The Summary of AGV Guidance Technology

AGV is short for automated guided vehicle. AGV is unmanned automated guided carriage car equipped with a non-contact guidance with microcontroller as controlling core and battery as power. The basic functions of the AGV are driving automated, recognizing the site to stop and transfering loads. AGV has been more widely used, because it is a key equipment of flexible manufacturing systems and an important mean of modern logistics systems. Guidance technology is the most critical core technology in AGV system. In this paper the author consult a lot of relevant books and mainly compares principle of a variety of AGV navigation technologies ,analyzes the advantages and disadvantages and forecast the trend of the agv guidance technology development in the future so that relevant researchers can do further research.