The development of techniques for lateral and longitudinal control of vehicles has become an important and active research topic in the face of emerging markets for advanced autonomous guided vehicle (AGV). Considering an AGV is nonholonomic dynamic system with inherent nonlinearity, unmodelled disturbance and unstructured unmodelled dynamics, fuzzy logic system based control is appropriate. Th...

The study objectives are to 1) provide information regarding the use and benefits of Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) systems in manufacturing environments, and 2) review the literature related to design, modeling and simulation of AGV systems. We classify the tools utilized in design problems of AGV systems as analytical and simulation-based tools. Then, give examples of both categories from rel...

This paper proposes a new design for a bi-directional automated guided vehicle (AGV) system, in which two AGVs can exchange their loads, their scheduled transportation tasks, and even their vehicle numbers when they move in opposite directions. With this load-exchangeable AGV (EX-AGV) system, common problems such as conflicts and deadlocks will not occur; therefore, the load of an AGV is always...

With the rapid development of modern industry, application automated mechanical and electronic technology is gradually increasing, research on automatic path planning also receiving increasing attention. In this environment technological progress, growth knowledge economy, fierce competition, industrial intelligence has become an indispensable part social development. Industrial Automated Guide...

OBJECTIVES Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) have been shown to decrease aortic growth velocity (AGV) in Marfan syndrome (MFS). We sought to compare the effect of β-blockers and ACEI on AGV in MFS. STUDY DESIGN We retrospectively reviewed all data from all patients with MFS seen at Arkansas Children's Hospital between January 1, 1976 and January 1, 2013. Generalized least square...

Reducing cost of material handling has been a big challenge for companies. Flexible manufacturing system employed automated guided vehicles (AGV) to maintain efficiency and flexibility. This paper presents a new non-linear mathematical programming model to group n machines into N loops, to make an efficient configuration for AGV system in Tandem layout. The model minimizes bot...

PURPOSE To compare 3-year outcomes and complications of the Ahmed FP7 Glaucoma Valve (AGV) (New World Medical, Cucamonga, CA) and the Baerveldt Glaucoma Implant (BGI) 101-350 (Abbott Medical Optics, Abbott Park, IL) for the treatment of refractory glaucoma. DESIGN Multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial. PARTICIPANTS A total of 276 patients: 143 in the AGV group and 133 in the BG...

PURPOSE To compare the 5-year outcomes of the Ahmed FP7 Glaucoma Valve (AGV) (New World Medical, Cucamonga, CA) and the Baerveldt 101-350 Glaucoma Implant (BGI) (Abbott Medical Optics, Abbott Park, IL) for the treatment of refractory glaucoma. DESIGN Multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial. PARTICIPANTS A total of 276 patients, including 143 in the AGV group and 133 in the BGI gr...

Localization and navigation technology is one of the key technologies for Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV). In this paper we develop an AGV navigation system utilizing commercial Bluetooth GPS. WGS-84 coordinates system is converted to space rectangular coordinate system, which is combined with orientation information, initial position and gesture of AGV can be determined. Experimental result sho...

As a kind of wheeled mobile robot used in intelligent logistics system, AGV is mainly used for automatic material transportation, the precise positioning and path tracking is the assurance of accurate material transportation. In this article, the laser coordinate positioning technology is used to realize accurate positioning for AGV, a new method of target reference point selection is put forwa...