In this research, a special form of Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) routing problem is investigated. The objective is to ®nd the shortest tour for a single, free-ranging AGV that has to carry out multiple pick and deliver (P&D) requests. This problem is an incidence of the asymmetric traveling salesman problem which is known to be NP-complete. An arti®cial neural network algorithm based on Kohon...

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are being increasingly used for intelligent transportation and distribution of materials in warehouses and auto-production lines. In this paper, a preliminary hazard analysis of an AGV’s critical components is conducted by the approach of Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA). To implement this research, a particular AGV transport system is mode...

We have been interested in Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGV) for several years. In this paper, we synthesize controllers for AGV applications using monocular vision. In particular, we are interested in road following and direction change tasks, and in analyzing the influence of extrinsic camera parameter perturbations on vehicle behavior. We use the bicycle as the kinematic vehicle model, and we ...

A novel probabilistic perception algorithm is presented as a real-time joint solution to data association, object tracking, and object classification for an autonomous ground vehicle in all-weather conditions. The presented algorithm extends a Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter originally built with a particle filter for data association and a Kalman filter for multi-object tracking (Miller et a...

Because of their flexibility, controllability and convenience, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) have gradually gained popularity in intelligent manufacturing because to adaptability, controllability, simplicity. We examine the relationship between AGV scheduling tasks, charging thresholds, power consumption, order address issue how affects flexible units with multiple AGVs. Aiming promote AGVs l...

Nowadays the market for industrial companies is becoming more and more globalized and highly competitive, forcing them to shorten the duration of the manufacturing system development time in order to reduce the time to market. In order to achieve this target, the hierarchical systems used in previous manufacturing systems are not enough because they cannot deal effectively with unexpected situa...

Abstract A typical manufacturing system requiring a high degree of automation usually includes warehouse, AGV, CNC, assembly line and laser marking equipment. Among them, AGV plays an important role on the overall operating quality efficiency. This paper studies control strategy under background system. Firstly two modes motion path are defined; flow chart movement between any points in is anal...

Health crisis caused by COVID-19 had a significant impact on the activities and performance of companies worldwide, namely in industries. In this context, adaptation to markets new demands consumers, readapt strategies, processes, products, approaches market, become paramount. case companies, some changes shop floor work systems essential, provide competitive advantages post-pandemic business s...

Flexible manufacturing Systems are automated manufacturing systems which have job shop flexibility and flow shop efficiency. One of the major concerns in Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) is the minimization of the total flow of material through the system. Facility layout design deals with the arrangement of machines, in order to minimise the total flow of parts in the system. The commonly u...