Avoiding of obstacles in operating space of mobile robotized vehicle

The progress in designing flexible manufacturing systems (functional and spatial integration) has resulted in the design of hetero-archic structures of manufacturing systems. The current concept of these structures is still closely related to conventional solutions of the workshop area. The near future will bring new views of the spatial arrangement, and application of mobile robotized vehicles (MRV) in these systems. In the development of MRV which are expected to work in rapidly changing or not fully known conditions, it is one of the most difficult tasks to achieve automatic planning of paths. Changes occur mostly when MRV systems work in different spaces. Many obstacles are static (walls, machines, etc.) but there are also moving obstacles such as other vehicles. Two qualitatively different strategies of avoiding obstacles are described-the cross-sectional and the cross-sectional-angular. The considered strategies are compared on the basis of simulation outputs and the selected simulational outputs are given