Estimate how much floor or site area a industrial robot fleet can cover during one operating day. The calculation combines robot count, productive travel speed, effective working width, route efficiency, and repeat-pass overlap to turn ideal swept area into a more realistic planning figure.
The output is shown in square meters, hectares, and acres.
Usable coverage estimates unique area addressed during the day. It is lower than ideal swept area because real routes lose time and repeat some ground.
Coverage does not prove service quality or task completion. Validate effective width and path efficiency with a site trial.
Eight robots moving productively at 1.2 m/s with a 0.8 m width for 6 hours have 165,888 m² of theoretical swept area. At 70% efficiency and 10% overlap, usable coverage is 104,509 m².
It is the usable width addressed by one pass, not necessarily the physical width of the robot.
Turns, access constraints, stops, repositioning, and nonworking travel reduce productive coverage.
Yes. Enter only time available for coverage, or account for charging by lowering path efficiency.
Enter the estimated percentage of swept area that is repeated or overlaps earlier passes.
Yes as a planning estimate, but use observed path efficiency from the actual layout when available.
| Variable | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Productive speed | Average speed while performing coverage work |
| Effective width | Usable width addressed per pass |
| Path efficiency | Productive share after turns and delays |
| Overlap | Area repeated on later passes |
| Operating time | Coverage-ready hours per robot |