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A guidance technique for an automated guided vehicle

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Automated Guidance Vehicles' guidance techniques, make use, in most vehicles, of a painted strip or a cable buried in the floor. Free ranging vehicles are now also available in limited types but at prohibitive cost. This work presents a type of guidance technique whereby the vehicle follows a path created by the light emitted from suspended fluorescent lights.

The method has been tested on a multi-directional vehicle. The results are encouraging when compared with other available guidance techniques. The possible integration of this guidance method with a navigation method could make AGVs more attractive to most of the manufacturing environments. The design, implementation and experimental results are outlined and described.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Natal, King George V Avenue, 4001, Durban, South Africa

    Z. Katz & G. Bright

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Katz, Z., Bright, G. A guidance technique for an automated guided vehicle. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 7, 198–202 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02601624

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