AGV is the English abbreviation of Automatic Guided Vehicle, also known as unmanned guided vehicle. The body of the AGV trolley is equipped with automatic guidance devices such as electromagnetic or optical, and has the function of loading moving and transporting items along the specified driving path.
AGV does not require manual driving, operates automatically, and has a high degree of automation. Controlled by computers, electronic control equipment, lasers, etc., when raw materials are needed in the production process, the staff makes a request to the computer terminal, and the request is finally accepted and executed by the AGV under the control of the AGV system, and the raw materials are delivered to the designated location. Also called AGV robot. The characteristics of AGV make AGV play an important role in the logistics and transportation industry.
In the 1950s, the world's first AGV was converted from a tractor-trailer with a carriage to transport goods along wires arranged in the air in a grocery warehouse. Since then, traction AGVs have gradually been applied in factories and warehouses.
When the AGV developed in the 1970s, the navigation method was no longer an obvious wire in the air to control the driving path. A wire was buried underground to control the operation of the AGV by sensing the electromagnetic frequency generated by the wire.
By the late 1980s, navigation changed again. The AGV navigation method introduces wireless guidance technology, such as laser guidance or inertial guidance technology, which greatly improves the flexibility and accuracy of the AGV.
In addition, the types of AGVs are also diversified, and technological improvements have improved the efficiency of AGVs. AGV does not require labor and can improve work efficiency. It has developed rapidly in countries with high labor costs such as Europe and the United States.
Now, AGV is not only the core equipment of automated logistics, but the AGV system has gradually developed into one of the largest professional branches in the logistics system, showing a trend of industrialization. And with the innovation of technology, the application scope of AGV is not limited to the logistics and transportation industry, and has also been reused in other industries.
