Title :
An Automatic Guidance System of a Self-Controlled Vehicle
Author :
Hongo, Takero ; Arakawa, Hideo ; Sugimoto, Gunji ; Tange, Koichi ; Yamamoto, Yuzo
Author_Institution :
Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc., 41-1, Aza Yokomichi, Oaza Nagakute, Nagakute-cho, Aicha-gun, Aichi-ken, 480-11, Japan.
Abstract :
An automatically guided vehicle, traveling without fixed guide ways, has been developed. In this paper, the construction of the vehicle, the control algorithm, and its general performance are described.
Keywords :
Automatic control; Dead reckoning; Error correction; Land vehicles; Microcomputers; Mobile robots; Navigation; Position measurement; Road vehicles; Wheels;
Journal_Title :
Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TIE.1987.350916
