Autonomous Guided Vehicles
Methods and Models for Optimal Path Planning
Authors: Fazlollahtabar, Hamed, Saidi-Mehrabad, Mohammad
Free Preview- Offers a comprehensive review on methods for path planning optimization in autonomous guided vehicles
- Describes new models for scheduling and routing autonomous guided vehicles
- Covers advance industrial applications, especially in the area of manufacturing
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This book provides readers with extensive information on path planning optimization for both single and multiple Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs), and discusses practical issues involved in advanced industrial applications of AGVs. After discussing previously published research in the field and highlighting the current gaps, it introduces new models developed by the authors with the goal of reducing costs and increasing productivity and effectiveness in the manufacturing industry. The new models address the increasing complexity of manufacturing networks, due for example to the adoption of flexible manufacturing systems that involve automated material handling systems, robots, numerically controlled machine tools, and automated inspection stations, while also considering the uncertainty and stochastic nature of automated equipment such as AGVs. The book discusses and provides solutions to important issues concerning the use of AGVs in the manufacturing industry, including material flow optimization with AGVs, programming manufacturing systems equipped with AGVs, reliability models, the reliability of AGVs, routing under uncertainty, and risks involved in AGV-based transportation. The clear style and straightforward descriptions of problems and their solutions make the book an excellent resource for graduate students. Moreover, thanks to its practice-oriented approach, the novelty of the findings and the contemporary topic it reports on, the book offers new stimulus for researchers and practitioners in the broad field of production engineering.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Models for AGVs’ Scheduling and Routing
Pages 1-15
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Analytical Material Flow Model for AGV System
Pages 17-25
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Nonlinear Stochastic Model for AGV System
Pages 27-39
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Reliability Model for AGV
Pages 41-56
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Uncertain Optimal Path for AGV System
Pages 57-77
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Autonomous Guided Vehicles
- Book Subtitle
- Methods and Models for Optimal Path Planning
- Authors
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- Hamed Fazlollahtabar
- Mohammad Saidi-Mehrabad
- Series Title
- Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
- Series Volume
- 20
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-14747-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-14747-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-14746-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-36823-8
- Series ISSN
- 2198-4182
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 203
- Number of Illustrations
- 29 b/w illustrations
- Topics
