Vision-based intelligent forklift Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV)

This paper develops a new vision-based intelligent forklift Automatic Guided Vehicle (A GV) to perform various transporting tasks in factories and warehouses for improving the quality and efficiency as well as saving the manpower in manufacturing and service industries. Based on a vision-based adaptive localization algorithm with the global pose correction and a visual servo motion controller, the automatic driving function of the A GV can be realized. Experiments conducted in a factory validate performance of the vision-based intelligent forklift A GV.