Abbreviation of AGV?
Automated Guided Vehicle
What is AGV?
A system that travels around a facility in a predetermined course. An automated guided vehicle (AGV) is a motorised vehicle that transports a load through a manufacturing, assembly, or warehousing facility. An AGV can have any shape a customer need to meet their application requirements.
Types of Automated Guided Vehicles
There are many different types of agv vehicles in use today.
Automated Guided Carts
An AGC is a simple AGV system with limited automation that moves along a pre-determined path to execute repetitive tasks by following a painted strip on the floor. To save money on labour, AGV carts are frequently utilised in sorting, storage, and cross-docking applications.
Unit Load Carriers
These AGV transfer carts are designed to transport individual parts or products, as well as a pallet or tote laden with various things, using specialised equipment.
Heavy Towing Carriers
These heavy-load AGVs are used to deliver big amounts of freight over extended distances within a large facility without the need for an operator and on a predetermined route. This path can be changed easily by repositioning the AGV’s floor tape or paint.
Forklift and Towing AGVs
Towing AGVs are automated guided vehicle robot carts meant to operate as warehousing stock robots, pulling orders from heights using forks or other custom gear.
Tugger AGVs
A tugger AGV transports heavy loads from point A to point B with the help of trailers loaded with goods or parts. While travelling through a plant, factory, or warehouse, these tugger automated guided vehicles can make many pre-determined stops.
How does it travel on its own?
Using magnetic tape, which necessitates the use of sensors or a painted line, which is then followed by the AGV’s laser guidance system.
Gyroscopic navigation controls, which use sensors to track transponders embedded in the manufacturing floor, are another type of AGV navigation control.
LiDAR, which uses sensors that broadcast laser pulses to determine the distance between the AGV and objects sharing its space, also requires no infrastructure. The information is used to construct a 360-degree map of the facility, which allows the AGV to make its way around it while avoiding impediments.
Where can you find Automated Guided Vehicles?
- Automotive Assembly
- Food Processing
- Warehousing & Distribution
- Hospitals
- Aerospace
- Pharmaceutical and many more
Benefits of AGV
- Excellent Flexibility
- Reduce Labour Expenses
- Adapting to different environments
- Eliminates unwanted time
- Easily Trackable
