Automated Guided Vehicle developed by the Young and the Aspiring - Take a look

25 Nov 2017 POSTED BY Rahul Mathur

We at SPRW brought together a group of young makers from varying backgrounds, interests, and skill levels.

These following members of our community;

1) S Sanjayan

2) Roshan

3) Abhishek S

4) Harshul B

5) Athish Hariharan

With help of our mentors and series of webinars and physical meet-ups, these young makers have built a feature of Data logging through Wi-Fi on the Micro AGV. It is a highly useful feature which enables to get real-time inputs from various sensors and transmit the data to the server using WiFi.

It was an excellent opportunity for them to learn and make lot of things, to name a few;

Experience of working on a industrial robot.
Learning new technologies
Inspiration of being Maker.
Developing the Social & Soft Skills
A connection to fellow makers, community and to make friends.
Problem Solving skills

About Micro AGV !!

Micro AGV ( Automatic Guided Vehicles ) solutions will boost your productivity, reduce product damage, and optimize your facility, reducing costs and increasing efficiency and profitability.

AGV's are gaining its popularity because of all such features and benefits. Researchers across the globe are working on various upgrades and applications wherein the AGV can be utilized.

Working on such a platform is a dream come true. Young Maker's of SPRW are working on such platform from there childhood. Right from getting the industrial requirement till its deployment there are a lot of opportunities which can lead towards a dream.

SPRW Young Makers are living such a dream when they worked on Micro AGV which will be deployed at QUALCOMM offices across Globe. It serves various purposes such as testing signal strengths at various positions.

Features & Control !!

The SPRW Micro AGV platform provides a complete solution for warehouse automation and material handling research needs. Equipped with array of sensors like Ultrasonic and SHARP IR sensors gives good obstacle/human detection capabilities.

Autonomous path follower
Customized Grid follower
Auto stop on obstacle detection
In-built balance charging unit
Low battery indication
Charging Auto Cut-off

Why AGVs ?

There are several areas where AGVs are an ideal solution for the following conditions:

Non value-added material movement applications
Transport in challenging or less operator-friendly environments
Applications requiring steady and continuous throughput
Where available labour pools are shrinking
Repetitive transport, or mid- to long-distance travel areas
Material flows with a large number of buffer locations
Complex production flows
As a reliable, consistent interface to and from automated warehouses (AS/RS), WIP (Work-in-process) production, and shipping

Benefits of AGVs

Reallocation of available labour and reduced overtime and turnover costs
Damage: Elimination of facility and equipment damage by conventional fork trucks
Shipping Accuracy: Reduction in mis-shipments and product loss
Energy: Potential savings associated with lights-out operations
Safety: Elimination of fork truck related accidents
Flexibility: Capable of interfacing to a variety of stands, automation, manufacturing operations

AGV Functionality

AGVs support many types of movements within the manufacturing warehouse or distribution facility.

Receiving to warehouse
Manufacturing to warehouse
Warehouse to manufacturing
Work cell to work cell
Warehouse to picking
Picking to shipping
Long haul transportation
Transport in production Storage & retrieval
End-of-line transport
Trailer loading/unloading

Where is it deployed!!

Micro AGV's are been deployed in various industries and warehouses Amazon, Alibaba, Flipkart, etc

About the new Feature!!

The robot can be easily programmed using our GUI based programming platform or Arduino IDE. The robot is equipped with array of magnetic sensors to precisely track the magnetic tape. Power packed with Arduino Due controller which provides 12 Bit ADC resolution for precise magnetic tape tracking.

The charging dock gives an advantage of automated charging which enables you to provide 24 X 7 AGV operation using multiple robots.

It has been upgraded with another Feature that is Sensors Data logging through Wi-Fi It is a highly useful feature which enables to get real time inputs from various sensors and transmit the data through the server using WiFi.

Take a look at the video below,

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