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Automated driving: an approach to automated guided vehicles in a controlled environment
| Resumo: | The growing need for process optimisation is one of the main drivers of technological modernisation in companies. Process automation has been one of the main initiatives in this modernisation task. In many scenarios, the movement of any kind of vehicles or other moving objects requires human hands. In this context, this Master’s Thesis, included in the fifth year of the Integrated Master in Informatics Engineering in the University of Minho, reports the work developed in a business context with the help of Deloitte Technologys S.A. that welcomed the student in a curricular internship program. The aim is to develop an implementation of of a simulator of automated guided vehicles in a controlled environment, which can reveal itself as an initiative for the modernisation of the logistic process of moving mobile objects or vehicles. In order to develop the Master’s Project, a work methodology was outlined. This methodology is supported on four crucial stages to reach the proposed objectives: documentary, proposal, pre-development and development. The documentary analysis was made to develop a better understanding of the context and to study other developed projects and tools that could be necessary for the proposal and development. In the solution proposal we started by dividing the problem in several components, in a kind of "divide and conquer" method. During this process, a conceptual map was developed, which will be analysed in the document and will guide us to the first Conceptual Architecture Diagram. The next step is through the analysis of the Conceptual Architecture Diagram to study which modules will be out of the scope of what is necessary for the full functioning of the Master project, taking certain components as assumptions and substituting some modules by other solutions, so the development can be faster however in a way to not neglect the required functionality for the full operation of the solution. After these steps, the development of the solution will follow, putting into practice all the knowledge acquired in the previous stages. The Master’s Project culminated in five micro-services: Vehicle, Controller, Map, Vehicle/Sessions Micro-Service and Alert; and a web application that allows the user to check with a GUI data about vehicles, sessions, alerts and the map of the controlled environment. These micro-services and the web application working simultaneously allow having a vehicle simulator automatically driven in a controlled environment. |
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| Autores principais: | Lopes, Luís Francisco Mendes |
| Assunto: | Automated guided vehicles Automated driving Path calculation Controlled environment Impact prediction Veículos automaticamente conduzidos Condução automatizada Cálculo de rota Ambiente controlado Previsão de impacto |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | The growing need for process optimisation is one of the main drivers of technological modernisation in companies. Process automation has been one of the main initiatives in this modernisation task. In many scenarios, the movement of any kind of vehicles or other moving objects requires human hands. In this context, this Master’s Thesis, included in the fifth year of the Integrated Master in Informatics Engineering in the University of Minho, reports the work developed in a business context with the help of Deloitte Technologys S.A. that welcomed the student in a curricular internship program. The aim is to develop an implementation of of a simulator of automated guided vehicles in a controlled environment, which can reveal itself as an initiative for the modernisation of the logistic process of moving mobile objects or vehicles. In order to develop the Master’s Project, a work methodology was outlined. This methodology is supported on four crucial stages to reach the proposed objectives: documentary, proposal, pre-development and development. The documentary analysis was made to develop a better understanding of the context and to study other developed projects and tools that could be necessary for the proposal and development. In the solution proposal we started by dividing the problem in several components, in a kind of "divide and conquer" method. During this process, a conceptual map was developed, which will be analysed in the document and will guide us to the first Conceptual Architecture Diagram. The next step is through the analysis of the Conceptual Architecture Diagram to study which modules will be out of the scope of what is necessary for the full functioning of the Master project, taking certain components as assumptions and substituting some modules by other solutions, so the development can be faster however in a way to not neglect the required functionality for the full operation of the solution. After these steps, the development of the solution will follow, putting into practice all the knowledge acquired in the previous stages. The Master’s Project culminated in five micro-services: Vehicle, Controller, Map, Vehicle/Sessions Micro-Service and Alert; and a web application that allows the user to check with a GUI data about vehicles, sessions, alerts and the map of the controlled environment. These micro-services and the web application working simultaneously allow having a vehicle simulator automatically driven in a controlled environment. |
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