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

用于智能自由移动自动导引车 (AGV) 控制的行驶区域监控

• 批准号: 9322834
• 负责人: Michael Kay
• 金额: $ 14.07万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-08-01 至 1998-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9322834&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Area; Monitoring; Intelligent; Free

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.

9322834 Kay这项研究的目标是开发一种系统，通过监控设施中车辆的行驶区域来控制多辆自由行驶的自动导引车(AGV)。监测过程将通过使用架空摄像头覆盖交通繁忙的大片区域来实现，并在使用摄像头被认为不经济的区域使用其他类型的传感器。旅行区域监控可以充分发挥这些车辆的潜力，在动态的室内环境中提供低成本、灵活和安全的长途物资处理。区域监测将确保为在两个地点之间移动的车辆确定较短的旅行时间路线。这项研究解决了一个对未来工厂的材料处理和运营具有重大影响的问题。在过道由不同的移动设备(包括操作人员)共享的环境中，它特别有用。自由行驶自动导引车的使用提供了一些线导自动导引车所不具备的灵活性。他们在工作领域的控制更具挑战性，数据密集型，在计算要求方面也更繁重。