08/29/2025
Bosch Rexroth | App | Factory IT | ctrlX MOTION

Bosch Rexroth – ROKIT Navigator

The VDA 5050 compatible ROKIT Navigator from Bosch Rexroth is your innovative and future-proof solution for precise and efficient motion planning for a wide range of mobile robots and vehicle kinematics. The navigation software reliably guides your automated guided vehicles (AGVs) or autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) from A to B and ensures comprehensible, natural driving behavior – even in dynamic, complex and confined environments. With functions such as fast and high-precision docking at transfer stations and optional obstacle avoidance, the ROKIT Navigator takes your logistics to a new level.

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Future-proof with VDA 5050

The ROKIT Navigator is fully compatible with VDA 5050-capable fleet management systems. The intelligent implementation of the VDA 5050 standard enables particularly fast, simple integration and commissioning – without adapters or additional interfaces. This minimizes your development effort and prepares you optimally for future challenges.

Open interfaces for flexible integration

Thanks to its modular and open architecture, the navigation software for mobile robots adapts seamlessly to a wide range of requirements – from use with the ROKIT Locator or other advanced localization solutions to various vehicle kinematics. Open interfaces and the intuitive aXessor user interface minimize the parameterization effort for different vehicle types and enable the flexible integration of additional technologies.

A modular toolkit for AGV/AMR

Combine the ROKIT Navigator with the ROKIT Locator for a powerful solution for precise localization and efficient navigation of your mobile robots. With ROKIT – The Robotics Kit and the automation system ctrlX AUTOMATION, you benefit from modular software and hardware solutions that you can combine with each other as well as with third-party solutions according to your needs. The ROKIT Navigator is available as a modular Docker container solution, but also as an app for the innovative, Linux-based operating system ctrlX OS – a central component of ctrlX AUTOMATION. As an open system solution, the navigation software can be easily integrated into the vehicle control (ctrlX CORE) and safety control (ctrlX SAFETY), since all the information required for the other software components is available in the system via the ctrlX Data Layer.

Features

  • VDA 5050 interface: fast, efficient, expandable

  • Perfectly suited for use with the ROKIT Locator

  • Supports common vehicle kinematics

  • Simple, fast and seamless integration and commissioning

  • Modern software deployment approach and open interfaces

  • High-precision (< 1 cm) and fast docking

  • Particularly suitable for dynamic, complex, and confined environments

  • Reliable and natural driving behavior

  • Integration of additional sensor technologies

  • Support through aXessor user interface

  • Available as Docker container or app for ctrlX OS

  • Optional obstacle avoidance

  • Indoor and outdoor use possible


Prerequisites

  • Each ROKIT Navigator Client requires a license.

  • Contact us for detailed information.

Support

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Factory IT
Motion
Platform
ctrlX OS
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Bosch Rexroth AG

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