AGV is called Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) in Chinese, which means that it is equipped with electromagnetic or optical automatic guiding device.
AGV can drive along the prescribed guidance path, with safety protection and a variety of transfer functions of the transport vehicle, AGV belongs to the category of wheeled mobile robot (WMR - Wheeled Mobile Robot). It is a driver-less vehicle for industrial applications and is powered by a rechargeable battery.
Generally through the computer to control its route and behavior, or the use of electromagnetic track (electromagneticpath-followingsystem) to set up its route, electromagnetic track is glued to the floor, the unmanned trucks follow the electromagnetic track to bring the message to move and action.
AGVs were first used in the warehousing industry to realize the automatic handling of goods in and out of the warehouse. For example, Suning Logistics' large AGV robot warehouse, which can pick 10,000 pieces of supermarket and department store goods per day, is the first logistics warehouse in the entire Shandong Peninsula that truly realizes the intelligent operation of robots.
In the operation area of Suning Jinan robot warehouse, the yellow appearance of the Suning Logistics robot according to the route set by the system, orderly pack shelves to the picking platform queuing. In this process, rely entirely on system control, without human intervention.AGV dozens of robots in the warehouse shuttle, a busy scene but quiet and harmonious, like a science fiction blockbuster.
The AGV is used in the production line of the manufacturing industry to efficiently, accurately and flexibly complete the material handling tasks. And can be composed of more than one AGV flexible logistics handling system, handling route can be adjusted with the adjustment of the production process and timely adjustment, so that a production line can produce more than a dozen kinds of products, greatly improving the flexibility of production and competitiveness of enterprises.
Expanded
In addition to the above mentioned warehousing, manufacturing, AGV is also used in post offices, libraries, ports, terminals and airports, AGV's parallel operation, automation, intelligence and flexibility of the characteristics of the handling can be very good to meet the above type of occasion requirements.
And tobacco, medicine, food, chemical industry, for handling operations have clean, safe, no emission pollution and other special requirements of tobacco, medicine, food, chemical industry, the application of AGV has also been attached importance.
In dangerous places and special industries, for example, in the military, the AGV's automatic driving based on the integration of other detection and dismantling equipment, can be used for battlefield demining and position reconnaissance, the British military is developing the MINDER Recce is a reconnaissance vehicle, with mine detection, destruction and route verification capabilities of the automated type reconnaissance vehicle.
In steel mills, AGVs are used for furnace charge delivery, reducing the labor intensity of workers. In nuclear power plants and places where nuclear radiation is utilized for preservation and storage, AGVs are used for delivery of items to avoid dangerous radiation. In film and film warehouses, AGVs can accurately and reliably deliver materials and semi-finished products in a dark environment.
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