Title :
Developments in the measuring of the absolute position of automated guided vehicles
Author :
Basran, J.S. ; Petriu, E.M. ; Groen, Frans C A
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
The authors discuss the real-time aspects of the absolute position measurement of an AGV (automated guided vehicle) whose guidepath has been encoded with a pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS). In particular, the problem of pseudorandom-to-natural-binary code conversion and the resulting improved AGV navigation are discussed. Different approaches to the code conversion process are examined, and a cost analysis of the different approaches is presented
Keywords :
automatic guided vehicles; binary sequences; code convertors; economics; encoding; position measurement; AGV; absolute position measurement; automated guided vehicles; cost analysis; navigation; pseudorandom binary sequence; pseudorandom-to-natural-binary code conversion; Binary sequences; Encoding; Environmental economics; Feedback; Flexible manufacturing systems; Informatics; Modems; Navigation; Position measurement; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1989. IMTC-89. Conference Record., 6th IEEE
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
DOI :
10.1109/IMTC.1989.36835
