• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07d
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• pp.2277-2279
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• 2001

This paper describes a vision-based steering control method for AGV which use dual motor drive. We suggest an algorithm which can be detect the guideline quickly and exactly for real time vision processing, and control the steering through an assign the CP (Control - Point) of input image. This method is tested via a IAGV which dual motor drive with a single camera in laboratory environment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.22 no.9 s.174
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• pp.107-114
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• 2005

With the recent progress in flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) in industry, increasing attention has been given to Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) systems. An AGV is a self-powered unit for transporting materials between stations without needing to be controlled by an operator. Such a system has several sensors to recognize the external state, and it is designed to travel between stations automatically without external assistance. To manage each device automatically in real time it requires a distributed controller with a main computer as the host, as well as a number of micro-controllers. In this study, an AGV system with dual motor drive was constructed. A Pentium 4 personal computer was set up as the main host for the distributed control, and this communicated with other micro-controllers in the management of the motor. The speed of each motor was also controlled by a micro-controller.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.12a
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• pp.209-212
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• 2000

This paper describes the design and implementation of a hard- wired AGV controller using CPLD(Complex Programmable Logic Device). The proposed controller manages a guidance equipment, motor and I/O sequence controller for a self-control traveling. Compared with a conventional $\mu$-processor, the CPLD controller using a hard-wired control method can reduce a difficult programming process. Also, the total costs of production are reduced, such as development time, product's size and difficulty because memory, combinational logic and sequential logics are implemented by CPLD. The Controller designed using behavioral description method with VHDL and was synthesized by MAX＋Plus II of the ALTERA co. We implemented controller using EPF10K10LC84-4 device.