AGV refers to a transport vehicle equipped with electromagnetic or optical automatic guidance devices, which can travel along the specified guidance path, and has safety protection and various load transfer functions. It is one of the most active fields of science and technology development, which integrates the research achievements of sensor technology, information processing, computer engineering, automatic control engineering, artificial intelligence and other disciplines.
With the continuous improvement of robot performance and the rapid development of logistics and 3C industries, AGV has been widely used in industries, agriculture, transportation, medical care, services and other fields. Therefore, mobile robot technology has received widespread attention from all countries in the world.
Broad application prospect and promising market scale：
At present, the automobile industry, 3C industry, tobacco industry and logistics industry are the most widely used fields of AGV mobile robots.
According to the data, as of 2018, 29,600 new AGV mobile robots have been added to the Chinese market, a 35.22% increase over 2017. The sales volume of the new AGV mobile robots market has reached 4.25 billion yuan, a 49% growth rate over 2017. It is estimated that the overall growth rate of the industry in the next few years will be about 20%. In the next five years, the scale of the Chinese mobile robot market will reach about 14 billion yuan, and the industrial development prospects will be huge.
What are the advantages of AGV?
As one of the key equipment of the modern warehousing system, AGV has the characteristics of high degree of automation, sensitivity, safety, etc. It greatly improves the working conditions and environment, improves the level of automatic production, effectively liberates the labor productivity, reduces the labor intensity of workers, reduces the staffing, optimizes the production structure, and saves human, material, and financial resources.
In the automated logistics system, AGV, compared with other equipment commonly used in material transportation, has the advantages of no need to lay rails, support frames and other fixed devices, and is not limited by the site, road and space. It can fully reflect its automation and flexibility, and achieve efficient, economic and flexible unmanned production.
Innovative technology for precise positioning to achieve arbitrary path walking:
As a branch of wheeled mobile robot, AGV's key technology is positioning and navigation. With the development of various technologies, the guidance technology of AGV is also improving. At present, the commonly used guidance methods are: electromagnetic guidance, tape guidance, ribbon guidance, etc.
The emergence of AGV has greatly reduced the intensity of manual labor, reduced the high human cost, and made the logistics industry more intelligent and automated.
In the future, AGV will integrate with multi-sensor to maintain a high cost performance ratio, expand its application range and achieve more automatic operations. In the face of the global smart trend, AGV will have great prospects!