Fuzzy logic inference system (FIS) has been widely applied to the controller design for automatic guided vehicles (AGV) because FIS allows easier controller design under uncertainty and nonlinearity (Hwang et al., 2007; Godjevac & Steele, 1999; Baturone et al., 2008; Er &Deng, 2004; Ng & Trivedi, 1998). Wall following is a commonly adopted scheme for an AGV to navigate in the indoor or outdoor ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate intraoperative subtenon triamcinolone acetonide (TA) as an adjunct to Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV) implantation. DESIGN Retrospective comparative case series. PARTICIPANTS Forty-two consecutive cases of uncontrolled glaucoma undergoing AGV implantation: 19 eyes receiving intraoperative subtenon TA and 23 eyes that did not receive TA. METHODS A retrospective chart revie...

AIM To explore the efficacy of preoperative intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) injection combined with Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV) implantation in the treatment of neovascular glaucoma (NVG). METHODS This retrospective study included 35 eyes from 35 patients who underwent preoperative IVB and AGV implantation for treatment of NVG. Findings such as intraocular pressure (IOP) number of anti-glaucoma...

Enterprise integration is a top priority for many organizations attempting to streamline business processes, coordinate disparate functions, improve corporate responsiveness to customers and partners and optimize supply chains in an effort to improve productivity. Web services orientation has appeared as a new paradigm for realizing enterprise integration, and fundamental to the service orienta...

This paper proposes a path planning strategy for an Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV) navigating in a partially known environment. Global path planning is performed by first using a spatial database of the region to be traversed containing selected attributes such as height data and soil information from a suitable spatial database. The database is processed using a biomimetic swarm algorithm tha...

Abstract A new generation of Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGV) virtualises their Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) in the cloud deploying 5G-based communication infrastructures to provide ultra-fast and reliable links between AGV its PLC. Stopping an can result a loss tens thousands euros per minute therefore, use machine learning techniques anticipate behavior seems be appropriate. This work p...

Automatic Guided Vehicles or AGVs are increasingly being used in manufacturing plants for transportation tasks. Optimal scheduling of AGVs is a difficult problem. A learning AGV is very attractive in a manufacturing plant since it is hard to manually optimize the scheduling algorithm to each new situation. In this paper we compare four reinforcement learning methods for scheduling AGVs. Q-learn...

Students following the Mechatronics Program stream at the University of Waikato often continue to a MSc degree that can involve the design of, or modification to, an Autonomous Guided Vehicle (AGV). Our challenge is to inspire and extend the capabilities of these students, a success that can perhaps be measured by the sophistication of the AGVs currently being produced by our graduates.