Visual Monitoring of Swarms of Industrial Robots

With the increasing automation of industry and the introduction of robotics in every step of the production chain, the problem of safety has become acute. The article proposes a solution to the problem of safety in production using a visual control system for the fleet of loading automated guided vehicles (AGV). The visual control system is built as towers equipped with cameras. This approach allows to be independent of equipment vendors and allows flexible reconfiguration of the AGV fleet. The cameras detect the appearance of a loading robot, identify it and track its trajectory. Data about the robots’ movements is collected and analyzed on a server. A prototype of the visual control system was tested with the Duckietown project.