Publication: Automatic guided vehicle
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Date
2009-04-01
Authors
Mohd Sopian, Mohd Idzadin
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This project is design and fabricates the system of an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV). The AGV prototype is a moving load mobile robot, which is purposely used in laboratory environment condition. The load is practically moved from one destination to another by automatically or manually commanded by operator. The AGV is fabricated from the plywood, child toy car and et cetera. The plywood is use for making a board as the main structure. Meanwhile, the child toy car parts are serving as AGV collective part component. This AGV prototype was utilizing the two motor types, which is the DC brush motors and the car power window motor, which is both can be rotated clockwise or anti clockwise. The DC motor is use for drive the AGV movement forward or rearward movement. For the turning movement, by utilizing the lever concept with the car power window motor rotation as the steering movement with help of two control disc plates with infrared slotted switch. For the carrier drive commands, it was generate by the main on-board controller. The main on-board controller is the main brain that controls all the activity of the AGV and user controller was working as the user interface platform. This on-board controller type was the non-intelligent type (semi automatic), which is not able to make decisions and requires information. The AGV prototype project were use 6volt and 12 volt recharge batteries as power resource and the batteries recharge are only applied when the AGV was shutting off.