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Semi-autonomous vehicles with routing flexibility – functionality and application areas

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  • Sandor Ujvari
  • Olli-Pekka Hilmola

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Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) systems are standard automated items in production and warehousing today. However, studies have rarely examined a more advanced form of AGVs called Semi-Autonomous Vehicles (SAVs), which have a higher sophistication of task completion and routing flexibility. This research presents SAVs in an industrial development case study. Using simulation, the route-keeping ability of SAVs with two types of guidance techniques is being studied. The results show that dual-navigation SAVs can provide the needed flexibility for routing. Using wire guidance and dead reckoning, both very well-established techniques, the SAVs' performance is, within certain limits, quite comparable to the AGVs with more advanced and expensive navigation techniques.

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  • Sandor Ujvari & Olli-Pekka Hilmola, 2009. "Semi-autonomous vehicles with routing flexibility – functionality and application areas," International Journal of Services and Operations Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(4), pages 444-462.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijsoma:v:5:y:2009:i:4:p:444-462
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