An Indoor Positioning Technique for On-demand AGV Calling System

Trackless Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are just now emerging in smart manufacturing environments. The trackless AGV can autonomously navigate itself based on an environmental map created by using the data acquired by lidar. In human/AGV collaborative workspaces, users may need to call AGVs to their positions for dynamic tasks. In this study, we developed an on-demand AGV calling system for users to call the AGVs using their handheld devices. The novelty of this study is the automatic conversion of the user position into the corresponding coordinates in the environmental map adopted by the AGV.