
Dashboard
Live map, KPIs, routes, agents
- 02
Vehicles
Add-robot wizard, live state
- 03
Tasks
Click source and target on the map
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Orders
Full history, node by node
- 05
Traffic
Plan scrubber, what-if solver
- 06
Charging
Sessions and live events
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Layouts
Import and export LIF maps
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Layout editor
Generate aisles in 4 patterns
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Maps & zones
Draw, publish, distribute
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Settings
Users, master data, theme
MQTT · connected
Interface preview — simulated data
One click to pause, resume, cancel, re-localise or send a robot to charge — every action checked against what that robot supports.
Digital twin simulator
Prove it before you buy a robot.
Send us your layout as DWG or PDF and we’ll simulate your fleet on it — free.
- 1Size the fleetTest how many robots your throughput really needs.
- 2Validate the layoutAisle directions, release zones, charger count.
- 3Train operators earlyYour team learns the console before the first robot lands.
Digital twin · Layout-ASimulation
What the twin does
- Simulates every registered robot with full VDA 5050 behaviour
- Accepts or rejects orders exactly as real robots do
- Runs pick, drop, charging and release-zone requests
- Shows each robot’s plan up to 2 minutes ahead
- Injects faults: errors, manual mode, pauses
- Runs faster than real time to test whole shifts
Built for mixed fleets
Tested on a mixed-brand warehouse.
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- Vehicle types
- 0
- Manufacturer profiles
- 0
- Nodes
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- Directed edges
- 0
- Stations
Prototype test layout with simulated vehicle profiles; site layouts are built from your survey.
Permissions per robot type
Each node and edge lists which vehicle types may use it, with its own speed and rotation rules. A forklift aisle stays a forklift aisle.
Open standards, both ways
VDA 5050 v3.0 to talk to robots. LIF 1.0 to import and export layouts, so your map is never trapped in one tool.
What you get
Six reasons the numbers work.
Lower cost per move
Robots cover 24/7 shifts, so yearly wage raises stop compounding.
No vendor lock-in
Mix brands freely and buy each robot on price, payload and service.
Scale without rework
Register a new robot, it syncs its factsheet and starts taking tasks.
Safer floors
Collision-free plans, speed zones and one-at-a-time areas near people.
More uptime
Self-charging, automatic retries and re-queueing keep work moving.
Full visibility
Every task, order, error and charge is live on screen and logged.
Compatible robots
Any VDA 5050 robot. Including ours.
The full NTEC AMR range runs on Fleet Manager. Robots from other vendors connect through the same standard interface.
A1 / LIFT-UPLift-up AMR600 – 1,500 kgA2 / TOWINGTowing AMR1,000 – 3,000 kgA3 / FORKLIFTForklift AMR1,000 – 2,000 kgA4 / ROLLER-TOPRoller-top AMR100 – 500 kgA5 / HEAVY-DUTYHeavy-duty AMR3 – 10 t
Robots must implement VDA 5050 v3.0 over MQTT. Have a robot that doesn’t? Tell us the model and we’ll review its interface.
How we deliver
From site survey to steady state.
- Step 01
Map your flows
Site survey, volumes and routes. Your floor becomes a LIF layout.
- Step 02
Prove it in the twin
Robot count, chargers, zones and aisle rules, tested before purchase.
- Step 03
Connect and integrate
Robots join over VDA 5050; your WMS, ERP or MES joins through the API.
- Step 04
Run and improve
Live console, error history, versioned layouts and zones as the site grows.
Tech sheet
Under the hood, for your IT team.
NTEC Fleet ManagerFMS · VDA 5050 v3.0
- Robot interface
- VDA 5050 v3.0 over MQTT (Eclipse Mosquitto broker)
- Layouts
- LIF 1.0 import and export · built-in generator and editor
- Planning
- Time-expanded A* · ECBS · LNS repair · ADG release
- Integration
- REST API /fms/v1 · WebSocket push stream
- Core services
- Go · PostgreSQL · Redis
- Console
- Browser-based · light and dark themes
- Deployment
- Docker Compose services, on-premise on your network
- Scale
- 100+ agents in a single layout
- Tuning
- Planning step, leases and charge levels configurable per site
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
See your fleet run before it arrives.
We model your floor in the digital twin and show the robot count, charger count and layout on your own data.