Travel-Area Monitoring for Intelligent Free-Ranging Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) Control

[3322834] Kay本研究的目的是开发一种系统，通过监测设施中车辆的行驶区域来控制多辆自由放养自动引导车辆（agv）。监测过程将通过使用架空摄像机来覆盖交通繁忙的大片地区，并在使用摄像机被认为不经济的地区使用其他类型的传感器来实现。行驶区域监控可以充分利用这些车辆的潜在能力，在动态的室内环境中提供低成本、灵活、安全的长距离物料搬运。区域监测将确保识别车辆在点之间移动的短行程路线。该研究解决了一个对未来工厂的物料处理和操作有重大影响的问题。它在不同移动设备（包括操作人员）共用通道的环境中特别有用。自由移动agv的使用提供了一些有线引导agv无法提供的灵活性。他们在工作领域的控制更具挑战性，数据密集型，并且在计算需求方面很费力。

9322834 Kay The objective of this research is to develop a system to control multiple free-ranging automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) by monitoring the travel areas of the vehicles in a facility. The monitoring process is to be achieved through the use of overhead cameras to cover large areas of heavy traffic and other types of sensors for areas where the use of cameras is considered to be uneconomical. Travel area monitoring can fully exploit the potential capabilities of these vehicles to provide low-cost, flexible, and safe long distance materials handling in a dynamic indoor environment. Area monitoring will ensure the identification of short travel time routes for vehicles moving between points. The research addresses a problem that has significant implications in material handling and the operation of the factories of the future. It is particularly useful in environments where the aisles are shared by different mobile devices, including operating personnel. The use of free-ranging AGVs offers some flexibility that wire-guided AGVs do not offer. Their control in the work area is more challenging, data intensive, and taxing in terms of computational requirements.