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Docking solutions for smart autonomous mobile units
| Resumo: | Docking solutions are key in the development of smart autonomous vehicles for industrial applications. Throughout the course of every autonomous vehicle workflow inside a factory, there will be moments where parking or picking cargo is needed. As these maneuvers require a precise positioning, without a correct approach, the maneuvers become ineffective jeopardizing all the automation of the process and as result, the maneuver success. Collaborating with the team of the sub-project P24 ”Autonomous Milk-Runs” result of a partnership between University of Minho and Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal S.A., this dissertation aims to conceive and develop docking maneuvers solutions for one of the prototype smart autonomous units, the stacker vehicles. In Bosch’s Braga Plant (BrgP) factory stacker vehicles are required to deliver packagings material and move finished goods within different areas on the warehouse. Stackers will then need to pick the products placed on pallets at the production lines end as the established workflow requires. This area consists in a long and narrow corridor where the stacker vehicles will need to maneuver correctly in order to pick the targeted pallets signalized by logistics. To develop a docking solution, the study of mobile vehicles kinematics, the development of behavioral based dynamics and the implementation of a pallet detection algorithm was needed to match the factory workflow and requirements. The proposed solution allows the stacker vehicles to respect their workspace constraints, with docking capabilities under multiple circumstances. |
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| Autores principais: | Cunha, João Pedro Sousa Mendes da |
| Assunto: | Autonomous navigation Docking Mobile robots Flexibility Pallet detection Navegação autónoma Acostagem Robôs móveis Flexibilidade Deteção de paletes |
| Ano: | 2017 |
| 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: | Docking solutions are key in the development of smart autonomous vehicles for industrial applications. Throughout the course of every autonomous vehicle workflow inside a factory, there will be moments where parking or picking cargo is needed. As these maneuvers require a precise positioning, without a correct approach, the maneuvers become ineffective jeopardizing all the automation of the process and as result, the maneuver success. Collaborating with the team of the sub-project P24 ”Autonomous Milk-Runs” result of a partnership between University of Minho and Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal S.A., this dissertation aims to conceive and develop docking maneuvers solutions for one of the prototype smart autonomous units, the stacker vehicles. In Bosch’s Braga Plant (BrgP) factory stacker vehicles are required to deliver packagings material and move finished goods within different areas on the warehouse. Stackers will then need to pick the products placed on pallets at the production lines end as the established workflow requires. This area consists in a long and narrow corridor where the stacker vehicles will need to maneuver correctly in order to pick the targeted pallets signalized by logistics. To develop a docking solution, the study of mobile vehicles kinematics, the development of behavioral based dynamics and the implementation of a pallet detection algorithm was needed to match the factory workflow and requirements. The proposed solution allows the stacker vehicles to respect their workspace constraints, with docking capabilities under multiple circumstances. |
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