SOLVING THE FAILING TRACK MARKER PROBLEM IN AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLE SYSTEMS – A CASE STUDY
This paper is a case study of the development of a localization and positioning subsystem of an Automated Guided Vehicle-based transportation system. The described system uses primarily RFID markers for localization. In some deployments, those markers occasionally fail, mostly due to being crushed...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Lublin University of Technology
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Informatyka, Automatyka, Pomiary w Gospodarce i Ochronie Środowiska |
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| Online Access: | https://ph.pollub.pl/index.php/iapgos/article/view/1512 |
| Summary: | This paper is a case study of the development of a localization and positioning subsystem of an Automated Guided Vehicle-based transportation system. The described system uses primarily RFID markers for localization. In some deployments, those markers occasionally fail, mostly due to being crushed by cargo platforms operated by a human or due to internal defects. Those failures are not common enough to warrant switching from marker-based localization to a more sophisticated technique, but they require additional effort from maintenance staff. In this case study, we present our solution to this problem – a self-tuning algorithm that is able to detect marker failures and, in most cases, keep the system operational. The paper briefly discusses business circumstances under which such a solution is reasonable and then describes in detail the entire technical process, including data acquisition, verification, algorithm development and finally, the result of deploying the system in production.
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| ISSN: | 2083-0157 2391-6761 |