Autonomous Guided Vehicle Systems

1. Glossary

1.1. FTS = Fahrerlose Transportsysteme

1.2. AGV = Automated guided vehicle-systems

1.3. AWT = Automatische Warentransportanlage

2. Industry

2.1. Application

2.1.1. HHLA CTA

2.2. Development

2.2.1. http://www.fts-kompetenz.de

2.2.2. http://www.ds-automotion.com

2.2.3. http://www.ek-automation.com

2.2.4. http://www.ant-system.de

3. Conferences

3.1. DARS = Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems -> http://dars2010.epfl.ch/

4. AGV Problems

4.1. Design & Layout

4.1.1. Design of Flowpath layout

4.1.2. Vehicle requirements

4.1.3. Number and location of pick-up and delivery points

4.2. Control

4.2.1. Vehicle dispatching

4.2.2. Vehicle routing & scheduling

4.2.3. Traffic management: prediction and avoidance of collisions and deadlocks

4.2.4. Positioning of idle vehicles

4.3. Maintainance

4.3.1. Battery management

4.3.2. Failure management

5. Papers

5.1. Arnaud et al: Using Uppaal for the secure and optimal control of AGV fleets

5.2. Reveliotis et al: Conflict Resolution in Free-Ranging Multi-Vehicle Systems: A Resource Allocation Paradigm

5.3. Kim et al: Conflict-free shortesttime bi-directional AGV routing

5.4. Maza, Castagna: Conflict-free AGV Routing in Bi-directional Network

5.5. LaValle, Hutchinson: Optimal Motion Planning for Multiple Robots Having Independent Goals

5.6. Psaraftis: Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems

6. Theories

6.1. Supervisory control theory

6.2. Resource allocation systems

6.3. Geometric motion planning