Autonomous navigation in a manufacturing environment Academic Article

abstract

• Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) that incorporate transport robots are currently dominated by the use of automatic guided vehicles (AGV's). These AGV's generally require significant restructuring of the workplace in order for them to be useful. The concept of flexibility in manufacturing is somewhat compromised by this strategy.Our previous work in mobile robots, resulting in the autonomous robot architecture (AuRA), is applied to the manufacturing domain. This approach, which is contrary to the AGV methodology, embeds significant amounts of knowledge (both environmental and behavioral) to ultimately give a mobile robot far greater latitude in interacting with its environment.This paper presents the motivation, simulation studies, and experimental results demonstrating the feasibility of migrating schema-based navigation into a FMS. In particular, the creation of a docking motor schema to accomplish interaction with the workplace is detailed. 1990 IEEE

authors

• Murphy, Robin

published proceedings

• IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

author list (cited authors)

• Arkin, R. C., & Murphy, R. R.

citation count

• 121

complete list of authors

• Arkin, RC||Murphy, RR

publication date

• January 1990

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering  Journal

keywords

• 9 Industry, Innovation And Infrastructure

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/70.59355

start page

• 445

end page

• 454

volume

• 6

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/70.59355

user-defined tag

• 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure