International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems

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Positioning and Driving Control of Fork-type Automatic Guided Vehicle With Laser Navigation

  • Kim, Jaeyong (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Cho, Hyunhak (Department of Interdisciplinary Cooperative Course: Robot, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Sungshin (Department of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2013.12.04
  • Accepted : 2013.12.19
  • Published : 2013.12.25
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Abstract

We designed and implemented a fork-type automatic guided vehicle (AGV) with a laser guidance system. Most previous AGVs have used two types of guidance systems: magnetgyro and wire guidance. However, these guidance systems have high costs, are difficult to maintain with changes in the operating environment, and can drive only a pre-determined path with installed sensors. A laser guidance system was developed for addressing these issues, but limitations including slow response time and low accuracy remain. We present a laser guidance system and control system for AGVs with laser navigation. For analyzing the performance of the proposed system, we designed and built a fork-type AGV, and performed repetitions of our experiments under the same working conditions. The results show an average positioning error of 51.76 mm between the simulated driving path and the driving path of the actual fork-type AGV. Consequently, we verified that the proposed method is effective and suitable for use in actual AGVs.

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