CAMoRo: mobile robots that work together.
A warehouse can contain several robot brands, people and manually driven forklifts. Moving safely and efficiently through that shared space takes more than each robot finding its own way.
In CAMoRo, we develop the real-time control and communication that help mobile robots coordinate their actions. The Interreg Flanders–Netherlands project brings research and industry partners together around collaborative autonomous mobile robots.
What does a robot need to cooperate?
A robot can know where it is without knowing what another vehicle intends to do. CAMoRo explores how to turn separate mobile systems into a coordinated operation.
- A shared view of the workspace. Robots need to exchange relevant position, intent and perception information across vendor boundaries.
- Communication that supports action. Shared information must arrive in time to inform navigation and control, not simply describe what has already happened.
- Coordination with people in the loop. Real workplaces include human-driven vehicles. A useful solution must account for that mixed traffic.
The aim is to make collaboration practical in dynamic environments, from logistics and industry to healthcare.
Connecting control, communication and integration.
Intermodalics brings its real-time software and ROS 2 experience to the platform that enables robots to work together.
- Start with the operation. With end users and the consortium, we define the technical and operational requirements that guide communication, algorithms and integration.
- Connect the robotic systems. We contribute control and communication software for exchanging position, intent and perception data with bounded latency.
- Bring the pieces into a mixed fleet. We integrate these capabilities around a demonstration involving autonomous mobile robots and manually driven forklifts.
This work builds on our experience in production-ready robot software and 2D and 3D localisation.
Robots and forklifts in the same aisle.
The setting. Fabriek Logistiek in Ghent provides a test environment where realistic warehouse situations can be reproduced and demonstrated.
The research focus. Our demonstration centres on cooperation between AMRs and human-driven forklifts. The question is how shared information can help robots anticipate manual traffic and coordinate movement through the same space.
What we want to establish. The goal is to support orderly mixed-fleet operation and address potential conflicts through coordination, rather than relying only on emergency stops.
A stronger basis for mixed-fleet robotics.
CAMoRo is working towards a platform and practical evidence that can support wider adoption of collaborative AMRs.
- Interoperable cooperation. A way for robots from different suppliers to exchange information and coordinate their actions.
- Validation in realistic operations. Demonstrations that expose integration and coordination questions beyond an isolated robot test.
- Knowledge that can be used again. Lessons in real-time communication, control and mixed traffic that inform future mobile-robot systems.
For us, these questions connect directly to the robot safety and localisation work we do with robot builders and operators.
A cross-border research collaboration.
CAMoRo stands for Collaborative Autonomous Mobile Robots. The project runs in 2026–2029 under Interreg Flanders–Netherlands, with High Tech NL as lead partner.
The consortium brings together High Tech NL, Universiteit Gent – IDLab, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, imec, Ambyon, Avular Innovations, Intermodalics, Zeal Robotics, WeNet, Agoria and Stichting Breda Robotics.
CAMoRo is co-funded by the European Union through the Interreg Flanders–Netherlands programme, with support from the Province of Flemish Brabant and VLAIO.
Visit the CAMoRo project website · Read the High Tech NL project overview
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