Increased Agility by Using Autonomous AGVs in Reconfigurable Factories

Daniel Strametz, Michael Reip, Rudolf Pichler, Christian Maasem, Martin Höffernig, Michael Pichler

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Abstract

Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) have come up to a quite familiar
picture of nowadays manufacturing sites and in general they follow some rigidly
given maps of the shopfloor. Future-oriented concepts require a much more agile approach that allows AGVs to continue its logistic tasks at the shopfloor securely and safely though being confronted with recently newly aligned facilities, newbarriers and boundaries without necessary reprogramming the AGV‘s environment in front.
The actual paper deals with solutions which were worked out in the research
and learning factory “smartfactory@tugraz” where all relevant facilities for these
research goals have been available. Additional insights and results derive from the research facility of the Center Connected Industry and its industrial application eco system. So numerous Mobile Working Stations (MWS), the latest version of a Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) and a commercially available AGV belong to the core equipment of the presented research.
As a result there could be found, that the specified requirements and newapplications of future production and logistic concepts can be achieved via dynamic targets. With this development, targets can be changed locally and the AGV automatically moves to the current target position, without necessary changes in the control software.
Translated title of the contributionHöhere Agilität durch den Einsatz von autonomen AGVs in rekonfigurierbaren Produktionsstätten
Original languageEnglish
Pages433 - 440
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2021
EventINTERNATIONAL STUTTGART CONFERENCE ON AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTION - Stuttgart, Germany
Duration: 9 Nov 202010 Nov 2020
https://conference.arena2036.de/event/1/

Conference

ConferenceINTERNATIONAL STUTTGART CONFERENCE ON AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTION
Abbreviated titleSCAP2020
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityStuttgart
Period9/11/2010/11/20
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