Title :
An automatic approach for the generation of the roadmap for multi-AGV systems in an industrial environment
Author :
Digani, Valerio ; Sabattini, Lorenzo ; Secchi, Cristian ; Fantuzzi, Cesare
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Sci. & Methods for Eng. (DISMI), Univ. of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Abstract :
This paper deals with the automatic generation of a roadmap. We propose an approach to build a roadmap for Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) used for logistics operations in industrial environments. The algorithm computes a roadmap in such a way that the coverage, the connectivity and the redundancy of the paths are maximized. In this way the flexibility and the efficiency of the AGV system can be increased. The proposed approach is validated by means of comparison with different roadmaps manually built in real plants.
Keywords :
industrial robots; logistics; path planning; automated guided vehicles; automatic approach; industrial environment; logistics operations; multiAGV systems; roadmap generation; Laplace equations; Layout; Manuals; Optimization; Redundancy; Roads; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2014.6942789
