A Review of Recent Advances in Automated Guided Vehicle Technologies: Integration Challenges and Research Areas for 5G-Based Smart Manufacturing Applications
| Autor: | Alexander C. Smith, Dan Sun, Weimin Liu, Patrick G. Mcbride, Windsor P. Thomas, Anthony Ng'oma, Mason Ng, Dave Hitesh, David Joseph Kuhn, Steven C. Buonavita, Jason D. Mcghinnis, Nickolus A. Looper, Matthew Ramsey, Craig Cerasi, Grethel Mulroy, Emmanuel Oyekanlu, Michael G. Shultz |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0209 industrial biotechnology
General Computer Science Industry 4.0 Computer science Intelligent factory Automated guided vehicle ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS 02 engineering and technology Lean manufacturing 020901 industrial engineering & automation 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering General Materials Science smart manufacturing industry 4.0 business.industry 020208 electrical & electronic engineering General Engineering Software deployment factory of the future autonomous industrial equipment Systems engineering Factory (object-oriented programming) The Internet lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering business lcsh:TK1-9971 5G Fleet management |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Access, Vol 8, Pp 202312-202353 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2169-3536 |
| Popis: | In industrial environments, over several decades, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) have served to improve efficiencies of intralogistics and material handling tasks. However, for system integrators, the choice and effective deployment of improved, suitable and reliable communication and control technologies for these unmanned vehicles remains a very challenging task. Specifics of communication for AGVs and AMRs imposes stringent performance requirements on latency and reliability of communication links which many existing wireless technologies struggle to satisfy. In this paper, a review of latest AGVs and AMRs research results in the past decade is presented. The review encompasses results from different past and present research domains of AGVs. In addition, performance requirements of communication networks in terms of their latencies and reliabilities when they are deployed for AGVs and AMRs coordination, control and fleet management in smart manufacturing environments are discussed. Integration challenges and limitations of present state-of-the-art AGV and AMR technologies when those technologies are used for facilitating AGV-based smart manufacturing and factory of the future applications are also thoroughly discussed. The paper also present a thorough discussion of areas in need of further research regarding the application of 5G networks for AGVs and AMRs fleet management in smart manufacturing environments. In addition, novel integration ideas by which tactile Internet, 5G network slicing and virtual reality applications can be used to facilitate AGV and AMR based factory of the future (FoF) and smart manufacturing applications were motivated. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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