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The PAN-Robots Project
Advanced Automated Guided Vehicle Systems
for Industrial Logistics
By Lorenzo Sabattini, Mika Aikio, Patric Beinschob, Markus Boehning, Elena Cardarelli, Valerio Digani,
Annette Krengel, Massimiliano Magnani, Szilard Mandici, Fabio Oleari, Christoph Reinke,
Davide Ronzoni, Christian Stimming, Robert Varga, Andrei Vatavu, Sergi Castells Lopez,
Cesare Fantuzzi, Aki Mäyrä, Sergiu Nedevschi, Cristian Secchi, and Kay Fuerstenberg
I
n modern manufacturing plants, automation is widely adopted in the production phases, which
leads to a high level of productivity and efficiency. However, the same level of automation is generally
not achieved in logistics, typically performed by human operators and manually driven vehicles. In
fact, even though automated guided vehicles (AGVs) have been used for a few decades for goods
transportation in industrial environments [1], they do not yet represent a widespread solution and
are typically applied only in specific scenarios.
A remarkable example is the Amazon Robotics system [2], in which AGVs are utilized for logistics
in e-commerce warehouses. While this solution is very effective for this kind of application, it is worth
noting that it can not be directly applied to material handling in generic factories. What makes this
system unique is that the AGVs move in a constrained environment, where other entities are not
allowed [3]. This makes the system not applicable to mixed environments shared by human operators,
manually driven vehicles, and AGVs (Figure 1).
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2017.2700325
Date of publication: 10 November 2017
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